Terms &Tips To Help When Buying Female Layer Chicks This Year - $100,000,000 (Hickory NC)

*Pullets mean FEMALE chickens under 1yr old.
Beware of folks selling chicks they hatched there selves as pullets.
It is very hard to sex chicks.
Hatchery Professionals only claim 85% to 90% accuracy and fact is most common people raising chickens just cant do it.
I had people sale me young chicken they advertised as pullets, so i thought i was buying females when in fact as they got older i could tell they were straight run (mostly Roosters) when i ask them about this they said they thought pullets meant young chicken.
No, it means young FEMALE chicken.
*Straight Run means a mix of Rooster and Pullet chicks as hatched.
Most claim 50/50 but reality is usually 70% roos 30% pullets.
Also some folks learn how to sex chicks.
Then Keep the females and resale all the roosters as strait run.
*If you want to be sure you get Female chick its best to buy from someone who will Guarantee them to be Females # chickens poultry fowl hen hens