When You Ordered Pullets, How Many Were Roos?

[CarrieW]

I ordered 25 all female chicks from MPC, all different breeds. I ordered 3 Neked Necks, so far 1 of those is a roo. Can't tell with the rest yet.

 

[Wheels]

I order 28 from myers. I place an order for 26 pullets and 2 roos and that what I got.

 

[gryeyes]

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Same here, same feed store - we've already compared notes! - and I picked all pullets, got 1 roo out of 12.

I bought two bantam cochins from a farm about 5 weeks old, supposedly pullets, and 1 was a roo. (Thought he'd be so adorable, and he was, but that's the last chicken my dog captured, with fatal consequences. For the cochin... Nearly for the dog, too.)

I've branched out into feed store straight run bantam Sebrights and am crossing my fingers I am LUCKY.

Hope none of the four are roos... but only time will tell. Picked up a Delaware and a white EE at the same time from the pullet bin, can't tell yet if the sexing was accurate. Oh, a different feed store sold me two other bantams from a "straight run" bin, but they were about 3 weeks old and the employee "believed" they were pullets. I think they're gonna "stay" pullets.

 

[Cat's Coop]

- Ordered 26 pullets + 1 free from McMurray Hatchery and only the free one was a roo.

- Ordered 30 pullets from Ideal Hatchery and all were pullets!

So 100% pullets!!!! Got lucky although the unwanted free roo has been the kid's favorite by far! Black Brahma Roo

 

[Laurajean]

It doesn't matter to me where you got them, mail or locally, but I do want to know how many roos were in a batch that you were TOLD would all be females. So if you ordered a straight run (mixed) my question doesn't even apply. I'm just curious how many "pullet only" batches turned out with roos.

Interesting variety of answers so far. I got mine from MyPetChicken also, and had originally ordered 8, but one was a tiny runt who didn't make it.

Not their fault, she was just really tiny. I have 5 Silkies, a Mille Fleur D'Uccle and what I'm pretty sure is a Cochin. The D'Uccle has me worried because it acts so differently, feathers early on, first one to perch (still the only one at 3 weeks old) and scream like a lunatic if you hold it. But, I posted this in a D'Uccle section and many D'Uccle owners say this is common behavior for that breed hens included.

So I'm crossing my fingers. I really hope they are all female.

 

[kipper]

25 pullets last year from Welp (via Privett), 2 turned out to be roos.

Same order this year, too young to tell.

I hatched 8 Mille Fluer d'Uccles along witha few other breeds this year; they feather out quickly, are noisy, and have an upright stance. Very fiesty. All of mine look exactly alike, either they are all boys or all girls or they are just hard to tell about when young. Mine are 20 days old.

I think it's all up to the person doing the sexing and luck.

 

[wolftracks]

October I ordered 25 pullets and got 26 pullets from MPC.

 

[farmerKEN]

My local TSC only sells sexlink pullets, so 10/10 were pullets.
My 2 straight run were both male.

 

[Laurajean]

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Feisty, yes that's the word. Loud and alert, she was the first of the chicks to tilt her head and look up at me as I watched from the top of the brooder, she's a perching pro and so far is the only chick to try out the "I've got something in my beak - everyone chase me! game" She'll run around screaming with a scrap in her mouth. It's funny but a little sad because they others don't play along. She chirps LOUDLY the whole time I am holding her, although in the last few days she has at least started to doze off in my hand. They are 23 days.

Have you ever had adult D'Uccles? One poster told me that they mellow out drastically as adults, and I was wondering if anyone else found that to be the case.

 

[sally4500]

I ordered 12 and got 2 roos. One was nasty, the other was not. That was 15 years ago. I just got 8 chicks that are now 3 weeks old. They are suppose to be all females. We'll see.