If you decided to get poultry, then it is very important to learn to define their sex upon purchase of chickens. Division of cockerels from chickens will lead to high-quality cultivation of a bird. Development and growth of females considerably will accelerate if among them there are no males.
Definition on characteristic features and color
Pick up a chicken and attentively examine, color of a stomach will allow to define, a rooster it or chicken. But a lot of things depend on breed. If they red, black, silvery or light brown, then you easily define a sex. Cockerels usually have two types of flowers on a stomach and a speck on the head. Females have three colors on a paunch which pass on all back.Males Orpingtonov or New gempshirov have white strips on wings, samochka separate brown strips on a back or black spots on the head. Plimutrokov it is easy to define a sex. Males of this breed have yellow spots at the head. Consider feathers. Hens very quickly feather in the first week, at males this process occurs much later. On the second month you will notice sharp and long feathers. At half-month age the cockerels have a crest which becomes red, at females the comb remains pale. All attention to the size of chickens. Cockerels in few weeks become larger than hens. At males of the head angular, at females krugly less. Legs of cockerels are longer, on them shoots can develop. Come into the hen house and sneeze, at the same time females will run up, and roosters will remain on the place. Lift a chicken for a nape, legs of a rooster will remain to hang equal, and the chicken will try to raise them, to crook fingers. It is possible to lower a chicken headfirst, holding by pads. The cockerel hangs quietly, the chicken tries to raise the head.
Japanese method of sex determination
If you cannot independently define a sex of chickens, then it is possible to ask for the help the expert. For this purpose it takes in a hand of a chicken and opens an anus to consider existence or lack of a shishechka. If the cone is available, then this is a rooster. Accuracy of this way is 90%. If you have no opportunity to employ the professional, then try to define a sex of chickens independently. Take a baby bird in the left hand, his head has to be located between a ring and middle finger, and paws between a little finger and a ring finger. Raise a tail upward. Accurately press the left thumb on a stomach bottom that the foul place opened. Then press a finger on the left edge of a foul place, the internal lock has to turn to a back of a chicken. Big and a forefinger of the right hand pinch the rear edge of a foul place, open it. If you saw a sexual hillock – before you a cockerel.