Instruction
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Males often have a bright color, high ridge and long legs. Females, on the contrary, can not boast an attractive appearance. If you have a regular broilers or laying hens, then you can distinguish the cock to these signs. Purebred chickens everything is more complicated, because the "ladies" have the exact same colouring as the males. But in any case, females are smaller than its second half (of the rooster). So if they are all equally beautiful and colorful, you can see the size and length of the legs.
2
If there are no external differences at all, it remains to be seen. See who crows in the morning - it can only do cocks. You can also calculate the hens that lay. And during feeding, look first to food choice is always the head of the coop, the females a while stand aside until he invited their unique sound to the trough.
3
You may notice that when harvesting the eggs, the rooster can be aggressive, although the chickens in this moment is quite calm and did not react to the person who is trying to destroy their nest. This is understandable, because the rooster home, and he is watching everything that happens in the coop.
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There are some barbaric ways to distinguish birds by sex. For example, you need to take a bird's feet and lowered upside down. Roosters usually begin to resist and raise his head up. But there are exceptions - it depends on the nature of birds, it's not always glib and cocky - rooster. Females too can stand up for themselves.
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To distinguish day chickens is almost impossible. Better buy them at the poultry farms, where they are divided among themselves. Chickens are a bit more expensive than chickens, so if you take birds for meat, choose males. You can try to figure out who is who, if you put a chicken on the palm back down. Females lay quietly and not try to climb, and the males are showing resistance. But no matter how you tried to distinguish between them, yet there is a probability that you're wrong.