Is it true what they say?

[Annie75]

That if you dangle a little chick by the 'scruff' of its neck and they either let their legs dangle down straight or pull them up will tell you if it's a girl or a boy?

 

[brahmabreeder]

I haven't really kept track but the one I did keep track did indeed end up turning out to be a boy. I think it is fairly accurate. I tried this when I got my Plymouth rocks and when I was doing it most of them( almost all of them

) said boy. Low and behold when they grew up I had 13 boys and 1 girl. That was after having to cull a few after they all got this weird disease.

 

[Pele]

No, it's an old-wives tale, and not a correct way of holding a chick. If it was actually accurate, the corporate egg industry wouldn't spend billions of dollars looking for other ways to accurately determine gender.

 

[salt and pepper]

I've tried it, and it sure wasn't accurate for me!!!

 

[Annie75]

Good. I'm glad it's not accurate. The little Japanese bantam I'm hoping will be a girl reckons it's a boy by this method. And you're right, it feels awful holding the chick this way. I won't do it again. Brahmabreeder you sound like me. It's a boy explosion when I hatch chicks!!