sexing chicks

[streemers]

i just saw this on you tube and couldnt beleave it!!

 

[Bacchus]

I think that method only works if the chicks are sex linked hybrids, so it probably won't work unless your chicks were specifically breed to have those sex linked feather genes.

 

[GardeNerd]

Bacchus is right. They only have feathers like that if they are breed that way. It doesn't work for most of the breeds.

There was another thread on the topic a week or so ago.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=120543

There is a Dirty Jobs video you can also find on youtube that shows the vent sexing that is used for a lot of the other breeds when they are sexed at a day old in the hatcheries.

 

[streemers]

i was just shocked at how they are dropped from 1 thing to another. guess it is safe to start juggling chicks lol jusy kiddin

 

[GardeNerd]

After watching the video I read somewhere the males are sent to be turned into animal feed. I know it happens, but I can't watch that one anymore.

 

[streemers]

I know it! there is 1 worse then that right next to that video called sexing pullits i think and it was readdy bad they where sexing the and tossing them down a shoot!