I Want/ NEED a Rooster!

[chickaboo7]

My silkie babies are still looking for homes!!! I can bring them half way if you want.

 

[broncbuster07]

The easiest and best way to sex your chicks is by feeling the distance between their pelvic bones by putting your thumb on or just below their anus. It may seem gross but I guarantee if you pick up your chickens, or change their nesting or bedding material, you've already touched their feces. A cockerel's pelvic bones will be much closer together than a pullets because the pullets will have to lay eggs. This can be done at any age, and this is how they sex chicks at any hatchery.

 

[stilwellchick]

I can give you a beautiful sweet RIR roo, 11 weeks old. 913-897-3398

 

[DuckLady]

and this is how they sex chicks at any hatchery.

Sorry for continuing this off topic veering, but I need to correct this.
Sexing is done at hatcheries mostly by vent sexing. That is, experienced sexers look in the vent of newly hatched chicks to check the sex organs. This is the most accurate and widely used method at hatcheries.​

 

[broncbuster07]

OK, every hatchery I've ever been to uses the pelvic width technique. I guess we're old-fashioned down here, but in Texas and surrounding areas this is the most widely used method. I guarantee, if I sex a flock of chicks this way, it will be accurate. I was just trying to help you sex your chicks, didn't mean to open a can of worms.

I've used this method since I was 13 years old on day-old chicks and haven't missed one yet!

 

[silkiechicken]

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Not to pick out worms but I think the pelvis width thing is used for older birds once hormones kick in. You can start telling when they are a month or two old with the pelvis width. Feeling the plyability of the pelvis bones of a hen/pullet is also a good indicator of how well they are laying or if they are laying at all. I would think a day old chick male or female will have pelivis bones so small and close together that it wouldn't be useful, not to mention the big fluffy chick butts you'd have to try to feel arround on. *takes out the calipers*