New member....looking for some help/info

Hi everyone....I have just joined, although I constantly come here for help when I need it lol. Figured I should start a thread on a topic I have been having a lot of frustration with.....Vent sexing. Now please, to all the people that are going to tell me not to vent sex my birds, please save both our time and dont tell me what I should/should not do. I have always been very gentle with my birds, they are my babies and I would never want to hurt them. I am confident in my abilities and I am not hurting them. However, I can not seem to vent sex any age of chickens or guineas. I am good at sexing waterfowl, so I do know the basic idea of vent sexing pretty well, but I just cant seem to do it on a chicken or guinea because the pubic bones tend to get in the way of things. I have a pretty good feeling that this bump is located on the area of the vent closest to those bones? I am very interested in any pics of how to sex chickens in this manner. I know I am supposed to be looking for a bump in the vent area, but I am unsure on the exact location of the bump and I cannot seem to find any bump on any of my 5 known roos. Diagrams do not help me, I need to see it on an actual bird. Otherwise maybe someone could describe the location of this bump. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

 

Thanks for the welcomes ......I have read varying opinions about whether or not you can vent an adult bird, I personally have vented many ducks and they were all different ages and it was not an issue....I would assume that it would be the same for chickens as it is for ducks? I think it is just more difficult after 3 days old. I actually think its easier to vent sex ducks when they are older than 3 days old

 

ok thanks....like I said, Im new so I really was not sure where to put this. I am not sure how to move posts, but if it needs to be moved how do i do that? thanks