Show determining SEX OF CHICKS certain marks by which pullets may be distinguished from cocker els after hatching by C 9 ANDERSON DEnSON AN colorado agricultural fol college leee rort port colllns collins colo with the rapidly growing day old chick industry the ho question of sex determination naturally arises anny buyers would like to order till nil pullet pullets nil all cockerels cockerell cocker els or a given number of 11 ll c I 1 all and I 1 would ile be glad to pay liny an all additional dit ional price f for or thid hits assurance the sex of harried barred plymouth rock chicks call bo be told with a reasonable degree of the pullet tins lias a darl dark willow colored beak sometimes streaked with black it Is of finer bono than the cockerel filid and the logy legg are arc dark aud and smoky colored tile cockerel has bright yellow legs and beak and usually at course coarse head und find prominent eye the cockerel Is a gray or for slate color while the pullet Is 18 darker tile white tip of the wings and spot on top of the head bond tire most notice lible on tile the pullet duo due to tile contrast with the deeper black this iveans can only bo used to denote tit the sex the first couple ut of lays days after tills this time they all take on oil the one characteristic blue color the beak and legs rt r t the abo pullet fode fade out to yellow similar methods can be cin employ viol td ed wills nil parti colored breeds with colored birds the die best means ot il determining sex Is the prominent i |