Wing sexing?

[Amer]

Cool!

Still, if you look up breeds, a lot of them have standards for how they're supposed to feather out. So the hatchery still isn't using a to-standard rooster if they're using, for example, a fast-feathering Barred Rock.

Yup. That's why the Barred Rocks are pretty poor. They are actually are cuckoo Rocks.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Yup. That's why the Barred Rocks are pretty poor. They are actually are cuckoo Rocks.

Yep. That's why I chose them as an example. I go to TSC and buy BRs, and I come home and get cuckoo. I look on Ebay and show sites, and I think of the pretty Barred Rocks I could have if I were willing to spend money...

 

[ButteCA]

I’m thinking anyone who wants to buy chickens from tractor supply needs to get good at wing sexing.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I’m thinking anyone who wants to buy chickens from tractor supply needs to get good at wing sexing.

Agree... but may depend on the source hatchery.

 

[The Moonshiner]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL
Where you getting this info?
Very interesting but I find it hard to believe.
It would be a huge project to bring in the fast feathering gene into a slow feathering breed or vice versa. Then keep the genes and get the bird back to standard.
And then maintain a breeding flock of both kinds to produce breeding stock to breed together for the sex able chicks.
Hatcheries breed too many sex links and have been vent sexing forever seems pretty extreme to go through all that when they already have there tested true methods.

 

[Amer]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL
Where you getting this info?
Very interesting but I find it hard to believe.
It would be a huge project to bring in the fast feathering gene into a slow feathering breed or vice versa. Then keep the genes and get the bird back to standard.
And then maintain a breeding flock of both kinds to produce breeding stock to breed together for the sex able chicks.
Hatcheries breed too many sex links and have been vent sexing forever seems pretty extreme to go through all that when they already have there tested true methods.

Cackle is reliable. It may be expensive to breed, but now they don't have to pay vent sexers.
Many breeds already have both genes. How they were introduced I don't know. This isn't reliable for all breeds, like the Buckeye. They don't have a fast feathering counterpart.
https://blog.cacklehatchery.com/what-is-feather-sexing-separating-fact-from-myth/

 

[Grampascarlett]

Thanks everyone I have a guy wanting to buy a cockeral day old chick and I said I'd check if this worked