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Wow - we're hatching chicks in an incubator for the first time. The chicks actually have umbilical cords which attach to yolk sacs, which attach to membranes attached to the shells . . . . . very much like a human placenta but instead of lining a uterus it lines a shell. Umbilical cords attach to belly buttons - so therefore chickens must have belly buttons!
Never know what you're going to read on a cycling forum, eh?
You own little chickens? Post pictures, please!!!
Don't know why, but I really like chickens... :)
You mean like this one?
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/u...tchedchick.jpg
Newly hatched chick - White Leghorn father, Rhode Island Red mother.
We incubated 7 of our own birds this year. They all hatched on Valentine's day. :)
Awwww!
We had chicks when I was a kid. Sweet to snuggle one in 2 cupped hands and watch its head nod down as it falls asleep.
They grow up so fast though...
GLC, have you sexed the chick yet? Checking through the vent.
haha Smilingcat you're funny.. Do you know how to discern the diff between a male and a female chick by checking through the vent?
Too cute!
I used to have ducks. :p
I thought you had that chick on a baby blanket at first- then I realized it was a paper towel. lol!
Ours were born in Feb - and we didn't sex them then because it really didn't matter to us. Boys become meat birds, girls become layers so we figured we'd just wait.
If I tried to sex them now, I'm sure they'd make me bleed my own blood! ;)
We are pretty sure that we ended up with 4 pullets and 1 cockrel just based on size/features.
*just went back, and now have to giggle at the "olive on a toothpick" and "cocktail onion" bably blanket*
If there were any babies around here, that's the blanket we'd surely have!
Yes you can sex the chicks through their vent. A pro can properly sex a bird with better than 95% accuracy. Someone like me would get it right about 75% of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
just don't try this method backyard chickens.com (too funnyy)
The way I was told to flip the bird upside down and gently squeeze the body so the poop and stuff is excreted, then "open" the vent a bit and look inside. roos have pee-pees of sort. pullets don't
oh just did a search on google and returned this to me pullet/roo?
And oh there is a link to dirtiest job video.
hmmm the latter link says a pro can do it with better than 98% accuracy at a rate of 1000 chicks an hour. :eek:
Am I the only one that thinks it's funny that smilingcat is posting about checking baby chick vents?
I don't think I want to check their vents. The belly buttons were enough for me.
Oh my God that is soooo cute!!!
:)
Yet people eat them when they grow up. :(