Male or female chickens?

Question

Hello, to anyone who remembers me our bantoms hatched out three chicks, so my questions were a bit premature but we are very happy I was wrong?? anyhow now we have three babies can anyone tell me how to tell the difference between male and female? thanks Sue

Answer 1

chickens are female

cockrel is mail

or look at their privates

Answer 2

Chick sexing is the method of distinguishing the s*x of chicken and other hatchlings, usually by a trained person called a chick sexer or chicken sexer. Chicken sexing is practised mostly by large commercial hatcheries, who have two different feeding programmes, one for the females (or hens) who are destined to lay eggs for commercial sale, and the others for the males (or roosters), most of whom will be disposed within days of their hatching because they are irrelevant to egg production.

Answer 3

chicken is male - hen is female - get hens

Answer 4

You could try vent sexing, but its hard!  You need to gently squeeze their bottom, and you should be able to see a little pinksih hole - if there is a pin sized bump then it could be a boy, if there isn't its a girl - but its really hard to get it right!

Chickens don't take long to mature though, you should be able to make accurate guesses in about five weeks, and you'll definately know by seven weeks.

Answer 5

Take the tip of your finger and rub gently just at the edge of it's bunghole.

If you feel a tiny knot, it is a rooster, if it is smooth, it is a hen chick.

Answer 6

The easiest way is to just wait and see what happens with their combs and waddles ( don't know if that is what it is called the red thing that hangs down from their face)  In most breeds the males are larger and darker red.  It is very difficult for most to s*x a Chick like the professionals do and they don't guarantee a 100% of sexed birds. Most of the professionals that s*x birds have come from many generations that have done it.  Dirty Jobs had a show on it where they were at McMurry Hatchery in Webster City Iowa.  I have raised many birds and just wait until they are bigger to know what we have.  I don't want to be pooped on that bad, and would be afraid of injuring the chick.

Answer 7

dunno

Answer 8

According to Jamie Oliver (the chef) the males are lighter than the females.

In UK Jamie Oliver did a TV programme on battery hens and in order to separate the two sexes, hens are more profitable than c***s, when there were hundreds of chicks to s*x they removed the lighter coloured (males) ones and kept the darker ones (females) to place in barns or battery farms for egg laying or grown on for meat. The males however are killed and end up as food for Reptiles and Birds of Prey