Hatcheries sexed chick accuracy?

[Duckee]

What hatchery did your sexed chicks come from? How accurate was their sexing rate?
I got my 8 chicks at local feed store that had hoovers chick boxes laying around. Of my 8, 3 are sex links. Of the 5 (marked as pullets) remaining, 3 look like possible roos! 2 easter eggers, and 1 Black australorp.
Made me curious about hatcheries sexing rates and which one is more reliable?

 

[azygous]

None are 100% because some breeds are extremely hard to sex. Wyandottes have one of the highest "accidental roos" rate. I have five Easter Egger chicks that I tried to wing sex to verify sex at one day old when they came in at TSC a month ago. One appears it's going to be an accidental roo.

The only way to get close to a high mark in sexing would be to get auto sex breeds such as Cream Legbars and Welsummers and Cuckoo Marans, but I got three accidental roos when I ordered some of those from MyPetChicken five years ago. They contract with Meyer Hatchery. Privett Hatchery is the one that supplies my local TSC.

 

[Duckee]

Im usually pretty good at picking out pullets, but with the stores covid 19 rules here you are hurded around the chick bins in a distant line and arent able to handle the chicks at all until after purchase. So i may not have done so well picking this time.

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

I ordered from Hoover's Hatchery. I got fifteen chicks. Two sadly died within two days of arrival. The other thirteen were all hens.

The batch before that, I got nine chickens from Tractor Supply. One of the three RIRs was a roo, all of those chicks were from the pullet bins.

Recently I got four chicks from the straight-run bantam bin, one or two of those is a cockerel as far as I know.

I know what you mean about not being able to handle them before purchase though, it is quite irritating, partly because you just want to hold the adorable babies!

 

[Duckee]

Oh sweet! Hopefully all my hoovers will be pullets too! I posted the 4 eggers for sexing at 4- 6 weeks and the pros are saying so far pullets. My roodar just keeps alarming on a couple though. This is one time I hope I am dead wrong! Lol

 

[azygous]

"Roodar". Good term.