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Sexing baby chicks is an almost impossible tasks. The people who do this are usually hatchery workers that are highly trained professionals, and even have been known to make mistakes themselves. Sexing chick methods range from hatchery to hatchery. Some use anal venting whilst others use the much easier feather method. I will show you both examples but as for myself when I am buying chicks I go by the feather. So far it has worked for me 5 out of 6 chickens.
I do not sell chicks or breed them for that matter. We raise chicks up to be laying hens for egg production. If you are here looking to purchase chicks I can recommend quite a few hatcheries. Some hatcheries require you to order 25 chicks at a time and there is a hatchery that I like in particular that you can order as few as 3.
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Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves literally squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females have very small bumps, but rarely do they have the large bumps male chicks possess.
The sexual organs of birds are located within the body; the professional vent sexer has studied their external appearance, which can fall into as many as fifteen basic patterns, and learned to identify which ones are male and which female. Many professional vent sexers are Japanese, where the method originated. A seminal paper about vent sexing was published in Japan in 1933 by Professors Masui and Hashimoto, which was soon translated into English under the title Sexing baby chicks. After Masui and Hashimoto's discovery, interested poultry breeders brought in people who had been trained by them to teach the technique, or sent representatives to Japan to learn it.
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Last but not least is the most reliable source and certainly 100% effective. You can let them grow until they start to take on their characteristics. By then you will know when one of your chicks hops up on the water basin and throws their neck out and lets out an alarming yet awkward squawk-crow! LOOK! ITS A ROOSTER! This version is not for the impatient but it does work!
