Red Sex Links-hens?

[Samjoe]

Thanks for clarifying!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

We were obviously douped by two local licensed Hatcheries who assured us that our pair of GA Roses and Barred Rocks were sexed as pullets. I will be messaging both today looking for explainations.

Vent sexing (which is what is done at the hatcheries - with the exception of sex linked chicks) is 90-95% accurate. Once you understand the process involved you can understand why it is not 100%.

 

[Cdr621]

I actually do know what is involved as my husband has explained it to me. Just stinks that one hatchery was 50% accurate and the other 66%. We had 100% accuracy with a local Ace Hardware.

 

[Cdr621]

And these GA Roses were described to us as sex linked chicks.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I actually do know what is involved as my husband has explained it to me. Just stinks that one hatchery was 50% accurate and the other 66%. We had 100% accuracy with a local Ace Hardware.

You are looking at just the few birds you purchased and using that to base the overall success rate, the 90-95% is based on the entire hatches that the hatchery produces and sexes. When you purchase just 2-3 of each breed, any one of those 5-10% of missexed chicks that end up in YOUR box (BTDT and I do understand how frustrating it can be) it skews your perception of how well the hatchery did overall. With 5-10% mis-sexing *someone* is going to end up getting those surprise cockerels, unfortunately this time it was you twice. That does not, though, mean you were in any way "duped".

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Unless you feel the duping was in regards to what you thought were sex-links? Were you told they were Red Sex Links or did you think GA Rose (made up "breed" name, btw) were sex-linked chicks?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

What breeds does the hatchery offer? It may be that the chicks you were given were mistakenly sorted into the RSL pullet bin at hatch - but that would only be one possible cause if they offer a production red type breed (or really poor hatchery grade RIR).
True Sex Links should be 100% accurate on sexing - that's the whole point. So if you were told you have sex-linked pullets of the RSL persuasion and have ended up with not only the wrong gender, but the wrong breed entirely I do understand the frustration - - this is part of the problem with all the made up names people like to stick on RSL/BSL in an attempt to make them sound more intriguing (personally I think if one understands the crossing that goes into RSL/BSL it's plenty intriguing on it's own), because it confuses things.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I feel l may be coming across wrong - and I apologize for that.

 

[Cdr621]

No worries, I appreciate the information as we are new chicken parents! I was referring to these chicks in particular because when my husband spoke to the lady at the hatchery she assured us that these were a special breed of sex linked chicks and her website confirmed the information she had given us. Of course, now the website has changed saying they can't guarantee even the sex links.
I definitely feel "duped" as we were given misleading information. We have grown attached to these guys and now we are going to have to go through the process of finding them a new home as we only live on an acre lot, in a residential neighborhood within city limits.

http://mjhatcheries.com/our-breeding-stock.html

 

[Cdr621]

And yes now we are unsure of the breed because they don't resemble what she describes as the GA Roses. The look like RIR's.