Ol' Hawiian trick to sexing 3 week olds

[ChookHappy]

Hey all and good evening! I heard the strangest thing tonight at work. One of my regulars is from Hawaii and used to host cock fights when she lived out there. I guess it's a big thing out there. Not so much here that I'm aware of and I personally wouldn't condone it but I digress. Anywho, I mentioned tonight that 3 of the 8 EE's I got recently ended up being roos. After this she mentioned that the way they sex them out there after 3 weeks if they haven't been sexed yet is by holding them by their heads and if the legs shoot straight down they are going to be a roo and if they pull their legs up and curl them into their body it's a pullet. She assured to me that this didn't hurt them. Has anyone ever heard of this? I wouldn't even know where to start with doing a search on this but I'm interested to know if this is common practice in some places.

 

[Spore]

Dat sounds like sum of da kine talk dat you get on da islands brah.

 

[Uzuri]

Heard of it all over the place, and it's an old wives tale.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

That trick only works after the Summer Solstice.

 

[artsyrobin]

another technique that works many times is lay the chick on its back in your hand, if it relaxes its a girl- it has worked for my BA and EE's, but i suspect it depends on the chicks personality

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Try it, record the results, and let us know! I smell an experiment!

 

[Keri78]

Cool!

I'm going to try it out!

What the heck???eck

 

[Mahonri]

... folk lore....

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Quote:
thats what i'm talking about.. but only the kama'aina would know that
;-)

 

[speckledhen]