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Auto-sexing breeds of poultry are those in which the sex of newly-hatched chicks can be determined from the colour and markings of the down. Some breeds of chicken , [ 1 ] : 53 of goose and of domestic pigeon have this characteristic. [ 2 ]
The Legbar is a rare British auto-sexing breed of chicken. It was created in the early twentieth century by Reginald Crundall Punnett and Michael Pease at the Genetical Institute of Cambridge University. [8]: 318 They cross-bred American barred Plymouth Rock birds with brown Leghorns and created the gold and silver colour varieties.
The concept of an auto-sexing chicken breed goes back to the work of Reginald Punnett in the 1920s and 1930s. [10]: 6 The Bielefelder Kennhuhn was developed in the 1970s in the area of Bielefeld, in Ostwestfalen-Lippe in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. [4]
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Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014). Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male.