Old timer method - poll

[ScottM]

An old-timer says you can hold chicks up by the scruff of the neck (like you'd hold a baby kitten) and let their feet dangle. He says the males will pull their legs up while the females will always leave their legs dangling.

 

[Fireflyjunction]

Actually tried something similar to this on my 5 TSC chicks last spring!
I'd heard that if you hold them in your hands and lay them on their backs with their heads lower than their legs, boys will stick their legs out and girls will pull them in. I figured it couldn't hurt to give it a try. 4 of them pulled their legs up, but Wendy/Wendel put one leg out and one leg in.

Although rather bummed, since I can't keep a rooster in the city, I simply hoped for the best. Fast forward several months and all five GIRLS are egg laying machines!

 

[Lothiriel]

I was told you hold them upside down by the legs and if they fight and try to peck your fingers it's a boy.

Needless to say..... All my pullets do this, as well as the cockerels.

 

[Fred's Hens]

These things are farcical. Reminds me of the wedding ring on a string over a pregnant woman's stomach kind of thing. Hokum.

Oh, when walking on a sidewalk? Be careful. Don't step on a crack you'll break.........