Took a road trip to Rural King in Kingsport yesterday.
It's quite the place. A Tractor Supply store on steroids of sort. A BIG store with endless farm and garden supplies, clothing, hunting supplies, house hold items and even grocery type food, and all at fairly reasonable prices.
Although, they had about a dozen tubs set up to house baby chicks, ducks, geese and guineas, there were only a couple tubs that actually had residents, see below -
Just like Tractor Supply, these stores offer up these chicks as "straight run" or "unsexed". Straight run chicks are cheaper to buy from the hatcheries, so I get why stores would chose this option but I don't understand why anyone would want to take a risk on buying straight run birds for their home flocks. I would never, it's just not worth the risk, the time, the money or the effort to learn 3 or 4 or 5 months down the road of effort to find out you have males.
Also, the signs on these tubs listed the chicks as "mixed" breeds! Well, I'm NOT interested in that approach either. I want to know what breed(s) I'm committing to up front.
However, that being said, it was still SO very tempting!
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