Sexing Chicks? This is cool !!!

[bkbingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zbkkkn_PxE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTddabBi5A

Who would of though you could sex a chic by looking at the wings?

 

[ibpboo]

I'm on dial-up so I can't watch the utube, but I saw an episode on tv once that showed sexing by wings. I'm not sure you can do that with all breeds though, and I think that they may breed for that. but it worked on chicks that i bought at my local feed store. RIR's

 

[hinkjc]

Yeah, it only works if you breed a fast feathering bird to a slow feathering bird. I believe the offspring are the opposite and can be feather sexed. It doesn't work for all breeds, thus the use of vent sexing by hatcheries for other breeds.

Jody

 

[Lobzi]

It was hard to tell from the vid on the link. What was he seeing on the males' wings...no feathers? I could see the feathers he was showing on the females. Does anyone have any more information on this...it is very interesting.

 

[sarahloveschickens]

wow thanks for showming me this now i know how to sex my chicks

 

[silkiechicken]

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So if you didn't set up the maiting, it won't work.

They are looking for the length of the primary vs secondary feathers on the wings.

 

[bkbingham]

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Watch the other video they have a better picture of the wings...

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

You need to breed a fast feathering roo to a slow feathering hen to get this wingsexing to work, as far as I know the only types of chickens bred for that are production white leghorns and meat chickens.

As day-olds males will only have 1 row of wingfeathers while females will have 2 rows, a long and a shorter one.

I tried this method on other, heritage breeds and it does not work.

 

[bkbingham]

Why would a huge company such as McMurray, use this tecnique then? He said he processes about 20 thousand chics a day that way!

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

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He was probably processing meatbirds and leghorn chicks for commercial laying and grow-out operations, they would probably process a couple of thousands of these breeds a day just for that purpose.