odd chick sexing technique, anyone seen this?

[Chickielady]

this duck and run when you throw a sock over the flock is not fighting really, it shows more of who is a scaredy chicken and who is not, if anything, overcome by curiosity I believe moreso than wanting to fight.

 

[Chickielady]

thanks Cheryl for the video, can u beleive how they toss the chicks about ?
Poor babies !
And we are so careful with them.
They are cbviously alot hardier than we realize.
Still, poor babies !
On conveyor belts !
Shot through air tubes !

I tried the feather thing before and it didn't seem to work.
Some have to be vent sexed.

 

[cherylcohen]

Chickielady, I KNOW! I was mortified even when i saw them all sitting so close together in the tray, then the conveyor belt and then the shoots! Oh man if that doesn't send a chick into the psychiatrist, I don't know what will!

 

[Feathered Wings]

I know how to do the Chicken flipping method with almost 100% accurracy I have experimented with it from 1 day old to 2 week olds and even some I knew the sex of and it worked all times.
Learned it from a Man that worked in chicken houses for 50 years and I can attest it works

Anyone want to know how it's done and no harm comes to the chick in any way

 

[cherylcohen]

PLEASE! tell us!

 

[rhoda_bruce]

yes. I must confess to being somewhat intrigued. I hope a good verbal discription can occur. If not, I would love to see it on youtube.

 

[Peep_Show]

When picking out the fuzzy turkey poults at the feed store, I always went for the ones that were the loudest.... Yep, pretty much all toms!

(Boys.... Sigh)

 

[Feathered Wings]

Okay but just know I have had alot of Nay Sayers on this but they just do the technique wrong and say it's inaccurate done right it works.

Take your chick and turn him over on his back so he is resting in the palm of your hand with his head between your thumb and index finger.
Hold his neck/head gently sometimes they will lay there without you holding their head now let him begin to relax as he relax's you will notice the chick will either stick out one leg or both.
You should get the results quickly I have had little roosters lay flat out like a board and hens stick out that one leg strait as can be

Hens will stick out only one leg doesn't matter which one
roosters will stick both legs strait out

Donot reflip or try to hold your hand on the chick trying to get the results you want as you will get a false outcome.
If the chick thrashes about put him down and try later.


I have tested this time and again and this gentleman picked me out 10 chicks out of a strait run bin at TSC he said it was 5 hens and 5 roosters they turned out to be 6 hens and 4 roosters.

 

[swedishfish]

I tried the "scruff of the neck" test with my chicks. Since I didn't mark them or anything, I dont' know how accurate I was. But when I did the test I had two roos and two hens. turned out that way too.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Okay. I will try the one leg/two leg thing with my current incubation results. All the roosters get a black marker on their left leg and I'll see how well I will do.