How To Tell If A Chick Is Male Or Female

The shape of the egg it used to be believed that a long and narrow egg is a male chick and a rounder egg is a female chick.

How to tell if a chick is male or female. Simply pick up the bird and hold it securely under one arm. To determine the sex of a baby chick examine its wing feathers to see how long they are. How can you tell a male or female chick after hatching. Im going to teach you how to tell apart males and females here.

If theyre all the same length then its a male chick but if they vary in length its a female chick. Often the legs of males are chunkier too. It is not accurate. Usually by 6 to 8 weeks of age the combs and wattles of male chicks will be larger and redder than those of females as in the photo of sablepoot chicks below male on the left and females on the right.

It is simple to check these feathers. If you think you have a rooster on your hands you need to look at details. The following methods help us to differentiate between male and female chickens. One of the major differences between male and female chicks is that the down feathers of the former are of uniform length while the females vary in length.

Male chicks may start to crow from around 12 weeks old but they can start much later. A female chicken has rounded feathers and a male has pointed feathers. The egg water test also will not determine the gender. If you pick a chick up with two fingers by its neck a female will draw its legs up to its body a males legs will dangle.

The easiest way to determine the sex of an adolescent chicken is by examining the feathers on the birds neck. The first observation we can make is to do with the chicks down feathers. Egg candling lets you determine only if the egg is fertile.