Therefore, the egg's form cannot indicate the sex of the chick it will produce. This shape also differs from one breed to another. "The fact is," says Veronica Waters (of Wellton, Arizona), "that one hen will lay an egg of almost identical shape every day. other chicken raisers disagree - sometimes most emphatically - with this bit of barnyard wisdom. Wollan swear that they raised 23 pullets from 23 eggs by comparing the shape of their hen fruit (according to them, eggs that eventually hatch into pullets are more oval than the pointy eggs that eventually hatch out as cockerels). You can't wait more than a day or two in order to vent sex.ĮGG SHAPE: Although J. The training to be a chick sexer is so difficult and lengthy that the average poultry owner finds it unjustifiable. Most of these highly trained individuals are employed by large commercial hatcheries. Therefore, few people have experience with determining the sex of birds because of the difficult nature of the process.
The copulatory organ of chickens can be identified as male or female by shape, but there are over fifteen different different shapes to consider. The reason is that the sexual organs of birds are located within the body and are not easily distinguishable. VENT SEXING: Vent sexing of chicks at hatching has complications that make it more difficult than sex determination of most other animals.
Most strains (breeds) of chickens do not have these feather sexing characteristics and feathering of both sexes appear identical. The method is very easy to learn by the poultryman, but the feather appearances are determined by specially selected genetic traits that must be present in the chick strain. So, regardless of what you have been told - it is NOT as reliable as you think, unless you've been doing it for 60 years like Hugh Grove (see The Joy of Sexing link below)įEATHER SEXING: Feather sexing is based on feather characteristics that differ between male and female chicks. To be honest, as hubby Jim says - "I've got a 50-50 chance of getting it right. well there is just so many roosters to have! if you want hens and end up with a lot of roosters. We hatch our own chicken eggs from our Ameraucana/Easter Egger chickens and many people want to know the sex of the chicks.
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