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Hard to tell when they are babies. Once they start to grow up it gets easier. The males will develop combs faster and much more pronounced than the hens. That also depends on if you have breeds that will have no comb at all, like a silkie.
In general the hen has a smaller comb.
What else can I help you with?
Can a chicken produce a chick without a rooster?
No, a chicken needs a rooster to fertilize the egg in order for it to develop into a chick. Without the rooster's contribution, the eggs laid by a hen will remain unfertilized and will not hatch into chicks.
What is a young chicken called?
A young chicken is called a chick, a pullet (young hen), or a cockerel (young rooster).
What roll do a rooster play in a chicken laying eggs?
A rooster can't lay an egg, and if it could chickens can't fly so they wouldn't be able to get on top of a house.
How do tell the difference between the leghorn rooster and hen?
Silkies are hard chickens to find out their gender. Either you can vent sex them, which should only be done by a professional because you can hurt or even kill your chick. Or you can just wait until the chicks are old enough to lay eggs or if it crows.
What is the name of baby fowl?
cockerel see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cockerel cockerel see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cockerel cockerel see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cockerel
What is a baby rooster called?
A chick.
What is the difference between a fertile egg and a live egg?
There is nothing different if you are talking about a live egg as there is a chick growing in side of it. a fertile egg is when the daddy rooster make the egg fertile
What is the offspring of a rooster and a hen?
A rooster is a male chicken , A young rooster is a cockerel. A hen is a female chicken, A young hen is a pullet. A castrated Rooster is a Capon A baby chicken of either gender is a chick.
Can a chicken produce a chick without a rooster?
No, a chicken needs a rooster to fertilize the egg in order for it to develop into a chick. Without the rooster's contribution, the eggs laid by a hen will remain unfertilized and will not hatch into chicks.
Do you need a rooster to have a chick?
yes so the egg can get fertilized and a chick can develop (:
What are synonyms for chicken?
chick, rooster, hen
What is the young one of a Rooster?
a female chicken under the age of one year is called a pullet
What do you do if your chick turns out to be a rooster and roosters are not allowed?
Eat it.
What is the difference between a fertilized chick egg and a non fertilized chick egg?
Absolutely nothing if you are not incubating the fertilized ones. There is no visible difference, no nutritional difference and no taste difference.
You have a rooster that keeps attempting to mate with a duck?
My neighbors rooster jumped on their mallard and 3 weeks later the mallard had 1 chick and 2 ducklings. The chick is light and dark brown.
What is the formal male name of chick?
A male chicken is a rooster.
How do chickens combine eggs to make a baby chick?
Chickens combine eggs to make a baby chick through a process called fertilization. When a rooster mates with a hen, the rooster's sperm fertilizes the hen's egg, which then develops into a baby chick inside the egg.
