Tractor Supply Chicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[topdycke]

Brand new to chicks so really didn't know what to look for at TSC. We wound up with 5 bantams ( don't know what kind - 3 are blackish and 2 are yellow). We also bought 5 red production and 3 light brahma. Have a few with pasty butt but other than that all are doing well.

When TS had bantams last year they were labeled as Assorted Straight Run - I think if you know what hatchery they are coming from you can see what they had available that week and make a guess from those breeds.

 

[rosinsk1772]

You cannot go by the spot though especially with hatchery chicks because the quality is not the best or the same as a breeders,there are other features to look at like the leg wash color,you should see a lighter yellowish color on males and a darker charcoal wash on females but even that's not 100% accurate.

This makes more sense then. I have two barred rocks straight run. One has darker feet all around while the other has lighter feet with a dusting of charcoal, and the white spot isn't defined at all. The odds are that's a roo right?

Also I have what appears two silver laced polish bantams. Exact same birds but one has a darker beak than the other could that be a definer of the sex as well

 

[wantedman66]

Don't know anything about polish laced bantams jjust large fowl
And can lonely tell you what I've seen sometime it works and sometimes it doesn't good luck.




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[wantedman66]

If it turns out you have a bartered roo will gladly take if off your hands if u want ,just let me know mike.

 

[wantedman66]

Sorry meant barred rock roo dummy I am !! !!

 

[rosinsk1772]

Will do. Out if my 12 chicks you'd think the odds are that I have at least one roo. My little girl asked me if we can hatch eggs. This all started from them asking to raise eggs now it's going to a new level

 

[wantedman66]

Oh ya I know how that works your in trouble now, no turning back now thats how it starts haha.

 

[Farmall45]

One little, two little, three little chickens, four little, five little, six little chickens...... Ha Ha
Yup, that's how it starts

 

[wantedman66]

Hey the way I look at it,like I tell my wife when she gives me a hard time about too many chickens I just remind her im home every night and not a drug addict or alcoholic,my addiction is chickens it's harmless "right" haha.

 

[Jdragr]

So true. I was going to start with 6. No have 13 chicks.