Straight Run???

[Featherwisp]

I have no idea what "straight run" means. Can anybody help me out??

 

[Karrie13]

Straight run means both pullets and roos.... of course you may get more roos then pullets!

(edited to change will to may)

 

[hobbyfarmrookie]

Straight run means you do not know the sex of the chicken. There are some breeds where you can tell by feathers (sex link), some breeds the pros can tell, for the average person we have to wait and see.

 

[isaacearlg]

Straight run means you get whatever hatches and the chicks are not sexed. Meaning you will get males and females and there's no gurantee what you will get.

 

[The Wolf Queen]

Assorted genders (you have no choice on how many of how many of each you get). Its cheaper and bantams are too small to be sexed. All standards come straight run to though.

 

[mwdh1]

The term "straight run" is interchangeable with "as hatched". That being said, it should be roughly a 50/50 split of males and females, but rarely ends up that way.

 

[Featherwisp]

Oh, ok. Kept seeing that on craigslist posts, was wondering what it meant!
Thanks for the info.

 

[RAWR]

straight run is another way of saying "your stuck with whatever you get, like it or not, sorry about your luck." so you know.

 

[Davaroo]

The standard hatch ratio is commonly accepted as being 50:50 male to female. As the others have said (well a few), you get a roughly equal proportion of males to females when they hatch as "straight run."

 

[ChickenCat]

Hey, I'm lucky! I picked 6 banties at TSC........... straight run? 50/50? I got 1 roo and 5 little girls! What were the odds of that?

Too bad I wasn't in Vegas betting.