The difference between chickens and roosters. How to distinguish a chicken from a cockerel at a week old

All little chicks look exactly the same. It is extremely difficult to distinguish hens from roosters by appearance. However, several fairly accurate special methods for determining the sex of chicks still exist. We’ll talk about which ones later in the article.

Ancient method

So, how to distinguish a day-old cockerel chick from a hen? This can be done, for example, in the same way that has long been used in Russian villages. This method is a little rough and not very accurate. But you can still try to determine the sex of the chick this way. You just need to grab the chicken by the legs and lift it into the air. It is believed that the cockerels hang calmly. The chickens try to take the correct position in space, pulling their heads forward.

You can try using a softer method. To do this, the chicken is simply placed on its back on the palm so that its head is left without support. The hen, as in the first case, will pick it up, and the cockerel will “drop” it back. Of course, in this case, as in the previous one, you shouldn’t torture the chick for too long.

There is another answer to the question of how to distinguish from cockerels. The chick needs to be carefully grabbed by the “shoulders” of its wings with both hands and slightly lifted into the air. It is believed that the chickens begin to quickly move their legs. The cockerels just hang quietly.

All these methods are not too complicated, but, unfortunately, they are not particularly reliable. The percentage of determining the sex of chicks when using them is low.

How to distinguish hens from cockerels: a modern way

Abroad, in poultry farms, where chicks are usually sorted on the first day after hatching, a fairly simple, gentle and at the same time quite accurate method is used to determine sex. It consists of pulling back a chicken's wing and examining its feathers. If two rows of them are clearly visible, located at different levels, then it is a chicken. If all the feathers are the same length, it is a cockerel.

Sex determination in large chicks

Now let's look at how to check a chicken (a cockerel or a hen walking around your yard) if it has already grown up. Everything is quite simple here. Experienced farmers believe that in the first weeks, hens grow a little faster than cockerels. Over time, the situation changes. The cockerels catch up and overtake the hens. Some homestead owners also determine the sex of chicks by the growth rate of their tails. It is believed that in chickens it begins to grow much faster - within a few days after hatching. Cockerels acquire it only after a couple of weeks.

How to find out gender before hatching

It is believed that it is completely impossible to determine who will subsequently emerge from the egg - a chicken or a cockerel. However, some farmers sometimes manage to increase the percentage of chicks of the desired sex. In order to determine who will subsequently hatch in the incubator or under the chicken, you should carefully examine the egg. Many experts do not advise taking for breeding those in which the air chamber is not located in the center of the blunt end, but is shifted. Meanwhile, some owners of homestead farms who breed laying hens, on the contrary, prefer to place just such eggs in the incubator. Of course, they only take those in which the camera is shifted slightly. It is believed that chickens are mainly hatched from such eggs. How much is unknown. Perhaps it was just a matter of pure chance.

You can also examine the sharp end of the egg to determine the sex of the future chicken. According to some farmers, if there are tubercles on it or, even better, a protruding calcareous ring surrounding it, there is a high probability that the chicken will hatch.

Caring for newborn chicks

Thus, you now know how to distinguish hens from roosters. Now let's figure out how to properly care for chicks. This is not a technically difficult matter, but it is very responsible. This is especially true for newborn babies.

On the first day, after drying in an incubator, chickens in poultry farms and large farms are placed in special nurseries. Owners of personal plots usually place hatched chicks simply in cardboard boxes. During this period of their lives, babies need to be given maximum attention. Firstly, they should be provided with round-the-clock lighting. Secondly, raise the air temperature to 30-32 degrees. To do this, you can put a plastic bottle with heated water or sand in a box, or use a regular incandescent light bulb as a heater. On large farms, the required temperature in the nursery is maintained using special equipment. It should be maintained at 30-32 degrees throughout the first week. The same applies to 24-hour lighting.

Caring for day-old chicks

Some farmers believe it should be on the first day after birth. Others advise waiting a day. The fact is that after leaving the egg, the chickens’ bodies have enough of the nutrients that they received while still inside. The supply runs out within 24 hours. After this time, it is imperative to feed and drink the babies. For both broiler chickens and laying hens, it is best to use a special “Start” mixture (of the appropriate variety).

You can also feed the chicks with regular boiled eggs and millet. After a couple of days they usually start giving cottage cheese.

