TheTwoRoos
Crowing
- Sep 25, 2015
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Making this to help out and because I’m bored,but Also because I have actually been accurate on all my roosters and hens do I must be doing something right.
I get chicks almost every spring and right off the bat begin guessing their genders.A lot of what I base off is behavior,although it’s not 100% guarantee it actually a great way to sex chicks.
I usually begin knowing for sure I have a boy around two months.By atleast four weeks their probabaly going to have a red comb and waddles and their gonna be the obvious ones to stand out,
Comparison of a 3-4 week old male to female:
Cockerel(Boy)
Pullet (Girl)
Obviously,the males stand out the most.
Bigger in size is another good way to detect sex.Males are generally bigger then females.In height,weight,leg and feet size,and obviously comb and waddle size.This isn’t saying pullets will be relatively small,because soem birds can have big bodies and combs and waddles as babies and still be pullets,although I haven’t seen a pullet yet carry male looks as chicks.
Fighting.All chicks fights,but what I have observed is males fight a lot worse.Instead of just running and bumping chest and occasionally a small peck,all my roosters seem to run and jab each other with their legs,rip fetahers out,grab each others combs and waddles,and it pretty much carries until one or all the birds have established a pecking order.Males also spar longer then pullets,as I noticed pullets won’t last long and can actually get along and don’t have nearly as bad as a temper a male chicken can have.
Mating.I also use to see boys as young as three week raise their heads and step on the pullets back,all I can assume is they were making their first attempts to breed but they usually just do it for fun,and it usually calms down as they age until they reach teen hood,usually four or five months,then they really begin breeding.This type of sighting is something a lot won’t see,I only witnessed it when they rest and all the hens are laying flat on he floor.
Body features.I have noticed boys usually stand at a upright slant,while hens are more at an flat stance.
Feathering,hens and roosters have two types of different fetaheirng.Males feathers are pointy at the end and usually glow,while hens feathers are round at the ends.
You will start noticing this fetaheirng around three months is generally when the fetahers grow in on the male,but I have noticed in my boys they came in extremely early.It seems to be male so hatch out from my chickens not from hatcheries or tsc,so it’s probably something genetic because one of my boys is about seven weeks is already growing in his male feathering and is extremely early.
But that’s what I use and am usually correct,that’s what has worked for me.
I get chicks almost every spring and right off the bat begin guessing their genders.A lot of what I base off is behavior,although it’s not 100% guarantee it actually a great way to sex chicks.
I usually begin knowing for sure I have a boy around two months.By atleast four weeks their probabaly going to have a red comb and waddles and their gonna be the obvious ones to stand out,
Comparison of a 3-4 week old male to female:
Cockerel(Boy)
Pullet (Girl)
Obviously,the males stand out the most.
Bigger in size is another good way to detect sex.Males are generally bigger then females.In height,weight,leg and feet size,and obviously comb and waddle size.This isn’t saying pullets will be relatively small,because soem birds can have big bodies and combs and waddles as babies and still be pullets,although I haven’t seen a pullet yet carry male looks as chicks.
Fighting.All chicks fights,but what I have observed is males fight a lot worse.Instead of just running and bumping chest and occasionally a small peck,all my roosters seem to run and jab each other with their legs,rip fetahers out,grab each others combs and waddles,and it pretty much carries until one or all the birds have established a pecking order.Males also spar longer then pullets,as I noticed pullets won’t last long and can actually get along and don’t have nearly as bad as a temper a male chicken can have.
Mating.I also use to see boys as young as three week raise their heads and step on the pullets back,all I can assume is they were making their first attempts to breed but they usually just do it for fun,and it usually calms down as they age until they reach teen hood,usually four or five months,then they really begin breeding.This type of sighting is something a lot won’t see,I only witnessed it when they rest and all the hens are laying flat on he floor.
Body features.I have noticed boys usually stand at a upright slant,while hens are more at an flat stance.
Feathering,hens and roosters have two types of different fetaheirng.Males feathers are pointy at the end and usually glow,while hens feathers are round at the ends.
You will start noticing this fetaheirng around three months is generally when the fetahers grow in on the male,but I have noticed in my boys they came in extremely early.It seems to be male so hatch out from my chickens not from hatcheries or tsc,so it’s probably something genetic because one of my boys is about seven weeks is already growing in his male feathering and is extremely early.
But that’s what I use and am usually correct,that’s what has worked for me.
