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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: taz08 on May 02, 2013, 02:24:07 pm

Title: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: taz08 on May 02, 2013, 02:24:07 pm

unsexed pure breed chicks , how much at most should they be

Title: Re: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: Bodger on May 02, 2013, 02:53:12 pm

Taz mate, I wouldn't buy em at all. Pure bred cocks aren't worth that much and anyway, they're going to be full brothers to their sisters, so they're going to be almost worthless to you in any future breeding pen.

Title: Re: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: taz08 on May 02, 2013, 05:49:20 pm

ya got apoint there

Title: Re: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: chrismahon on May 02, 2013, 06:49:55 pm

£30 sexed, £10 not. Guess the disparity is due to the stress of having to dispose of the cocks. It depends on the age so chicks may be £3. Some breeds will be 20 weeks to sex.

Title: Re: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: Bodger on May 02, 2013, 07:06:17 pm

Thirty quid for a sexed pure bred chick Chris? :o Where are you shopping? Harrods? :innocent:

Title: Re: unsexed pure breed chick
Post by: HesterF on May 02, 2013, 10:11:51 pm

£30 for a POL rather than a chick, I think? But should be sexed by then (even if one of my 'POL pullets' is now a proud strutting cockerel).

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