Special drinking bowls should be used for chicks. Ordinary little chicks can crawl into them or simply fall and get wet. This often causes the death of chicks. The fact is that when the feathers get wet, the baby suffers severe damage. This is especially true for broilers. If a wet chick is overlooked, it should be dried as quickly as possible and placed in the warmest possible place.

Five to ten day old chicks

From the seventh day, the air temperature in the box can be reduced to 28 o C. During this period, the children’s “home” should be illuminated for at least 17-18 hours a day. They are still fed finely crushed grains, cottage cheese and herbs. It would be a good idea to add carrots to your diet. At five to ten days of age, chickens can already begin to be accustomed to the street. Of course, only if the weather permits. The chicks are taken out of the house directly in a box and left for a short time in the yard.

Further care

From the age of ten days, chickens begin to be fed fish or slaughterhouse waste. They are considered especially useful for broilers. During this period, the box with the chicks should be illuminated approximately 14 hours a day. The most comfortable temperature for chickens older than ten days is 20-24 degrees. At this time, laying hens can be left outside for the whole day and brought home only at night. Later, the chickens are transferred to a shed specially designated for them.

From the age of twenty days, laying hens usually begin to be given mash (at lunch) and grains (morning and evening). At this time, broiler chickens should already receive boiled mashed potatoes (in small quantities), fresh cottage cheese, buttermilk, etc. That is, the chickens are gradually transferred to an adult diet.

Features of keeping broilers

The main goal of farmers in this case is to quickly gain weight in chickens. Therefore, the majority of the bird’s diet should be grains (at least 50%). The movement of chickens should also be limited. Unlike laying hens, they are not allowed out for walking. The dimensions of the room in which broiler chickens will be kept should be such that there is about 60 cm of space for each individual. Very often, such chicks are raised not using the floor method, but in cages. In this case, the air temperature in the barn should be 2-4 degrees higher than recommended.

Since broilers are often not particularly resistant to diseases, the room intended for chickens must be disinfected before moving them in. Of course, a similar procedure would not hurt when breeding laying hens. Caring for chickens also means that birds of both productivity types are necessarily given mineral supplements. This could be, for example, ash or ground egg shells. It is worth placing containers with small pebbles around the shed. Fish oil is often used as a vitamin supplement, especially when breeding broilers.

Well, we have figured out how to distinguish hen chicks from roosters. Of course, it is quite difficult to accurately determine the sex of a baby emerging from an egg. But in any case, no matter how many hens and cockerels are hatched in the incubator, you need to monitor and care for them as carefully as possible.

The question of how to determine the sex of a chicken is asked by many homesteading enthusiasts and novice farmers; for them it is a very significant one. What the future chicken will become, a hen or a rooster, I want to know from the very beginning. After all, hen chickens will lay eggs and produce good meat and feathers. If this is not the most important thing, then they choose roosters.

Traditional methods - how to determine the sex of a chicken

To solve this issue (how to determine the sex of a chicken) there are several ways. And in this matter, folk wisdom is in no way inferior to science and is used in practice on an equal basis with all scientific methods. So, let's look at them in order:

1. One method for determining the sex of a chick is to grab it by the scruff of the neck and observe how the chick holds its legs. A female chick, that is, a hen, will try to curl her claws and raise her legs. But the “male” individual’s paws will hang straight.
2. The second method for determining the sex of a chicken is to study its behavior when picked up by its legs. According to this method, future hens will raise their heads up, and the future rooster will hang calmly.
3. If you have an incubator, you can notice the sequence that the first chicks hatched are in most cases hens, and those that appear later will be cockerels.
4. As they grow older, females and males behave differently from each other. If the chicks are about three weeks old or older, then in a stressful situation for them they behave differently in accordance with their gender. If you frighten them, the future cockerels will stand on the defensive with their heads held high. However, the chickens will pretend to be motionless, lower their heads and sit down.
5. You can also determine the sex of a chicken by the color of its comb. In chickens it is small and yellowish. Whereas in males it is more noticeable and has a red color. This allows chicks to be sorted with great precision.
6. You can also identify male and female chickens by the color of their down. Chickens of various colored breeds have peculiar spots or stripes on their heads, but cockerel chickens do not have these distinctive signs. Another sign is the plumage. It is very easy to determine the sex of chickens; cockerels fledge later than hens.

