Wing Sexing????

[Farmer In Training]

Hello! Soon expecting some chicks to sell, and I would like to have them pre-sexed (I will mention there is no 100% guarentee), But I have only have little knowledge on how to wing sex. Please help!!!!!

 

[maricela8492]

I found this online a long time ago and have found it to be very helpfully I hopes his helps you!!!

Hello! Soon expecting some chicks to sell, and I would like to have them pre-sexed (I will mention there is no 100% guarentee), But I have only have little knowledge on how to wing sex. Please help!!!!!

 

[Pyxis]

You can't wing/feather sex at all unless you have crossed the parent birds specifically to produce that trait in their offspring. You must have selected a male that was homozygous for rapid feathering and crossed him to a female that was hemizygous for slow feathering.

If you didn't do that, then it won't work, unfortunately.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

You can't wing/feather sex at all unless you have crossed the parent birds specifically to produce that trait in their offspring. You must have selected a male that was homozygous for rapid feathering and crossed him to a female that was hemizygous for slow feathering.

If you didn't do that, then it won't work, unfortunately.

This...... it is a common misconception that wing sexing is universal.

 

[lazy gardener]

Agreed with OGM and Pyx. Any thing else is a crap shoot.

 

[Farmer In Training]

Thank you this is super helpful!

 

[azygous]

You might learn to vent sex.

 

[MaryZoe]

I have never tried vent sexing, but I have spent a good amount of time researching it. I would approach it cautiously. It is easy to injure chicks if it is not done properly. It is a risk for newbs to try to train themselves. So if you have enough chicks that you don't mind losing a few as you "practice," then it might be a fine idea. But if not, you're better off waiting a couple weeks and looking for tell-tale signs as their combs start to develop/turn pink and they start to feather out. I find that as long as I have a group of the same age, same breed of chickens, the cockerels are usually easy to pick out by their combs starting at a surprisingly young age.

The other option is to sell them straight run at a very young age.

 

[Farmer In Training]

I have never tried vent sexing, but I have spent a good amount of time researching it. I would approach it cautiously. It is easy to injure chicks if it is not done properly. It is a risk for newbs to try to train themselves. So if you have enough chicks that you don't mind losing a few as you "practice," then it might be a fine idea. But if not, you're better off waiting a couple weeks and looking for tell-tale signs as their combs start to develop/turn pink and they start to feather out. I find that as long as I have a group of the same age, same breed of chickens, the cockerels are usually easy to pick out by their combs starting at a surprisingly young age.

The other option is to sell them straight run at a very young age.

We are not interested in vent sexing

 

[Ridgerunner]

The first post in this thread explains how to set up chicks for sexing at hatch, it goes over red sex links, black sex links, and wing-sexing. As Pyxis said, unless the parents are set up for it genetically, none of these methods work. Do you know enough about the parents to know if red or black sex-linking might work?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sex-linked-information.261208/