How can you tell a baby rooster from a pullet?

[cmom]

Do you have any pictures of the chicks you can post?

 

[fiddleblue]

This question leads to the question, how do professional chick sexers sex the chicks and tell, when a chick is only 1 day old, which sex it is?

 

[SallyF]

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Somewhere on You-tube, there is a video explaining this. I'll post the link if I can find it. It has something to do with the wing feathers, I think. Of course, this does not seem to be an exact science based on the number of people complaining that they ordered all female and got some males!

 

[SallyF]

http://www.howtodothings.com/pets-and-animals/a3887-how-to-determine-the-sex-of-baby-chickens.html

This isn't the video, but it explains different methods of sexing chicks. The feather method seems easiest, but you would have to have some training to do it. The vent inspection (#1) seems most likely to work for an amateur.

 

[buck431397]

So i have a couple 4.5 week old EE/ RIR babies. I've suspected for a while now that Annie and Cassie might be Andy and Cassie. One has a real pale barely there comb, the other has a pretty red and more pronoubnced comb. Probly a boy right? As far as their behavior goes i cant really tell any significant difference.

 

[thornoelle]

Here are a couple of pics of the chick in question. I hope this works as I have never posted pics here before.