The thing is that most people just assume that hatcheries sell pure bred birds and don't want to here that they got taken.
I have and have had hatchery stock and they are ok for what they are, hatchery chickens and none of them come remotely close to what the bird should look like. I have had...
So that you know a Hybrid is a cross breed,
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To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
If hatcheries sell "hybrids" then they sell cross bred chicken.
Like I said before, You can believe what you will about hatcheries and there birds, but I have seen the cross...
You can believe what you will but I will let you know that every bird you named in your post are cross breds. You can candy coat a name by calling it a Hybrid but it it still a cross bred.
Anybody can call a cross bred chicken a Hybrid but it will not make it anymore a breed,
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Most if not all hatcheries sell Large Fowl chicks that can be sexed at day by there feather growth, it is a process called feather sexing and these birds are crossed in order to feather sex them.
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A hatchery will have a fast feathering line of a breed and a normal feathering line of that...
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That is wishful thinking! McMurry, Cackle, Ideal, Mt. Healthy, Town Line the list can go on and they all sell cross bred chickens.
Don't believe me, Sex-links, Production Meat Breeds, Production Egg Layers and Easter Eggers are cross bred fowl and are sold at nearly every hatchery also...