Scientific Methods to Determine the Sex of a Chicken

In addition to these ancient signs, there are also scientific methods determining the sex of a chicken. These include:

• Japanese method
• cytogenetic method
• molecular genetic.

Ventsexig or Japanese method

This determination method was developed in the first half of the twentieth century in Japan. It consists of examining day-old chicks for the appearance of the cloaca and finding the genital tubercle on its inner wall, because it differs significantly in size and shape in hens and cockerels. At the moment, this method is used very widely in poultry farming worldwide. At the same time, statistics show that this method allows highly qualified operators with extensive experience to determine the sex of a young chicken with an accuracy of 92-96%. The work speed is up to 600-800 individuals per hour.

The disadvantage of ventsexing is the possibility of infection of individuals with intestinal microflora, as well as injury.

This method is recommended to be carried out at intervals from six to sixteen hours After the chicks hatch, then the sexual characteristics of individuals begin to smooth out and identifying a hen or a cockerel is much more difficult.

The full cycle of sex determination consists of the following procedures: taking the chick, assessing its condition, emptying its rectum of the contents and then opening the individual’s cloaca. Then all the chicks are distributed into separate boxes depending on their sex. To cleanse the rectum, use the thumb, index and middle fingers of the hand in which the chick is located to squeeze it in the abdomen and sides. Then, holding it in your hand, turn it head down, then grab the legs with the other hand and pinch them between the middle and index fingers. There is no need to squeeze the chick too much, as this will complicate the inspection.

Correct opening of the cloaca is the most important point in determining the identity of the chick. Having fixed the individual in this position, it is necessary to carefully turn the inner wall of the cloaca outward from the abdomen. On the surface of this section, males will have a visible genital tubercle, which hens will not have.

Cytogenetic method

This method is based on determining the sex of a day-old chick by the karyotype of fast-acting feather pulp cells. The Z sex chromosome in males is the longest metacentric of the karyotype, but in chickens, the W chromosome is 10 times smaller and is a submetacentric. Based on the number of Z chromosomes, the sex of an individual can be determined by studying the mitosis of feather pulp cells using the cytogenetic method. If there is only one chromosome, then this is a chicken, if there are two chromosomes, then this indicates the male gender.

Molecular genetic method

This method includes the possibility of determining sex using blot hybridization of blood DNA with a specific primer. The sex of a young individual is accurately determined both by analyzing samples of purified DNA and when studying whole blood, washed red blood cells. However, the molecular genetic method is expensive and labor-intensive.

Lately I've been asked a lot: how to distinguish chickens by gender at an early age? Is it possible to have more hens in a brood? It's clear where these questions come from. Poultry farms do not sell poultry, and on the black market, where activity reigns, they always deceive the buyer. You want hens for the summer, but they give you roosters, of which more are hatched. In nature, more males are always born; nature is generally wasteful.

It is believed that pointed eggs hatch into cockerels, and round eggs hatch into hens. This is not true; the shape of the egg is determined only by the structure of the mother hen's oviduct. It is still impossible to determine who is who at the stage of laying eggs for incubation. The Japanese spent $1 billion to solve this problem, but never achieved any practical results. So what, ultrasounds are not performed for pregnant women at the moment of conception, but a little later.

In industrial poultry farming, the sexual problem is solved with the help of four linear crosses, with beige hens and white cockerels. Where broilers are raised, the white ones are left, the beige ones are drowned, and where laying hens are needed, the opposite is true. By the way, broiler chickens, which are unnecessary in a poultry farm, are very good in a personal backyard, because... The first year they lay eggs normally, but in the second year, you see, a solid carcass has already been fattened up. There are breeds called autosex, in which the chicks differ in sex at one day of age. Classic in this regard is the Italian partridge; cockerels and hens there can be distinguished by the color and brightness of the stripes on the backs and arrows near the eyes.

I kept Adler silvers, they are also autosex: the hens are born yellow, and the cockerels are lemon-colored with a bright black stripe on the head.

An experienced poultry farmer can sort chickens by sex, even if the breed is not autosex. So, my dark-colored hens always have clear outlines of stripes on their backs and bright brown dots on their heads, while the cockerels are blurry. In short, if you want to have a certain breed, read the literature first, find out how to distinguish chickens, come to the Gardener's House, to our club, we will give you the breed standard, everything is described there.

