If you buy straight run chicks you'll get approximately 50% male 50% female. You can buy sexed birds but it isn't foolproof and costs more.

If you plan on meat bird straight run works well. Cull the cockerels (roosters that haven't reached sexual maturity) before they discover girls.

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