Is three weeks too young to sex a chick?

[fluffycrow]

How do they get it right in Greece? Or do you just get a chicken and then wait and see?

Hatcheries sell at 6 weeks. That way you are getting what you want the vast majority of times. Feed stores do the same. Day old chicks aren't that common. If you do get them, they're basically all straight run. So you don't buy them with the presumption of gender. If you're hatching them yourself, then again you have no expectations of gender

 

[Holdthechicken]

Hatcheries sell at 6 weeks. That way you are getting what you want the vast majority of times. Feed stores do the same. Day old chicks aren't that common. If you do get them, they're basically all straight run. So you don't buy them with the presumption of gender. If you're hatching them yourself, then again you have no expectations of gender

I like that, seems like a better outcome as opposed to all these “accidental” cockerels.

 

[fluffycrow]

I like that, seems like a better outcome as opposed to all these “accidental” cockerels.

Yup, I too prefer it

 

[CreativeChicken08]

OP said "hybrid" black star. So I assume that means black star mix

One of my black star hens mated with either my easter egger roo or my mille fleur d'uucle roo, so it's a black star hybrid mix, even though black stars ARE already hybrids.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

You can only sex chicks at about six weeks old. Sometimes you can sex them earlier than that, but they have to be a fast-growing breed. Checking their wings will not work unless it is a breed and a bloodline bred specifically for that, which you likely will never find.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

One of my black star hens mated with either my easter egger roo or my mille fleur d'uucle roo, so it's a black star hybrid mix, even though black stars ARE already hybrids.

That would be called, simply, a mixed breed.

 

[CreativeChicken08]

That would be called, simply, a mixed breed.

Okay, I guess I thought hybrids and mixed breeds were the same, but thanks for the info!