Amberlink chickens

[bigz1983]

Hey everyone,
My Aunt Betty bought 8 "Amberlink sexed pullets"(not straight run)from Family farm&home about 4 months ago.

She told me today that 5 of them ended up being roosters and only 3 ended up being hens.
I told her that its strange that the hatchery would mess up so bad because the Amberlink is a color sexed linked commercial hybrid.

Well after doing some research on Amberlinks I found out they are not a color sex link hybrid.
They are a feather sexed link hybrid that can only be gendered from wing tip length from 1-10 days old.

I did some more research and I found that many more people have had a problem with getting roosters from stores selling "Amberlink sexed pullets" from farm stores.

So why even bother making such a hybrid? Isn't the whole point of sex link is its easy to tell the gender?

Isn't that kind of a waste of time for the commercial egg industry too?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ever think these farm stores are buying straight run and selling them as pullets?

 

[bigz1983]

Ever think these farm stores are buying straight run and selling them as pullets?

Yeah that makes sense.
That's mean.
So the commercial farms get the correctly sexed Amberlinks and the farm stores don't?

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I'm sure you probably checked, but did you make sure she actually got 8 Amberlinks? Farm stores are terrible about getting chicks mixed up, most of the employees have no clue how to tell the breeds apart. A friend of ours bought 50 Amberlink pullets and only got 1 cockerel.

 

[bigz1983]

I believe they are all Amberlinks.
I told her to get ISA Brown's next time they are easier to gender.

 

[Trish1974]

Hey everyone,
My Aunt Betty bought 8 "Amberlink sexed pullets"(not straight run)from Family farm&home about 4 months ago.

She told me today that 5 of them ended up being roosters and only 3 ended up being hens.
I told her that its strange that the hatchery would mess up so bad because the Amberlink is a color sexed linked commercial hybrid.

Well after doing some research on Amberlinks I found out they are not a color sex link hybrid.
They are a feather sexed link hybrid that can only be gendered from wing tip length from 1-10 days old.

I did some more research and I found that many more people have had a problem with getting roosters from stores selling "Amberlink sexed pullets" from farm stores.

So why even bother making such a hybrid? Isn't the whole point of sex link is its easy to tell the gender?

Isn't that kind of a waste of time for the commercial egg industry too?

That's good to know; I thought they were sex-linked as well.
Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the Family Farm & Home store here switched to Hoover's hatchery from Townline hatchery this year. I've not heard any complaints about their chicks until this year. I'm sure being a chain the switch was store wide. Maybe Hoover isn't quite up to par in either sexing or ethics as Townline?? Just think its odd FFH is just now getting TSC-type complaints about their chicks.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm just curious if some of these places

That's good to know; I thought they were sex-linked as well.
Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the Family Farm & Home store here switched to Hoover's hatchery from Townline hatchery this year. I've not heard any complaints about their chicks until this year. I'm sure being a chain the switch was store wide. Maybe Hoover isn't quite up to par in either sexing or ethics as Townline?? Just think its odd FFH is just now getting TSC-type complaints about their chicks.

Hoover's seems to be a mess and that is where our TSC gets their birds and that's always a mess.
I just wondered how honest the smaller places are about their puller bins actually being pullets and not straight run.
I think ambers should be easily sexed with decent accuracy.
I know we have a small place here that sells pan fry which are almost all if not all cockerels but they don't share that info. I always see people buying them up because they're cheap but they are clueless they aren't buying pullets.

 

[bigz1983]

What's "Pan fry"?