How can you tell a hen from a rooster when they are still chicks?

ajdale

You pick up the chick. A rooster will kick its legs out, but a hen will draw them in. I like picking up chicks :-) Jun 15 00, 12:21 AM

zbeckabee

Modern commercial hatcheries use a variety of tricks that allow them to determine the sex of every chick from the moment it hatches. The most common way they do this, involves the cross breeding of birds of particular colours which result in male chicks having different colour down than female chicks. This is known as sex-linked crossing. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1889/20865 Feb 18 08, 6:05 PM

MonkeyOnALeash

As I saw on 'Dirty Jobs: With Mike Rowe' chick sexing can done anally (cloacal). http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/xchg/dpi/hs.xsl/27_2712_ENA_HTML.htm See it here: http://www.shoutfile.com/v/Q9dLTDWZ/The_Mysterious_Art_of_Chick_Sexing Feb 18 08, 9:07 PM

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