Post your straight-run M/F ratio, let's see if hatcheries are honest

[Carpe DiHen]

I bought six sexed to be pullets from MPC and got 3 roos!!!!!!

 

[Carpe DiHen]

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Edited to say "Sorry if this irrelevant to this thread...."

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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[Ridgerunner]

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To me it is a question of honesty. Straight run should be pulled randomly from the incubator before any sexed chickens are pulled, just like you said. Otherwise they are not straight run.

I don't do the Cornish cross meat birds. Out of curiosity, are the Cornish crosses sex linked, maybe a dark Cornish as the father and a White Rock as the mother? If the person pulling the chicks can tell what sex they are by color, then that says a lot about the honesty of the hatchery.

While this will not count in your meat bird statistics, I ordered 6 straight run Speckled Sussex and got 4 roosters and 2 pullets. I also ordered 6 Straight run Buff Orps and got 7 pullets. Even the packing peanut was a pullet. The order was from Cackle.

 

[sfessler]

25 "SLOW" cornish cross from Privett, straight run, 8 roosters and 17 hens.

BTW, never order the slow ones as they are very slow. I am at 12.5 weeks and barely 4 lbs processed weight.

 

[kountrydoc]

15 RIR, 5 Dominiques, and 5 Delawares from Myers Hatchery. 25 Female 0 Male. Ordered straight run

 

[stanglover2001]

26 CornishX from Welp, thinking 11 male and 15 female but was sure I had 50/50 when I first got them (at least I tried feather sexing

) so we'll see when I butcher.

 

[harleyjo]

I ordered from Oak Hill Hatchery in Iowa and got 12 roos and 13 females Cornish X. I love this small hatchery. Very reasonable prices too. I got these in May and am getting ready to order for their last hatch date which is Sept. 7th I think. They need 5 weeks lead time on this.

 

[Thomas423]

24 cornish roasters (not x) from McMurray...straight run....9 males 15 females.

Which, if anyone is interested...I was very happy with going with the roasters. We processed at 9 and 10 weeks. All were large roasters. We had no health problems from them and I did not remove their food. They just pigged out, pooped and slept.

 

[DaveBeaty]

I picked two chicks (out of 18) from the "straight run" box at Old Mill feed store. Two roosters