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To be blunt, you can rent a car for the day and pay for the gas for a 5 hour round trip and still end up spending less than shipping a juvenile or adult chicken, if you don't count time spent... To ship a juvenile or adult bird you need a special USPS approved shipping box, they are about $15 -...

That is something I likely won't be doing, the upright and large combs will be a focus of my normal colored Legbars, so it will inevitably be a focus of my white line as well even if it's not as focused... I'm working on developing my own like of 'blue layers' and for those I will be focusing...

As if the cute name wasn't enough they add insult when they take the 'floppy comb flaw' in the US gene pool and re-invent it as a supposed wanted or desirable 'trait' for the white ones " have a floppy comb"...

The green overtones on the Legbar eggs irks me to no end, but for the white sports the first thing I will be focusing on is preserving autosexing, egg color will probably be the second focus once I get enough good white autosexing breeding stock, and know I have autosexing nailed...

I know you got the ones you have now second hand, but next spring when I start to breed them again you are welcome to more... I'll even have white sports available next spring...

If they do decide to take pictures is should be from directly overhead and from behind (see image at the bottom) and they should try different lighting (indoor/outdoor bright/dim) and different camera settings to see if they can get the chipmunk pattern to pop... The autosexing trait will vary...

That pictures still does not show any determinable chipmunk pattern, so you will likley have to wait it out...

You really need an overhead shot with the proper lighting (need to experiment) to see if you can make out any of the chipmunk pattern before you can really take a stab at guessing the sex...

Well it is something even if you deny it to be something... Fact is you don't need to kill 1000 birds for a bag of animal feed, you are appealing to extremes and worse they are not being killed for animal feed, they are killed because they are an unfortunate byproduct of low cost mass produced...

A vast majority of culled birds end up as animal feed, in animal feed and/or as fertilizer so it's not 'for nothing'... Many animal sanctuaries, rescues and zoos depend on this cheap source of food, and many farmers depend on the cheap fertilizer, it's all part of the cycle of efficiency...

That is how it goes, a vast majority of the population is willfully ignorant of where there food comes from... But in the end are you not as guilty of the same 'behind doors killing' as a hatchery when you sell hens to your consumers and keep the cocks to be culled later? I know you are not...

Pretty much proof positive that the ability to sex is quite important to the industry and consumers/buyers overall... I know around me at the poultry swaps for autosexing breeds, many of the seller pretty much force people to take a rooster as a trio lot or pay a huge premium for just the two...

Yes, it has a purpose if it didn't it would not be a desirable trait and hatcheries would not employ sexers... Fact is not everyone can have roosters, especially in many 'backyard' communities so being able to get 100% hens is a blessing to those people and they will willfully pay more for that...

Time to post in this thread so I get the automatic subscription and remember to keep up... I hatched out a single white sport hen last year and was immediately interested in seeing if I could produce my own line of all whites... Anyway, pairing that single hen up with two potential white sport...