3/8 cockerels...seriously?

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suburbchick

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Apr 9, 2015
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I bought a new batch of bantam chicks. I tried a different hatchery...chickens for backyards... and at 6 weeks I am pretty confident in saying 3/8 chicks I ordered are crockerels. 3 barred rocks appear to be Roos out of 5. That's a REALLY bad sex selecting percentage.
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Anybody else have experience with this hatchery? I should have stuck with MPC.

The 3 in question are super grey and have significantly bigger combs. The 2 girls are way more blackish and have tiny combs....Grrrr.

Thoughts anyone?

Also, how to sex 6 week old RIR with pics please? Thank you!

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Argh. I was hoping I would be wrong. Yes, sexed pullets. I just posted my RIR chicks from same hatchery. I have no clue in regard to those chicks as this is my first time with RIRs.
 
suburbchick said:
Argh. I was hoping I would be wrong. Yes, sexed pullets. I just posted my RIR chicks from same hatchery. I have no clue in regard to those chicks as this is my first time with RIRs.
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Yes, those aren't good odds at all, but other than My Pet Chicken, I wasn't aware that any hatchery sold sexed bantams.
 
Yes, they sell sexed bantams but, apparently, not accurately!

From their website:

Chickens for Backyards

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Bantams - Sexed
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Bantams - Unsexed
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