0
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.
Wiki User
∙ 16y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Can a chicken produce a chick without a rooster?
No. A chicken can produce eggs without a rooster but she can not produce a chick without her eggs being fertilized by a rooster.
What is the difference between a rooster and a white silky hen?
Nothing. Hen, laying hen, broiler hen. The amount of feed they receive and the age they live to is about the only difference. The laying hen will live to produce eggs and the broiler hen will eat well until she reaches optimal weight and be processed into meat.
What is a young fowl called?
A really dumb rooster :-)
Do babies come from eggs?
There is only one small difference between the eggs you buy from the grocery store and eat for breakfast and the eggs used to produce chicks. That difference is called a germinal disc. The eggs you buy from a store are not fertilized by a rooster and will never produce a chick. Fertile eggs come from a flock of chickens that have an active rooster mating with them. The germinal disc is so small it is almost invisible to the human eye.
Is rooster laying egg?
Do you mean, can a rooster lay an egg? The answer is no. Only hens can lay an egg. Do you mean, will a rooster incubate an egg till it hatches? The answer is no, only hens incubate the eggs. Occasionally a rooster that doesn't know any better will sleep in the nestbox but he is not there to incubate and could actually break and eat the egg instead. Do you mean, will a rooster chick hatch out of an egg? Yes, both roosters and hens come from eggs.
Can a chicken produce a chick without a rooster?
No. A chicken can produce eggs without a rooster but she can not produce a chick without her eggs being fertilized by a rooster.
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 a baby rooster called?
A chick.
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.
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 the rooster and hen pass on their characteristics to the chick?
By the DNA in the Genomes in the Genes in the Chromatin Network in the Nucleolus in the Nucleus of the Cell of the Rooster and the Hen.