By the 21st day of life, most breeds already exhibit external sexual characteristics. At all, In all breeds, hens fledge faster than cockerels, their tails grow earlier. The rooster first grows and then fledges. Often large roosters run naked, with feathers only on their wings. At two months of age, males have a visible comb and beard, the “face” turns red, the legs become longer, the paw itself is more massive than that of a chicken, then rounded feathers appear in the tail - braids. Chickens never have braids at all. Chickens do have spurs, but only very old ones. A large comb on a chicken is a sign of an egg-laying breed.

If you catch a rooster on the nest, don’t be afraid, his orientation is fine, he’s just showing the hens that he’s found a safe place to lay eggs. Pugnacious ones are usually the best roosters. When palpating a good chicken, 3 fingers are placed between the pubic bones.

For heavy meat and meat-egg breeds, a large number of cockerels in a brood is not such a problem, but for egg breeds, raising roosters for meat is unprofitable, feed is now expensive, in our cold climate energy costs are high, the bird eats a lot in order to properly warm up and fledge.

What can be done to have more chickens in the brood?
Before selecting eggs for incubation, Americans sharply reduce the protein content in the feed and dip the eggs in a solution containing female sex hormones, although they say that this leads to rapid degeneration of the herd.

I do it simpler. If I need chickens, then I remove all the young roosters, in the spring I only have old three-year-old aksakals left to walk around the pullets, the percentage of fertilized eggs will be lower, but such seasoned fathers know how to make daughters well. If it is necessary to select a good sire from a large number of applicants, young “stallions” are left to chase the old laying hens.

Often asked: Will hens lay eggs without a rooster?
They will. The rooster does not affect egg production, quite the contrary, but an unfertilized egg lacks some of the qualities that a fertilized one has.

Also interested in: Is it possible to keep a dwarf rooster with large chickens?
You can if you are not going to hatch chickens. But the opposite is unacceptable.

Is it possible to keep one rooster just for beauty?
It is possible, but is it necessary? It's common knowledge that single men don't last long.

How many hens should there be per rooster?
It depends on the breed and temperament. To have normal fertilization, there should be four to eight hens per rooster.

Is it possible to keep roosters and chickens of different breeds?
It is possible if you are not going to breed any pure breed. True, 11 days before the eggs are collected for incubation, the birds can be separated by breed, and the rest of the time kept in one flock.

Who tastes better: a rooster or a chicken?
Chicken tastes better.

Who eats more?
In childhood - a rooster, in adulthood - a chicken. Breeding roosters are even fed separately.

How many years can you keep chickens?
You can keep them until they die, if they are pets for you and not food. It makes sense to keep chickens for two years, and roosters for up to three years. Sometimes old chickens are kept for up to four years, used only as brood hens.

Who are "kuropekh" and "capon"?
A chicken is a rooster with blurred sexual characteristics, which is a by-product of inbreeding, i.e. inbreeding. Such a bird is subject to culling. This is the same as Sobchak in dogs. A capon is a castrated rooster raised for meat. This method was used before broiler breeding.

What is the difference between a hen, a hen and a hen?
The hen sits on the eggs, the hen leads the chicks, and the hen in general is called the chicken mother, starting from the moment she stops getting up from the nest.

What kind of chickens sit on eggs?
All meat breeds and most general breeds are accepted. The best hens are dwarf hens.

No matter how much they frighten us with exotic diseases, where can we, Russians, escape from the earth? And on its own land there should be a house with three windows, a chicken coop, a rooster should scream throughout the whole area, a pussy should bask in the sun, a dog should bark at passers-by, and the owners should dig in the beds. Here it is, a simple Russian dream!

Lyudmila Romanikhina, secretary of the "Russian Society of Poultry Fans in St. Petersburg"
Photo by the author

Chicken owners are constantly replacing old birds with new ones. They also buy adult chickens, but it is much more profitable to buy chickens. They are not difficult to care for, and within a few months they will become young chickens. But there is one problem - the gender of the chicken. Chicks purchased at the market can grow into cockerels. And for those who raise chickens from a laying hen or their own incubator, it is useful to know how many chickens they will have. How to determine the sex of a chicken?

Determining the sex of a chicken is an important skill for farmers

Proven Methods

To determine the sex of a hatched chick, you can use proven, reliable methods.

By color in purebred chickens

This method is only effective if the chickens are purebred. Then the sexes are distinguished by color.

