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  • From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Homestead] Sexing chickens
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:51:35 -0600

If you want to sex chicks, the easiest way is to have a breed (though I
think the ones that have sex-linked color differences are mainly crosses)
that produces differently colored males and females.

I'm much impressed with the Golden Comet -- the males are yellow fluffies
when hatched (and turn into huge white cockerels with some black feathers)
and the females are reddish-brown (and produce incredibly large eggs.

All the big hatcheries hire people who are good at sexing day-old chicks,
and they must be pretty good; regardless of hatchery, I've gotten few
cockerels when I ordered pullets.

Marie






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