Show difficult to determine sex of young chickens experienced find it hard to realize how cult it Is for the inexperienced inexperience to tell ell the sex of chickens even nt at three months of age cases caes are known of cockerels cockerell cocker els of that age being sh shipped shimpei ippeI us its pullets with tile the very ivery best intention on the part of tile the seller the storrs station gives the helpful directions for dete detecting ct the males perhaps the surest purest ant and most sat method of determining hie sex of those individuals about which one Is uncertain Is 14 to examine th the e feathers on the lie hat back k and saddle on the lie mates males these theae feathers will be long and pointed white while tile the edges will wil show 11 characteristic sheen and no an absence of the lie haroules har hules which wh 1 c 1 give g iva the web of an ordinary feather its solid appen appearance rance in other words tile the ends of the barbs on the back feathers of a cockerel are perfectly smooth and there Is a very definite sanc between them the pullet feathers on tile the other hand have a short rounded bounded and oni blunt appearance an entire of sh shen sheen en so that the whole of tile the web presents the same general appearance if these difference are hep in mini mind there will be very few individuals in tile the flock which cannot clint lot be correctly classified as to sex |