straight run, really? rant...

[klf73]

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It can happen and I have it happen all the time here in my own hatches. I hatched around 37 BLRWs from my own eggs last fall and out of those chicks I got 3 or 4 pullets. This spring out of the SLW eggs (my own) I've hatched I've got 2 pullets to show for it. I have hatched many more cockerals than pullets out of all my breeds this spring/summer. It can and does happen unfortunately.

Straight run means you're willing to take your chances on what sex you get....if you want all pullets buy sexed birds.

I understand it happens, I have been running around 60% cockerals with my own. If trios weren't being sold of a breed I got roo heavy I wouldn't have said anything.

also, what are the odds of getting 5 of one breed to have them all be cockerals? ???

 

[Katy]

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It can happen and I have it happen all the time here in my own hatches. I hatched around 37 BLRWs from my own eggs last fall and out of those chicks I got 3 or 4 pullets. This spring out of the SLW eggs (my own) I've hatched I've got 2 pullets to show for it. I have hatched many more cockerals than pullets out of all my breeds this spring/summer. It can and does happen unfortunately.

Straight run means you're willing to take your chances on what sex you get....if you want all pullets buy sexed birds.

I understand it happens, I have been running around 60% cockerals with my own. If trios weren't being sold of a breed I got roo heavy I wouldn't have said anything.

also, what are the odds of getting 5 of one breed to have them all be cockerals? ???

Did you get them as day olds? Are the trios that they're selling the same age as the chicks you purchased?

I have no idea what the breeder did or didn't do, but I know if I had been selling chicks out of some of my groups of chicks the odds of someone getting 5 cockerals would have been very high last fall and this year......not because I picked any pullets out of the groups....just that there weren't many to begin with.

I can understand your frustration, but that is the chance a person takes with straight run chicks.

 

[Oldhound]

Over the years I have always averaged more males than females in Chickens , Goats , Dogs, and just about every other animal , bird or tropical fish that I raised. Auction buyers BEWARE ! Some people "dump the junk" there , and you can bring home some deadly diseases. And some people in business are just plain crooks.

 

[jimmythechicken]

we had alot of roos this year 2.it is def luck of the draw we 25 black orps an 21 roos. but then we bought 16 bbs orps an looking like 12 pullets so i do believe some people hatch more roos then others.we hatched prob 300 chicks here this year an sell them all as day olds an i make who ever buys them pick them out so there is no you gave me all males.i love when someone buys like 3 -4 chicks an then say you sold me 3 out of 4 roos like i picked them out an was trying to skrew them.we never try to sex our chicks i dont care what they are we sell them all an by the time they are 6-7 weeks old we sell just pullets for more an keep roos for food.i do agree if i bought a bunch of birds got all roos an then there selling a bunch of pullets from same batch you have to wonder.to the people that cant have roos dont buy straitrun please.lol

 

[HHandbasket]

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I have yet to have a breeder sell me a bird and have it actually turn out to be what they said it was, yet I have had excellent correct sexing rates from hatcheries. Go figure.

When I sell my chicks straight run, I often know what they are... however, when you PURCHASE birds straight run, it is always a case of "you get what you get" which is all straight run means.

 

[mikensara]

new with chickens and even though I purposely bought pullets I did end up with one roo. I knew getting a staright run would mean i would likely have more roos than hens. No ones perfect and its like any other creature thats born its a 50/50 chance its either male or female.

 

[Maxbeard]

Guess I got lucky this year, bought eight barred rocks, 4 black sex links, and the last RIR from my feed store (gets them from Ideal) and the only roo was the RIR. I know I had at least 4 pullets, but for the rest I was 8:1. Just luck of the draw.

 

[Msbear]

just a little note about hatching.. I have always heard that the male embryo is slightly stronger than the female embryo so, if there are any issues with incubation, the females would be the first to go. I don't know for a fact if this is true but, it sounds like it could account for why so many folks hatch out more males than females (myself included)

 

[chicken farmer 1997]

thats is stupid and not fair. i would call the hatchery and tell them tht u ordered all pullets and tht u got all cockerals:/

 

[colby318]

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I can walk into TSC and sex the barred rocks. I don't even try for the australorps. Unless they're starting to feather out, I assume they're all cockerels. I bought 28 of the red sex linked pullets and one is a male. I don't know how he beat the color match! His mom must have had a recessive red gene.