So true referencing the pullet vs. hen.
Commercially, as in grocery store, fast food, restaurant chicken, will normally be any sex. It just doesn't matter because, as you say, they just don't live long enough for it to make any difference. I can imagine that hatcheries that sell 'backyard...
I know this thread is about 10 days old but I felt obligated to chime in. I've been incapacitated. I had a total ankle replacement. So I'm homebound and mostly bedridden.
There is some very good information here. And then some things that stretch best practices. It will all work.
As you've...