Ideal Poultry is selling day-old chicks. Male and female Welsummer chicks do not look drastically different at hatch.Welsummer are an auto-sexing breed (different feather pattern/shade) so this seems unacceptable to me…
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Ideal Poultry is selling day-old chicks. Male and female Welsummer chicks do not look drastically different at hatch.Welsummer are an auto-sexing breed (different feather pattern/shade) so this seems unacceptable to me…
They do, but the characteristics are not always all that clear.Ideal Poultry is selling day-old chicks. Male and female Welsummer chicks do not look drastically different at hatch.
That would be why I said they are not "drastically" different. I am not saying they are identical, just that the differences are not going to be obvious to people who are handling many different breeds of chicks and are not experts on any of them.They do, but the characteristics are not always all that clear.
The only issue I’ve run into with ideal is that I ordered red sex links, and they sent a mix of production reds and Rhode Island reds. All pullets though. But they definitely will fill at their discretion if they don’t have the stock.
If they state they look exactly like production reds or hatchery Rhode Island Red in their breed description of sex links, then that’s just a gimmick to be able to offload more of their production reds etc. They literally have pictures of their take on red sex links, and they sent me couple different breeds that looked exactly like their pics of the aforementioned breeds. They definitely weren’t sex links.How do you know they sent the wrong kind? Based on what I read in their descriptions, some of the Red Sexlink types would look exactly like that.
The point of sexlinks is that they can be sexed by color at hatch. Production Reds and Rhode Island Reds are not color-sexable at hatch.If they state they look exactly like production reds or hatchery Rhode Island Red in their breed description of sex links, then that’s just a gimmick to be able to offload more of their production reds etc.
Did you get any males? If you had no males, then there is really no way to tell whether your chicks were actually sexlinks (males look different) or Production Reds (males & females are colored alike.)They literally have pictures of their take on red sex links, and they sent me couple different breeds that looked exactly like their pics of the aforementioned breeds. They definitely weren’t sex links.