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The Happy Chicken Coop. When I have a little brooder full of chicks, I love to know whether I have a little cockerel or pullet. It is advantageous to know which sex my peeps are in case I decide to sell them, sort, or introduce to my flock. If I am going to sell, typically a pullet will go for a few more dollars than a rooster, so rather than selling straight run, I like to be able to tell new owners what they are getting.


Chicken Sexing - How To Determine The Gender Of Your Chickens




Methods for Sexing Chicks | Freedom Ranger Hatchery
Reading Time: 9 minutes. By Don Schrider — Whether at the feed store choosing day-old chicks or hatching our own, all of us would probably enjoy knowing how to tell the sex of baby chicks to determine which are cockerels and which are pullets as soon as possible. Over the past years there have been many methods developed for how to tell the sex of baby chicks; some methods proved haphazard, some have proven quite effective. Before we take a look at the methods, it is important to remember the role chance can play in our success in learning how to tell the sex of baby chicks.



How to Sex Chickens: 5 Methods To Determine Hen Or Rooster
A re you wondering how to tell the sex of your chicks or slightly older chickens? The question of gender is important to many chicken keepers for a variety of reasons, most commonly because roosters are either not allowed in the neighborhood or not needed in a backyard flock. I hope this article helps you learn to distinguish male chicks from female chicks, cockerels from pullets and roosters from hens. When purchasing chickens from a hatchery or feed store, remember that even chicks being sold as female aka: sexed, pullets risk being male.





Anyone who has had chickens most likely already knows how difficult sexing chicks can be. That includes sexing chicks as accurately as possible. Depending on your experience with raising chickens, you may already have a few favorite techniques of sexing chicks. When it comes to sexing baby chicks, not being able to tell if your birds are pullets female chicks or cockerels male chicks can be detrimental to your flock. The following are a few methods we tend to use here at Freedom Ranger.
