To the inexperienced city dweller in farmer affairs happens quite difficult to distinguish adult chicken from a rooster, and already if to it will suggest to sort on a sex of chickens. However to find distinctions not to make work if you know several simple cunnings.
Instruction
1. Examine a comb – a small cop on the head of a chicken. At a rooster the comb is much larger and brighter, than at chicken, it always red whereas chicken has it small and pale. A chin under a beak and cheeks at a rooster also have a bright and juicy color.
2. The tail and wings of a rooster are decorated with multi-colored feathers, and standing over pads - sharp spurs which the cocky rooster can give deep wounds to the rival. Combative attributes are necessary to a rooster to draw attention of chickens. Hens possess faded feathers: from a pale beige shade till ordinary brown, earthy color.
3. Chicken by the size is usually one and a half-two times less than a rooster. The weight of adult hens reaches 3 kg, roosters - 4.5 kg. Hens save less fats, and roosters by the nature have to have a good reserve of fat.
4. Feathers in the tail of a rooster are always longer and brighter, than at chicken. As a rule, a cock tail – the most distinctive feature of the loud-voiced rural singer. Feathers on a neck too considerably differ at adult birds of different floors. At a cockerel the feathers on a neck are longer, thinner and more pointed. And plumelets at chicken short and rounded off on the end.
5. Pay attention to the mark left by a paw of chicken and a rooster. Because the back toe of a rooster shorter is also set slightly aside aside, and side fingers stand widely, the print of a paw of a rooster has a cross appearance. At chicken the print is more compact, the pad is collected and directed forward, a back part is given less.
6. One more distinctive feature is characteristic shout "doodledoo". Mostly chickens peep, but if among baby birds in 2-3 months someone begins to squall and outvoice loudly others, then before you, most likely, a cockerel.
7. In communication with each other hens are more tolerant and quiet, than roosters. The last are often aggressive to similar and even to the person.
8. And at last, the most certain and reliable way to define a sex of a chicken is an ability to lay eggs. Without having managed to distinguish on external signs chicken from a rooster, you need only to wait to five-six-month age. If the bird begins to lay eggs – before you 100% chicken. If it in any does not rush, is very high probability that it is a rooster.