1. Crosses. This breed is most often used in factories. At one day old, chicks are distinguished by their color: beige ones grow into layers, and white ones become the color of cockerels.
2. Autosex breeds (Leggorn, Legbar, etc.). Chicks at the age of one day differ in color: for a chicken it is uniform, they can be white, gray or black. And the “boys” hatch with stripes.
3. Brahms. Females hatched from eggs are decorated with clear stripes on the back and the same clear dots on the head. Males also have them, but they look blurry.
4. Rhode Island and New Hampshire breeds. On day 2, dark spots and stripes are visible on the head of future hens, but the roosters do not have them.
5. Adler silver. Females are yellow, and males are lemon-colored, with a black stripe on the head.

It is easy to distinguish the sex of a purebred chicken. It is much more difficult for those who have simple chickens, because... there chickens have different colors, regardless of gender.

Female Adler breed

It is called the Japanese method because... in this country it is used to determine the sex of chickens in industrial plants. This method is complex, but accurate. To use it, take a chicken that is already 6-7 hours old and perform a series of steps. You can’t test a newly hatched baby this way; you’ll damage the fragile body. But even after 18 hours for meat or after 15 hours for eggs, this method will not work, because... a fold will appear that will make sex determination difficult.

Therefore, be sure to adhere to the specified deadlines: the interval between 6 and 15 (18) hours. after hatching.

How it's done:

• You need to take the chick in your hand and press on its belly so that the accumulated feces come out;
• holding the legs, turn it upside down;
• with the other hand, carefully stretch the cloaca, turn it slightly from the side of the tummy;
• examine it carefully: if there is a small bump, it’s a rooster, if not, it’s a hen.

Japanese method of sex determination

Traditional methods

These methods to help determine the sex of a chick can also be accurate. The main thing is attentiveness, observation and the desire to find out who is in front of you.

Wing inspection

1. When the chicks are 2-3 days old, inspect their wings. In “boys” they are lighter than in chickens. Later, everyone will have the same color.
2. Pull back the chick's wing and straighten it. You need to study the first flight wings. Hens fledge first, so their 6-7 primary feathers are larger than the rest, i.e. they alternate between long and short feathers. Roosters have all the same feathers, they are located in an even row.

Fledged chicken wing

Flipped over

This is a simple method, but not accurate. The chick is grabbed by the legs and turned over so that it is upside down. If the baby pulls his head in, it’s a “girl”; if he stretches it out and looks around, he lifts his head up – he’s a cockerel.

In adult chicks

A person with experience determines the sex and older chicken at the age of 2-3 weeks. Here are the main criteria you need to rely on.

1. Inspect the plumage. “Girls” lose their down earlier than “boys.”
2. View the size of the chick. Roosters first grow and then become covered with feathers. Therefore, larger chicks are roosters.
3. Inspect the tails. In chickens they grow faster. But in roosters, over time, braids are visible in it - rounded feathers. Chickens don't have them.

When the chickens are two months old, the roosters are even more noticeable: their comb and beard are already growing, their “face” gradually becomes red, their legs lengthen, their paw is huge and massive.

Although a chicken can also grow a comb. It indicates that she is an egg-laying breed.

Determining the sex of adult chickens is quite simple.

Determining the sex of a chicken in an egg

If it were possible to determine the sex of a chicken while still in the egg, many poultry farms would use this method so as not to bother with rooster eggs, because it's expensive. Chickens are more in demand, but it also happens that 80-90% of chickens grow into roosters. The Japanese spent a billion dollars to solve this problem, but could not achieve results. But there are traditional methods.

Methods for determining sex in an egg:

1. Pointed eggs are for roosters, round eggs are for hens (the method is not accurate).
2. Take the egg, pointy end up, and run the fingers of your other hand over it. If you feel that there is a ring and tubercles on the surface, then this is a male egg, but if the surface is smooth, it is a female.
3. Take an ovoscope and illuminate the egg from the sharp end to the blunt end. Then you will see the air chamber. If it is in the center, there will be a male, but if it is shifted, there will be a hen.

In the USA, in order to solve this issue, the amount of protein in feed is reduced.

Our craftsmen simply remove the young roosters and introduce three-year-old hens to the hens. Then not all eggs will be fertilized, but there will be more “girls”. You can use old laying hens and young cockerels.

Most of us have bought chicken at least once, and if not, we would like to buy it. But what if we want to buy more chickens? And often we buy roosters, even though the sellers assure us that this is not the case. How to distinguish a chicken from a rooster? And how to distinguish another small bird? Read further in the article.

