Sooo much pooping

[KateG]

That you can sex a baby by the colour of it's feathers as a 2 week old? A friend on FB has just got 3 beautiful hens through the living eggs program. She's been told that all males have yellow feathers and females don't. I'd never heard this- I thought it was hard to tell until they developed further?

[Olly]

You can sex some breeds by the colour of their feathers. It isn't true for all breeds!

[Redwing]

these sorts of programmes often use sex linking as a sexing method

 

Very briefly one parent will be genetically silver and one parent genetically gold, the offspring can be sexed on hatching - the boys are yellow and the girls amber

 

This is the method they use at most commercial hatcheries and the one that provides the standard brown hen often used for egg supply on an intensive scale - in that case boys are culled on hatching