I have to talk POLISH!

[K Epp]

Keep in mind its not good to hold them on their backs for long periods of time. Lots of people will say this is untrue. Maybe I'm just lucky when I pick them.

 

[trsturself]

I've also heard if you pick them up when they are just a few days old and let their feet dangle the pullets will relax and let their feet drop and the roo will fight and pick it's feet up. There's a page with pics somewhere on the web. People say this isn't very accurate either, but if you have nothing else, why not? lol!

 

[K Epp]

I always shoot for pullets and figure I will get at least one wrong. The first time I bought Polish I did pick one because it was a different color than the rest even though it had roo signs. It turned out to be the only cockerel. I did go back and buy a WCBlue roo to go with my pullet. Later I bought a set of SL. The pullet died. My WCBlack seems to ne bantam so I moved her to the bantam house for now. With the ones I bought today I should have a pair of GL, SL, WCBlue and two WCBlack pullets. I used this method on my Silkie and wound up with all pullets. It worked with Sebrights too. Like I said I may just be lucky.

 

[kbh82310]

I tried that with my silkies and out of 4 we thought we only had one roo but now nugget has me unsure. They will be 13 weeks sun and he is as big as my roo but has no red and I can't see any waddles but he has a puffy beard so it's really hard to see cause he can't sit still if I'm playing with his face. My other roo turned red at like 6 or 7 weeks and nugget has the same comb as my hen. The breeder thought I was crazy but still 2 out of 4 ain't bad! Better than all Roos!

 

[K Epp]

Some people look at the number of wing feathers they have. I even had a guy at another store tell me he felt under their wings in what would be their pit area for their testicles. Of course I thought he was crazy. He was trying to tell me a bend full of feathered out Cochins and Old English Bantam were mostly pullets. They were so big I could tell by the comb they were cockerels.

 

[K Epp]

He told me my way was internet hoodoo. I laughed and told him we would see who's hen crowed first. I don't swear by my way and just think I'm lucky. Those birds were clearly cockerels. Hoodoo or not I have learned a lot on here.

 

[winniem13]

Lesson learned:
DO NOT feed watermelon to all white polish! Ugh!

 

[trsturself]

He told me my way was internet hoodoo. I laughed and told him we would see who's hen crowed first. I don't swear by my way and just think I'm lucky. Those birds were clearly cockerels. Hoodoo or not I have learned a lot on here.

Funny, I tried it on mine and got the opposite reaction. The known roo held his legs even and the pullets held one out.

Lesson learned:
DO NOT feed watermelon to all white polish! Ugh!

LOL!

 

[NosiphoChooks]

Lesson learned:
DO NOT feed watermelon to all white polish! Ugh!

Haha! I had the same problem yesterday, with gooey strawberry yoghurt! Needless to say they were soggy, annoyed polish after they have been dunked and scrubbed!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

I've also heard if you pick them up when they are just a few days old and let their feet dangle the pullets will relax and let their feet drop and the roo will fight and pick it's feet up. There's a page with pics somewhere on the web. People say this isn't very accurate either, but if you have nothing else, why not? lol!

I have heard all these things too. Here is a new one I just heard; rounder eggs are pullets and longer eggs are cockerels. But the problem with all of these methods of pre-determining the sex of a chick is, they all have a chance of being right 50% of the time. This makes it hard to truly determine if they work. I guess in order for any method to be proven moderately effective, it would have to be consistently accurate much higher then 50% of the time.