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by tomp 1493 days ago
If you’re interested in “hard to describe features that can be learned with enough expiration”, look up chick sexing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing#Vent_sexing

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Interesting field. You have to breed a couple of males to maintain the species. If you were to pick those from the mis-sexed group I suppose natural selection would reduce the classifying feature over time. I wonder if poultry farms pick a couple of the male-classified birds to maintain a stock of well identifiable males and kill all the mis-classified males.