I think Ideal Poultry sold me tons of roosters and I paid for all pullets

[s678865567]

I recently ordered all pullets from Ideal Poultry. It was my starting over hatch after getting rid all my other birds and quarantining for several months. They guarantee them to be girls within 90%. They are now a month old. I have three orders of different ages. The younger ones it is too early to tell but the older ones at a month old are forming combs much bigger than the other chickens. I may have close to 50% with combs bigger than the rest of the other birds. Can someone please look at these and tell me that they are not straight run instead of pullets? Are these baby roosters?

 

[skeeeter]

Hi. If those barred chicks are BPR, you can see that cockerals are lighter colored than pullets. Those chicks look all dark to me. Also, what breed is the white one?

 

[azygous]

Yes, it appears you have a slew of cockerels, all right. This same thing happened to me about eight years ago with MyPetChicken. When the suspected chicks were around ten weeks old, it was very easy to tell that they were cockerels due to developed combs and sickle tail feathers emerging from their butts. I sent the photographic proof to them, and they sent me pullets in replacement.

They apologized and said some employee must have grabbed the chicks from the straight run bins instead of the pullet drawers. Call Ideal and ask about their replacement policy for errors such as this.

It really mattered to me because these chicks cost $50 each. I got to keep the cockerels. Most I rehomed, but still have one Cream Legbar roo. He's a perfect boy in every way, including having been free of cost.

 

[s678865567]

Ideal Poultry said it is too early to tell males from females so they will not do anything. Not sure what happens in a few more months when these are roosters cause I am pretty sure they are boys....

 

[gimmie birdies]

They will give you your money back probably or ship you more.
I hatched out some chicks, and now at 3 months they finally look like girls...
Below Tod-just hatched

Tod at 2 months?

Below was other Frank at hatch

Below other Frank at 2 months.

 

[s678865567]

They will give you your money back probably or ship you more.
I hatched out some chicks, and now at 3 months they finally look like girls...
Below Tod-just hatched
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Tod at 2 months?
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Below was other Frank at hatch
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Below other Frank at 2 months.
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Your chickens are very cute but it's hard to think mine are gonna be girls....there is distinct combs from the other ones their age on many of them...maybe half. The ones that I'm sure are girls have almost no combs at all.

 

[TillyPeeps]

All of the barred chicks have single barring, so they should be girls unless they are some kind of mix (EE, OE, etc.) . It's too early to say about the white one.

 

[TaylorGlade]

That same thing happened to us with ideal. A local farm store used ideal as their source. We were supposed to get 10 Australorp pullets with the 10% of one roo. We ended up with 9 cockerels and one pullet. Since we bought them from a feed store, ideal would not work with us. And the feed store refused to do anything but give me a $20 bag of feed which I wouldn't feed my chickens. We ended up having to rehome every one of them. Because of this, I will not deal with that company or any feed store that sources from them

 

[azygous]

No, Ideal won't do anything about this until the chicks are old enough to tell gender. At ten weeks there will be enough signs that you will be able to give Ideal photo proof of gender. Then they will give you a refund for the cockerels.

 

[Flockking]

As at now I don't think there's a call for alarm
Nothing says male on them, at least in my own perspective