Absolutely identical bright yellow fluffy chickens, apparently, cannot be sorted by gender in any way. The beginning razvodchik of these birds fondly believe that when birds grow up, it will be much simpler to make it. However and in this case there are difficulties and to distinguish a chicken from a rooster it appears not so simply. But after all it is possible.
Instruction
1. Of course, the experienced poultry breeder will be able to distinguish a rooster from a chicken and at the smallest age. But if you do not treat those, it is possible to try to define a sex of a bird in the national ways. One of the most widespread — take a chicken for a neck behind two fingers and raise. The cockerel will lower pads down, and the chicken will attract them to a body. Even poultry breeders claim that this way is reliable with an accuracy of 85%.
2. If you do not trust national ways, wait until birds are 21 days old. To this age at baby birds it is already possible to make out some sexual characters. At chickens the feathers replace infantile down quicker. Sometimes it is even possible to see a young cockerel without feathers as they at first grow, and then feather.
3. To two-month age of external differences between chickens and cockerels becomes even more. At roosters the crest and a small beard become visible, there are spurs, legs become much longer also massivny, than at hens. In tails of cockerels there are kositsa — the rounded-off feathers. Of course, many signs depend on breed of birds, however with an accuracy it is possible to tell that the mower at chickens never is.
4. At the age of five-six months of chicken begin to lay eggs. Actually, it is the easiest way to define a sex of your birds. If you did not manage to make it earlier, wait for this age and observe the birds. If the bird begins to lay eggs is precisely the chicken. If you found a cockerel on a nest, do not begin to doubt his sex at once. So roosters show to hens that found the safe place for a yaytsekladka.