The chicken has just hatched, how can you tell a rooster from a hen?

A simple method to distinguish male and female chicks;

Generally speaking, a cockerel has a big head, round eyes, prominent eyeballs, thick feet, a long and pointed hooked mouth, full of energy and a "backbone" in his hand. Little hen has a smaller head, lighter body, oval eyes, short and round mouth, small and straight, short neck, short legs and short legs. If the chick's crown begins to sprout, crows with thick crowns are mostly cocks; The one with a thin crown may be a hen.

The second method is to judge the sex according to the growth rate of feathers, especially wing feathers and tail feathers. Because chicks give birth to new feathers, hens are generally earlier than cocks. For example, on the fourth day after hatching, if there are new hairs on its chest and shoulders, it is a hen; On the seventh day, he was a rooster and saw new hair on his chest and shoulders. When the chick grows to 15 days, the female chicken wings and tail feathers grow fast, while the cock has short wings and no tail feathers at this time.

The third method is to wait for the chicken fluff to dry, hold it in your hand and gently press its abdomen with your little finger. If you feel sluggish and lack flexibility, it is mostly female chicks; Most male chicks feel soft and elastic. This is because the metabolism of male chicks is relatively strong, and the absorption of egg yolk in the abdomen is faster than that of female chicks. In addition, when the male chicks are in their hands, they struggle hard and have a "support", while the female chicks are the opposite.

Four kinds of Fabian bones were generally compared after chicks hatched 10. Anyone with a long and heavy body, high legs, thick and long ankles and different lengths of the second toe and the fourth toe can be judged as a rooster; On the other hand, a hen with light body, short legs, thin and short ankles and the same length of the second toe and the fourth toe. At the same time, the distance between pubic bone (that is, chicken buttocks) is mostly male and the width is mostly female. Maternal pelvis is large, and it is easy to lay eggs in the future.

Generally speaking, male animals are more active and active than female animals. Roosters are brave and good at fighting, while female animals are more docile and cowardly. Accordingly, the action is sharp, the steps are big, the singing is rough and muddy, and the claws are mostly male chicks when grasping the soil; Those who are slow-moving, slow-paced, soft-voiced and straight-clawed are mostly females.

In order to further observe the movements of young birds, you can also catch a few and run on the ground covered with fine sand or lime soil, and you can print arrow-shaped footprints. If the direction of the arrow is a straight line, it is a rooster; If the directions of the "arrows" cross each other, it is a hen. If a chick is driven down from a height on a steep slope and spreads its wings to run and jump down, it is a male chick; If the wings can't be spread out, she will become a female chick when she walks and rolls. When you are lured by bait, it is the rooster who runs fast and is good at grabbing food; On the contrary, most of them are hens.

The above method is a summary of the masses' experience, which is simple and easy to implement. They can be used alone or in combination, and they can only be mastered after many exercises.