How Does One Sex Chicks?
This is a popular chicken topic. Of course, there are professional chick sexers who are able to differentiate between the two sexes through a visual inspection. Otherwise, I do not know of any scientific method of sexing chicks — but who cares about science? There is a lot of great backwoods knowledge when it comes to this: Many people claim that the small end of a hen egg will be round; whereas, the small end of a rooster egg will be pointed. There are an abundance of people who believe that one can sex a chick by suspending a needle or a key from a piece of thread over the chick. If the needle or key swings in a circle, the chick is a hen. If it swings back and forth, the chick is a rooster. A woman in Missouri claims that a chick held upside down by its feet will point its beak down if it is a hen or up to its chest if it is a rooster. I have never tested any of these methods, but I am told that they are very accurate by those persons who use them. My own recommendation is that you
