Straight run odds.

[neo71665]

I've always wondered about that. I don't buy chicks from the store but I've always assumed that the hatcheries might put some of their extra cockerels into the straight runs bound for TSC just to fluff out the orders and make a few extra bucks.

This time of year the hatcheries are so backed up they are pumping out chicks, throwing them in a box, and putting them in the mail. All the stores out there ordering 100s if not 1000s of chicks at the same time they are more busy filling orders.
The pullet only hatches the males are normally dispatched right there as soon as they can be sexed. They are not in business to feed chicks on hopes they might sell a few dozen of the males out off all the 100/1000s they sex every year. Hatcheries sell livestock. People on here keep chickens as pets but that isn't the hatchery main concern. The next hatch will have just as many males they have to dispatch. Some animal feed plant up the road will want them to grind up for dog food, reptiles, or raptors. They aint feeding them any longer than they have to and still make money off them dead or alive.

If hatcheries could figure out a way to only hatch pullets the pure breed rooster owned by a normal person would become endangered.

 

[David61]

I tried my hand at vent sexing as the chicks are just a few days old. I saw Mike Row doing on TV (dirty jobs) , you tubed it and looked at pics. If i did it right, i got pullets. Maybe one male or just some poop? I saw something. I don't know. lol May the 1st should tell me for sure.

 

[Ridgerunner]

ok, i put this to the test. I just picked six California tans doing this method The girl at tsc let me pick out of the bin. I stuck my hand down in the bin and got still. They all ran away at first. Then heads popped up and some turned and came at. me. Those got passed over. The ones hanging back, head down, kind of bland got picked. so i got girls or a bunch of sickly runts lol.
who thinks there is something to this?
Whats your guess on the six new chicks?
Check back in five weeks.

Thank you. Please post back on this thread.

 

[ZiaEggcelente]

I got two straight run lavender orpingtons from TSC. It’s too early to sex and I’ve heard orpingtons are especially difficult… but with that said I’m suspicious both of them are cockerels..

 

[David61]

There is an obvious difference in the comb now. I'm not sure if it is sex or genetics as color is in play. These are a hybrid and the feet, legs and comb have diffrent color than the others. Dark feet,legs and dark comb.
pink feet, dark legs, pink comb.
all pink..........


Time will tell but larger comb cries cockerel. I see one roo maybe two but its still early @ 4 weeks.

 

[YellowRoseFarm]

I have 4 lavender orpington chicks from the feed store that are now 3 days old (4?, I dunno). They were straight run and I'm unofficially declaring a 50/50 split on this based solely on the wings. 2 have feathered out a lot more than the other 2. Obviously, this isn't definitive, but I'm testing my hunch and I'll report back.

 

[Klutch]

Are tsc, only allows the employees to pick up the chicks, but if you you do it gently. While their in the box you can lift the chick by the gruff of their neck, and you'll notice the pullet will be docile while the cockerel will try to scratch you.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I had 10 straight run bantams from Orsheln last spring. They were the last ones in the tub and they needed to move for the next batch so I got them half price. 7 out of 10 were pullets.

 

[YellowRoseFarm]

I had 10 straight run bantams from Orsheln last spring that were the last ones in the tub that they needed to move for the next batch so I got them half price. 7 out of 10 were pullets.

This gives me hope!

 

[David61]

by the size of comb and waddles, one is a cockerel for sure, another is suspect but i'm going to have wait on feathers. They are just about fully feathered so this weekend it will be obvious. I'll post some pictures and we will all have a look.