How To Sex A Chicken - Wisdom From An Old Timer

[Davaroo]

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You don't know what a pendulum is? Seriously?

 

[Opa]

I have found that after about 20-28 weeks of carefully observation that the birds that eggs come out of are hens. I have had 100% success with this system.

 

[ClairedeLune]

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50% + or - margin for error though.

Because I have heard of hens crowing and roosters laying eggs.

 

[lavacaw]

Thought I was on BYC...seems I got Comedy Central by mistake!

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[ladyj]

better than sexing geese. u have to lay them on the table on their back and open the cloaca if it is boy they have a spiral and a girl has a vent

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I'm going to grab my DH by the neck and flip him over to see if this works. If he sticks his legs out, I'm going to be vastly disappointed

 

[Sitka]

Mike Rowe Dirty Jobs episode about sexing chicks at Murray McMurray:

 

[chickenlickin8]

I tried the wing method of sexing when the chicks are one or two days old. The female's wing feathers will be uneven and the male's will be straight across even and short in length.

I tried it and so far so good. It looks like the ones I sexed are girls. They are almost two months old.

 

[IDIOT HUSBAND]

We had a very wise farmer turned remodeler tell us how to sex our chicks when they come in. He said hold a mirror in front of them the ones that stand in front of the mirror are hens and the ones that don't aren't.

 

[2txmedics]

Heres the Discovery video on sexing a chicken....by feathers....