There are several methods to find out the sex of a chicken. But each of them gives no more than 80% accuracy. So the risk that he will grow into a rooster and not a hen, or vice versa, is still quite large. But then how do they carry out culling at poultry farms, because there the accuracy is 100%. How were they able to achieve this?

How to distinguish chickens in poultry farms

There, the problem of determining gender is solved very quickly and simply. The fact is that factory chickens are crosses specially bred for production. Thanks to selection, already at one day of age they have excellent sexual characteristics, which are expressed in the color of the chicken. That is, all beige chickens are hens, and white ones are future roosters.

You can also find information on poultry breeding forums that back in Soviet times, some poultry farms used one experimental method. It also gave 100% accuracy. They say that it involved the use of ultrasounds. They selected an ultrasound that would attract the hens and scare away the cockerels, or vice versa.

Then all the livestock gathered in a large area or in a large room. There were speakers on one side and they emitted this ultrasound. The floor they were luring gathered around them, and the rest crowded further away, namely against the opposite wall. Poultry farmers could only redistribute the chickens into cages.

Chicken color

By the color of the fuzz of chickens, you can accurately determine the sex not only of factory crosses. There are breeds of chickens that are called autosex. That is, sexual differences manifest themselves from the very first days. These breeds include: Legbar, Leghorn, Rhode Island, Italian Partridge, Silver Adleria, etc. So, most of these have a striped color, and the chickens are uniformly white, gray or black.

If we talk about other breeds, then each has its own characteristics. For example, brahma hens have clear stripes on their backs and clear dots on their heads, while cockerels have blurry stripes. You can recall in more detail the breeds of Rhode Island and New Hampshire. On the second day of life, dark spots and stripes on the head are clearly visible in females, while in males they are absent.

As you can see, there is no single correct distinction for all breeds. Some have males that are more colored, while others have females. But if the breed is autosex and you know what color each should have, then distinguishing a cockerel from a hen will not be difficult. Therefore, if you want to buy chickens on the market, it is better not to rush and look for literature for a more detailed acquaintance with the proposed breed.

We distinguish by the wing fan

Another method that works well in practice. But unfortunately, it is not 100% accurate. But this method is also used quite often. It consists in the fact that the female’s wing fan should be red with a white tip. And males have a white spot in the middle of the wing.

Japanese method

Another one hundred percent method for determining the sex of chickens already at 15 hours of age. The fact is that cockerels have a small genital tubercle near the cloaca. Females do not have it. Making a diagnosis is very simple. You need to take the chicken and carefully examine the area around the cloaca. If you find a characteristic tubercle, it’s a male, and if not, then it’s a female.

Another interesting method

This method, although not 100% accurate, has a very impressive accuracy of more than 70%. It involves taking the chicken by the legs and lifting it upside down. If it is a chicken, then it will hang with its head down. Well, if there is a cockerel in front of us, then he will try to raise his head. But at what age this method works most effectively, opinions among poultry farmers differ. Therefore, decide for yourself whether it is worth using it.

Gender test: on the left is a cockerel; on the right is a chicken

How to distinguish older chickens

If you decide to buy older chickens, then you need to know several features. It must be remembered that sexual characteristics begin to manifest themselves well from the 21st day of life. Well, if the bird is already several months old, then distinguishing a rooster from a hen will not be any problem. So, a few recommendations on how not to make a mistake with your choice.

Plumage

A characteristic sexual trait of an older bird is the rate of feathering of the chicks. The female fledges much faster than the male. The whole point is that the rooster first grows, and only then acquires feathers. Therefore, it is often possible to observe an almost adult, but not yet fully feathered cockerel.

Other age signs

Starting from two months, the beard and comb of cockerels turn red and become noticeably larger than those of chickens. The paws become more massive and the spurs begin to stand out clearly. Then the males begin to develop large rounded feathers on their tails, called braids. And roosters are often more massive than females.

To summarize, we can say that there are still many methods for determining the sex of chickens.. The article shows only the most effective and popular of them. But every experienced farmer has several more equally effective methods in stock.

Therefore, if you decide to start a large farm from scratch, it is better to do it with the help of an experienced specialist. Then unforeseen situations should not arise. And if there is no one to call for help, then we hope our article was able to help you.

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