Dear
friends,
I
want to appreciate you for visiting my blog. It is such a great motivation.
Today,
I would be talking about sexting of a chick that is if it’s a hen or a rooster.
Sincerely
speaking, it is very difficult to know the sex of a chicken at the very early
age of their birth, though there could be some machine detection due to the
advancement of technology, but as far as my experience goes, I can’t determine
the sex of a bird until three to four weeks.
How
do I determine the sex of a chicken at three to four weeks old?
Someone
once told me that you can determine the sex of a chick at the egg stage, he said
if it is round in shape it may be a hen or if it is spherical in shape it may
be a rooster. However, I tried to find this out myself by identifying the round
and the spherical shape and notice this concept is not correct because after
the eggs were hatched it was male and others female for the spherical eggs.
With this, there is a clarity that the sex of
a chick cannot be determined by the shape of eggs.
4 weeks old broilers
My sexting
method
With
consistent guess, I have been able to determine the sex of a three-four weeks
old chicken with the following characteristic.
The Male
-
It
has a red comb shoot on its head
-
It
has almost no tail feathers
-
It
has two steps of feathers
-
It
has pointed feather on the neck
-
The
vent has a small bulb in its cloaca when squeezing until droppings are expelled
-
Slow
feathering
-
Puffing
up to show domineering behaviour naturally within the flocks.
The female
-
It
has no comb shoot on its head
-
It
has a long feather representing tail
-
It
has three steps of feathers
-
It
has rounded feather on the neck
-
There
is no bulb in its vent when squeezed
-
Fast
feathering
Why do you have
to know the sex of your chickens?
To
some, sexting of chick may not be necessary, but to a very large extent, it is
important to know the sex of chicks that you bring into your flock or going out
of your flock for the following reasons.
1.
It
helps you determine the sex of male you need to sell out of your flock.
2.
Male
chicks, from very strong and hardy stock are rated in sales, and this would
bring more money into your business.
3.
It
also help determine what your future flock would contain, helping you to
control the sex number in your flock.
4.
This
will necessitate proper planning of your backyard farm.
If
this post has helped your chicken knowledge in any way, kindly drop your comment
below.
Thanks.