Polish Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nippers]

I'm getting 7 chicks and 1 of them is a polish! I'm so excited! I'll post pics of her when I get her!

 

[lydzchix]

You will love your Polish. I have 6 chicks that will be 3 weeks old tomorrow and one is a silver-laced polish. She is sporting here punk rock look now. She and the others have grown so fast!

Enjoy your babies!

 

[WendyF]

You have to be a real expert to sex chickens at one day old for most breeds. They employ those experts at hatcheries, and its called vent sexing. Even they are not 100% right. @WendyF So here is a mature Polish (not mine). Those long fine pointy feathers hanging off of his lower back are the saddle feathers. Sometimes you can see the beginning of those developing before other male features are apparent. Polish roosters have the pooffy head feathers compared to the females more rounded crest, but you all probably knew that already.

Thank you! That was very helpful.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

You have to be a real expert to sex chickens at one day old for most breeds. They employ those experts at hatcheries, and its called vent sexing. Even they are not 100% right. @WendyF So here is a mature Polish (not mine). Those long fine pointy feathers hanging off of his lower back are the saddle feathers. Sometimes you can see the beginning of those developing before other male features are apparent. Polish roosters have the pooffy head feathers compared to the females more rounded crest, but you all probably knew that already.

actually, I talked to someone who sexed chicks at a hatchery, and she pulls out the wings and sexes them by the wing feathers. They dont vent.

 

[michellemire]

How do u knw which sex is which that's neat to knw

 

[frannyglass]

Amazing the change in my Georgette in 14 days. Those awkward teenage years. She is a love bug though.

2 days old

Today at 17 days.

Such a sweet chicken!

 

[scratch'n'peck]

actually, I talked to someone who sexed chicks at a hatchery, and she pulls out the wings and sexes them by the wing feathers. They dont vent.

I have heard about that method, too, I just didn't know it was done at hatcheries. I saw a feature on the show "Dirty Jobs" and some other show about vent sexing at a hatcheries. So I guess it depends on the hatchery.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

I have heard about that method, too, I just didn't know it was done at hatcheries.  I saw a feature on the show "Dirty Jobs" and some other show about vent sexing at a hatcheries.  So I guess it depends on the hatchery.

yep.

also... we havent quite figured it out yet because we forget what the lady said. It doesnt work like at all on banties and we sex the polish by crest

 

[Sylvester017]

yep.

also... we havent quite figured it out yet because we forget what the lady said. It doesnt work like at all on banties and we sex the polish by crest

For how hastily vent sexing is done in hatcheries it is considered dangerous to squeeze the smaller bantams for vent sexing. The hatcheries would probably lose half their bantam chicks at the same speed and pressure as LF chick vent sexing! This is why auto-sexing breeds are becoming more popular so breeders don't have to vent sex or wait for a chick to sprout wattles before they can ID the sex. Chicks identifiable at day-old are BRs, Doms, Rhodebars, Cream Legbars, (just about all the 'bars i.e. Welbars, Wybars, Goldbars, etc) Welsummers, Bielefelders, Sexlinks, and many others.

 

[frzldnfabfarm]

How do u knw which sex is which that's neat to knw

I heard if covert are thin primary thick female
if slightly shorter top row female .
Primarys and secondarys equal male
If longer top row male
If feather shafts same thinkness males .
These are describing the wing feathers one day olds however I have tried this on my polish and have gotten mixed results. No sure they are the best breed to do this with however there are tons of pics on internet which show clearly the difference mine weren't that obvious . A lot of questionables I find crest sexing easier but again I've gotten many of thoose off too but I think frizzles complicate things and a lot of my polish are frizzles