How do TSC and other chicken stores sex their chicks?

[Chickensarecool123]

Hello im wondering how does TSC and other chicken stores sex their day or two old chicks? Also what are your guy’s experiences with cream leg bars, Americana’s, and Easter eggers? Since I’ve been hoping to get a blue egg layer i wanted to learn more about them

 

[GodLovesU]

I love my Easter Eggers, they’ve been so sweet. As for Americanas, if it’s spelled like that, is a way that Easter Eggers are sold as Ameraucanas.

 

[Ecarroll]

TSC and other feed stores get there chicks from a hatchery, and they are sexed at the hatchery by vent sexing.
I have some sweet cream legbars currently, pretty young birds, good with people, like flying.

 

[townchicks]

As has been mentioned, it's the hatcheries that do the sexing, by checking newly hatched chicks vents, before they are sent to the stores. Be aware, vent sexing is kind of an art, and even the best vent sexers have an 80 to 90 % accuracy, so even buying "sexed pullets" can result in an accidental male. Be aware, also, that TSC is notorious for mixing up their bins of chicks, and based on many posts I've read on here, sometimes those mix ups happen at the hatcheries too. So if you can't have a rooster, be prepared with a plan for any cockerels that may pop up. I'll be blunt here, most often they end up in freezer camp, think about if that is an option for you, you will get attached. Finding pet homes for the boys is very, very hard, because the "market" gets flooded rapidly, and again to be blunt, Easter Eggers, as a mutt, are not in high demand as breeding roos. If you need to be sure that you don't get a boy, consider started pullets, or forget the colored eggs, and get sex links, or look for a rescue to get hens from.
To answer your second question, I've have several EEs, and generally, they are nice hens. Mine have laid light blue or green eggs, pretty but not intense color. Personalities vary, as with any breed. I do not have personal experience with cream leg bars.

 

[nuthatched]

They don't.
They come from the hatcheries, and sexed there.
Contrary to popular belief, feed stores don't breed, hatch, sex or own the birds, they're just distribution centers.
They have to use the labels they came with. Hoovers sucks at labels.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

As has been mentioned, it's the hatcheries that do the sexing, by checking newly hatched chicks vents, before they are sent to the stores. Be aware, vent sexing is kind of an art, and even the best vent sexers have an 80 to 90 % accuracy, so even buying "sexed pullets" can result in an accidental male. Be aware, also, that TSC is notorious for mixing up their bins of chicks, and based on many posts I've read on here, sometimes those mix ups happen at the hatcheries too. So if you can't have a rooster, be prepared with a plan for any cockerels that may pop up. I'll be blunt here, most often they end up in freezer camp, think about if that is an option for you, you will get attached. Finding pet homes for the boys is very, very hard, because the "market" gets flooded rapidly, and again to be blunt, Easter Eggers, as a mutt, are not in high demand as breeding roos. If you need to be sure that you don't get a boy, consider started pullets, or forget the colored eggs, and get sex links, or look for a rescue to get hens from.
To answer your second question, I've have several EEs, and generally, they are nice hens. Mine have laid light blue or green eggs, pretty but not intense color. Personalities vary, as with any breed. I do not have personal experience with cream leg bars.

This is a very good warning about people getting into pet & small time backyard chickens who will inevitably fall in love with their spunky baby cockerel... it breaks my heart seeing so many "can someone take my sweet boy as a pet?" there is only so much room for nice pet roosters and then there's the other 9,000 boys...

 

[Chickensarecool123]

This is a very good warning about people getting into pet & small time backyard chickens who will inevitably fall in love with their spunky baby cockerel... it breaks my heart seeing so many "can someone take my sweet boy as a pet?" there is only so much room for nice pet roosters and then there's the other 9,000 boys...

Yeah for our cockerel we had to search for a while before finding a home for him, or the only place that would not eat him immediately a chick store where they’d would sell him, and fate decides what will happen to him.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If you need to be sure that you don't get a boy, forget the colored eggs, and get sex links,

Legbars are auto sexing so they can get blue eggs and do just as well at not getting a male as they would buying sex links.

 

[Chickensarecool123]

Legbars are auto sexing so they can get blue eggs and do just as well at not getting a male as they would buying sex links.

Oh that sounds like a great breed thanks~

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Hello im wondering how does TSC and other chicken stores sex their day or two old chicks? Also what are your guy’s experiences with cream leg bars, Americana’s, and Easter eggers? Since I’ve been hoping to get a blue egg layer i wanted to learn more about them

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