I am in need of some help! I saw somewhere that if you hold your chicks when they are a little older you can gently tilt them forward and if they fan out their tails they are female and if the don't they are males. Well when I tried this the first time on what I thought were all pullets to begin with, all but one of them fanned their tails; and I just accepted that I had a cockerel. I've been watching "him" develop into what I thought was a Red Sex link roo, until the other day when I was holding him and I unintentionally leaned him forward and he fanned "tail"! So now I'm asking all of you, is this whole theory of only females fanning their tails true? It really looks like a red sex link roo! If it's a female, then I'm just at a loss.
