Sexing of chicks ; Determining gender of chicks :
Intro: sexing chicken is a method of differentiating the sex of chickens .This process is mostly used in commercial hatching industry's to separate pullets & cockerels.In poultry industry they are various reasons for sexing chicks,they are like ,males are not required in the egg production industry & in breeders separate male and female chicks are required.
Sexing chicks is done by a trained person called a "chicken sexer".
Methods in sexing chicks :
1.VENT sexing Method :
In this method by squeezing of anal vent of chick there appear a '.Generally the chick with bump is recognised as male & chick without bump is said to be female.But here some females also have bump but comparing to male chicks they are small .so,the chicks with larger bumps can be recognised as males and chicks with small bump or no bump can be recognised as females.
In this method ,sexing of chicks is little bit difficult but with regular practice ,it becomes easy to recognised by chicken sexer.
2 .FEATHER 🪶 Sexing method :
In this method by seeing the wing tip feathers of day old chicks, we can recognise the gender. Generally chicks have two layers of feathers .The top feather is called as "COVERT" where as lower feather is called as 'PRIMARY' (feathers to be checked at the tip of wing ).
In female chicks the primary wing feathers are longer than covert feathers.
In male chicks the covert feathers are larger or same to primary wing feathers.
*Feather sexing is one of the easy method in differentiating males & female chicks.
There are also some other methods in sexing of chicks but they are not accurate.In crown method ,the cockerels(male) have big & darker crowns compared to pullets(female) .But the crowns sizes are differed breed to breed.so it is not a accurate method to sexing chicks.
The other methods are like by seeing color of chicks & gesture of chicks.In Some chicks we can observe fighting or pecking other chicks ,flying directly on other chick chests .This signs shows the chick Is male .The female chick has a shy behaviour like keeping down the head and remaining calm.But this is not 100% accurate.The behaviour of chicks can be changed according to conditions.
Sexing of chicks helps you in decreasing the cost of production in any segment of poultry industry.
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