Again appeared baby birds at chicken need to be divided into cockerels and chickens. It is necessary to support them separately as the mode and quality of feeding for them will be different. Chickens will be left in order that laid eggs, and cockerels will be supported for receiving easy fast meat.
Instruction
1. It is very difficult to distinguish young growth by gender. Weigh a chicken. The cockerel has to weigh couple grams more. They also externally look larger. At daily chickens the head is less, than at cockerels, the comb is less. At cockerels of a leg strong and is thicker, klyuvik will bend stronger.
2. Lift a chicken for pads. The cockerel hangs motionless at once, the chicken tries to adopt the normal provision, waving wings and twisting the head. Grab young growth by a nape. At a cockerel of a pad hang directly, the chicken draws in them under herself.
3. Take carefully fingers klyuvik a chicken. The cockerel will try to pull out him from your hands.
4. Look at plumage. The chicken feathers quicker, than a rooster, and feathers at him with some gloss. At a cockerel on a tail the feathers stick out up, at a chicken the feather is pointed at a tail. Wings of the matured chickens become covered by equal feathers, at cockerels they different length.
5. Estimate a color of chickens. Modern poultry breeders bring hens and roosters of a certain coloring. At each breed the coloring of males and females. Divide them at once.
6. Look at a tail at chickens. In few weeks it develops at hens, at roosters later. At a cockerel on a tail the feathers stick out up, at a chicken the feather is pointed.
7. Compare young growth bodies. At chicken the neck is shorter, than at a rooster. On pads of a cockerel the hillock of the developing spurs is noticeable.
8. Watch chickens at monthly age when external sexual characters are shown. At a cockerel the red small beard and a big comb are already visible, legs become longer and thicker, than at hens, on them spurs appear.
9. Look at behavior of chickens. Cockerels are active, run much and fight with each other. Chickens are timid, sluggishly run, peep and often lag behind mom chicken.
10. Examine genitals of a chicken. Press on a stomach, open a foul place. At a cockerel on an internal wall the hillock will be probed, chickens do not have it.