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How can you determin the sex of young chickens? hens or roosters?

I have young 6 week old chickens.. Does anyone no how i can tell which ones will be hens or roosters?

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1. I saw it on dirty jobs, you have to squeeze them so that their little "areas" poke out (be careful, other stuff will come out first), if it is a round bump you've got a rooster, if not, it's a chicken.
2. Dirty Jobs...great show. http://www.channels.com/catalog/playlist/826/dirty-jobs#catalog/bookmark/7268/chicken-sexer
3. You can tell by looking at the feathers around their neck. Males will have pointy feathers and females will be rounded. There are lots of ideas on how to sex chickens,we try this method and get a 95% sucess rate. We also breed chickens and use this method.
4. Thinkin' about getting into cockfighting are ya? You do realize that it's illegal and the fines are huge and there can even be a jail sentence!
5. easy way wait for few months male will have red crowns on their head while females wont......u can also guess by the behavior ...aggressive one is the male...i had fighting roosters, n the male chickens usually become aggressive to each other
6. if you could email me pictures i could probly tell you. You need to say what breed also. Roo's will have a redder comb now...maybe some roosterly feathers too. If you have pictures send them to ashleyb73448@yahoo.com and id be glad to help you!