Buying Straight Run Code for Cockerels?

[YellowRoseFarm]

Hi all, just a random question here. The chicks in my local farm stores (TSC and Atwoods) are all from either Ideal Poultry or Hoover's. I see many breeds that are sold as sexed pullets and then there are those straight run bins. Am I just not "in the know" and is straight run really code for a bin full o' dudes? I recently bought the most adorable little lavender orpington chicks from the straight run bin and I'm hoping for at least ONE pullet out of the 4 I have. TIA!

 

[Percheron chick]

Unfortunately, the odds are it will be super heavy towards dudes for the simple fact that pullets are in short supply this year.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

St run chicks are pulled before sexed chicks are supposedly for hatchery orders. However people seem to get lots of males for feed stores for some reason. My st runs from my local store have always been either pullet heavy or 50-50

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Straight Run=Not Sexed. Mine have always been about 50/50 as well, but it really is the luck of the draw.

 

[YellowRoseFarm]

Well, here's hoping St. Brigid is on my side this time. I know straight run means unsexed, but I wondered if there was a reason they went through all the trouble to sex some breeds and not others before shipping them off to the feed store. Thanks!

 

[Saveria]

There is always a chance. Kind of like a casino, right? The house makes the rules.

 

[YellowRoseFarm]

Well, unofficially, I've got a feeling that I've got 50/50 only because 2 have barely any wing feathers and 2 have a lot. We'll see. I've been wrong before! Regardless, I'm keeping the one that I picked that had fallen asleep on the food in the bin. This bird gets me.

 

[mcdze]

nothing wrong with getting a 'good' rooster either, you just dont want a whole flock of roosters right lol ...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well, here's hoping St. Brigid is on my side this time. I know straight run means unsexed, but I wondered if there was a reason they went through all the trouble to sex some breeds and not others before shipping them off to the feed store. Thanks!

Just depends on what the store orders