How to tell the gender of a chick

[GrannyFran]

Can someone tell me how to tell the gender of a chick?

Thanks

 

[bethandjoeync]

really you have to get familiar with the breeds and tell tell signs. once you own chicks a few times and pick out the wrong ones! then you will start to figure it out

also some chicks develop faster than others and are easier to tell the gender quicker.

i would say go through some posts and read through reasons why people come up with answers on gender that they do. you will notice a patern that about everyone uses

 

[Whimsy]

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A friend of mine often go to a local swap/sale. We are the only women usually there selling livestock (chickens), so we get a lot of attention!!!
Here are some of the ways we are told to tell the sex of chicks:
Thread a needle hold the needle over chick, if it swing it is a girl / if it makes a circle it is a boy (OK I may have the directions wrong)

Hold the chick by the neck if it struggles it is a boy/ if it doesn't it is a girl

My favorite is how to tell from the egg. Hold the egg if the smaller end is rounded it is a girl / if it is pointy it is a boy. At the time my friend had a torpedo shaped egg so what is that.

We have learned to smile sweetly and nod our heads

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[bethandjoeync]

Quote:
A friend of mine often go to a local swap/sale. We are the only women usually there selling livestock (chickens), so we get a lot of attention!!!
Here are some of the ways we are told to tell the sex of chicks:
Thread a needle hold the needle over chick, if it swing it is a girl / if it makes a circle it is a boy (OK I may have the directions wrong)

Hold the chick by the neck if it struggles it is a boy/ if it doesn't it is a girl
My favorite is how to tell from the egg. Hold the egg if the smaller end is rounded it is a girl / if it is pointy it is a boy. At the time my friend had a torpedo shaped egg so what is that.

We have learned to smile sweetly and nod our heads

.

OMG hold them by the neck!!

 

[elmo]

Some breeds of chickens have sex linked colors, so you can easily tell by the color of the chick's feathers. If you know what you're looking for and have enough experience, you can tell the gender of a newly hatched chick by examining just inside its vent. That's the way they do it at the chicken factories, although it's an art not a science (they get it wrong a certain percentage of the time).

Aside from that, you have to wait for the chick to grow and start developing secondary sex characteristics, like the development of its comb. This is harder to do if you don't have other chicks of the same age and breed to compare.

If you're patient, one day the chicken will either crow or lay an egg. Then you'll know for sure!