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When people buy hatching eggs they get "straight run" chicks from them. As for yourself, if you want to hatch chicks and sell them, but sell only females. . . There's a few ways to easily do it.
Your Easter Egger rooster - What color is he? Does he have any light yellow or pale yellowish white on him? Does he have white on him? If he does not, he's eligible for sex-linked offspring. Even if he is, if you have a barred rock hen - There ya go. The easiest sex-linking around.
A Barred rock hen x Easter Egger rooster will give you Easter Egger chicks with green to olive green colored eggs, the males will hatch out with a white dot on their heads, females will not. That way you can hatch a lot, and sell the females in an instant. But indeed there still is the male issue. . . Those, you can either sell or eat. I know a lot of people don't like the thought of eating their own chicken, but it's far more humane, cost effective, and tastier than the storebought stuff.
I hatched several times from an EE rooster over BR hens. They ALL had white dots on their heads. I could only tell after a week. The pullets were all black and the cockerals were all barred.
