Knowing What Sex My Babies Will Be

[kraftykev]

Ok maybe not the best topic title, but i didnt know what else to put. i seem to have a load of cock birds and seem to be a bit short of hens. So next year i need to breed my birds, but keep some of my hens. Does any one know of a way of knowing, by breeding the sex of there young birds. I did read that group red hens, including mealies and yellows, if bred with a blue bar, blue cheq or dark cheq cock will produce red group cocks and blue bar, blue cheq and dark cheq hens. is this correct and are there any other colour mixes that will tell me what the sex will be. As most of you know i breed kirkparicks so have plenty of colours in the loft lol.

 

I feel that i have not explained what i wanted to say properly but i hope you understand what i mean..

 

 

Take care

 

kevin

 

spencroft kirkpatricks

[billt]

That is correct Kev, Blue series cocks x Red series hens will give you Rd series cock and Bl series hens

[kraftykev]

cheers bilt, just been reading an old topic on here and it stated that yellow cock to red hen will give me yellow daughters and red sons. Now i have a section of yellow kirkpatricks and i would prefer yellow daughters than the blue daughters. I dont have many red stock hen but do have a fair few mealy stock hens. Do you think that is i put my yellow cock birds to my red and mealy stock hens i would get yellow daughters and red sons

 

cheers mate

[billt]

Also 2 Rd series birds paired will give Rd series cocks and Rd series hens but also Bl series hens so any Bl from these pairings will be hens

[kraftykev]

thanks for your help my friend

[billt]

Not sure how it works with Yellows, have had Kirkpatricks but not Yellows

[mosslands1]

you can buy a gadget from the poultry shops that you hold over the eggs and it tells you weather its a cock or hen I belive a gold ring on a piece of string also works hold ring over egg it will either go round and round or sway from side to side cant remember which is which

[kraftykev]

wow just tried it and the gold ring went anti clock wise, hope that means im a male lol

[dkj]

you can buy a gadget from the poultry shops that you hold over the eggs and it tells you weather its a cock or hen I belive a gold ring on a piece of string also works hold ring over egg it will either go round and round or sway from side to side cant remember which is which

a small bit of lead on thread, does the same

[Valiant Fifer]

Correct Davie. If it goes round in a circle or oval formation its a hen. If in a straight line its a cock.

[Guest johnhunter]

Correct Davie. If it goes round in a circle or oval formation its a hen. If in a straight line its a cock.

do use actually believe that sh..e,if that were true why do you need to get parrots sexed

[big blue bar]

Correct Davie. If it goes round in a circle or oval formation its a hen. If in a straight line its a cock.

Think it's the other way round oval means cock straight -hen

[big blue bar]

do use actually believe that sh..e,if that were true why do you need to get parrots sexed

You should try it . It does work

[Guest johnhunter]

You should try it . It does work

mate its the person that's holding the string that makes it go round

[big blue bar]

mate its the person that's holding the string that makes it go round

Ok ,have you tried it ? because if I hold a hen it'll swing and if I try it with a cock it goes round , and I wasn't swinging myself

[philg50]

When doing widow hood in the 80s picked cocks in nest by picking the biggest as the cock smallest the hen worked 100% this way only brought up cocks and used same hens for a couple of years .

[Guest johnhunter]

Ok ,have you tried it ? because if I hold a hen it'll swing and if I try it with a cock it goes round , and I wasn't swinging myself

that's right if you hold a hen and you know its a hen it will swing,as I say its you that is making it swing

[Valiant Fifer]

that's right if you hold a hen and you know its a hen it will swing,as I say its you that is making it swing

Have u tried it m8 ?

Think youll find it fairly accurate if done properly.

[dublin boy]

cheers bilt, just been reading an old topic on here and it stated that yellow cock to red hen will give me yellow daughters and red sons. Now i have a section of yellow kirkpatricks and i would prefer yellow daughters than the blue daughters. I dont have many red stock hen but do have a fair few mealy stock hens. Do you think that is i put my yellow cock birds to my red and mealy stock hens i would get yellow daughters and red sons

 

cheers mate

 

Yes that`s right kraftykev , yellow cock x red hen will give you yellow daughters and red sons.

 

Also yellow cock x blue hen ,any yellows or silvers from this pairing will be hens ,all daughters will be easy to spot from these pairings as they will have short down .

[Froog]

Have u tried it m8 ?

Think youll find it fairly accurate if done properly.

Tried it this year with 12 babies from Tumley, this method said 6 cocks / 6 hens...turned out 4 cocks / 8 hens.....youd be as well toss a coin

[JohnQuinn]

do use actually believe that sh..e,if that were true why do you need to get parrots sexed

 

A had tae tell a farmer how tae sex his ckickens, so parrot lovers maybe no that clever either :wacko:

[Froog]

A had tae tell a farmer how tae sex his ckickens, so parrot lovers maybe no that clever either :wacko:

Parrots need surgically sexed, no ifs and buts, and no gold ring on a string will sex them.

[Guest johnhunter]

Parrots need surgically sexed, no ifs and buts, and no gold ring on a string will sex them.

ok john

[Guest johnhunter]

A had tae tell a farmer how tae sex his ckickens, so parrot lovers maybe no that clever either :wacko:

and how did you go about that john,

[JohnQuinn]

and how did you go about that john,

 

Not by the above method !! but if that didnae work it would surely be illegal tae sell contraptions that claim to be for that sole purpose even tae us flat caps and whippets.