If you buy sexed chicks directly from a hatchery, your chances of receiving a pullet or pullets are about 90-95%. There is always a small chance that a chick may have been sexed wrong, and you may ...

But you can order baby chickens to be shipped from a poultry hatchery through the mail, too. This is a great way to find some unusual breeds or varieties.

Baby chicks including Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons huddle next to each other for warmth in their brooding pen. Kelly Rausch File photo With the rise in the price of ...

They keep the females. But the males — brace yourself — get killed instantly in a machine that grinds them up. In the U.S., about 300 million male chicks from egg-laying breeds are killed each ...