Buying chicks

[pattypenny]

I have bought chicks by ordering from a hatchery, yesterday I bought chicks from a local feed store. they said they were pullets and was $ 2.29 each now I am wondering if I bought roosters, have anyone eles bought chicks from a feed store and did they get pullets when they were suppose to be pullets. Is this price about what most places charge for pullets?

 

[Domestic_goddess]

Feed stores usually buy from Hatcheries and order sexed pullets, problem being they are usually only 90% accurate. The majority should be pullets. I've bought chicks from the feed store and always got pullets, probably by pure luck. I think $2.29 is a good price, I've paid more. Good luck!

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

If your feed store ordered pullets then $2.29 is a good price, but remember when sexing these guys you don't always get it right so there will be a few males in the batch.

Steve

 

[pattypenny]

I realize that when sexing chicks some roosters will slip thro' but I wondered if maybe they all would be roosters. I bought 10 and am hoping for 5 pullets . They were advertised as Araucana pullets and I know they are Ameraucana I just hope that some are pullets.

 

[grandmaof5]

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oh dear; I wonder when someone with more knowledge than I will chime in on this...

 

[redhawkou812]

We bought 8 from a local feed store last year as pullets, and they were all pullets

 

[pattypenny]

I realize that hatchery chicks are called easter egger chickens because most people say they are "mutts' and not Ameraucana as true to the breed but I wanted some chicks that layed blue/green eggs and I have limited funds so I bought the feed store chicks.

 

[sgtmom52]

My little Ma & Pa feed store uses a small hatchery in PA called Hoffman Hatchery. The pre-sexed chicks I got from them were pullets. Unfortunately my little feed store is going out of business.

They always ordered a big variety of chickens and other fowl. I also liked that fact that they were very knowledgeable about the chicks they were selling. I think I paid $3.00 each for them. Since TSC doesn't have the breeds of chicks I want I had to buy a bator and now will hatch my own.