Chickens have belly buttons!

[Biciclista]

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?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Too cute!
I used to have ducks.
I thought you had that chick on a baby blanket at first- then I realized it was a paper towel. lol!

[GLC1968]

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.

[malkin]

*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!

[smilingcat]

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?

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.

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.

[malkin]

Am I the only one that thinks it's funny that smilingcat is posting about checking baby chick vents?

[staceysue]

I don't think I want to check their vents. The belly buttons were enough for me.

[TxDoc]

Oh my God that is soooo cute!!!

[arielmoon]

Yet people eat them when they grow up.