Feather sexing White Leghorn chicks

[A.T. Hagan]

I just received an order of Pearl White Leghorns from McMurray and find I have a problem. There are fifty pullet chicks and five cockerel chicks, but they weren't marked so I can't tell which is which. I want to keep the cockerels and sell about half the pullets so how do I tell them apart? I know they can be feather sexed but I haven't done this yet so does anyone have a link or resource I can review? And how long can this be done before they become indistinguishable?

Thanks much!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Never mind. Just got off the phone with McMurray and they cannot be feather sexed as I thought they could. Grumble, grumble, grumble...

 

[gryeyes]

My TJs chicks appear to be following the commonly believed (by me, too) route of pullet's growing tail feathers long before the cockerels do. Plus, the same one taking a while to feather out (compared to the others) was the one hatching upside down and when I got it out of the shell, it had the tiniest little comb ALREADY.

Dunno if that will help or not.