This is a situation where your best defense is yourself......familiarizing yourself with basic breed characteristics (comb type, leg color, toe count, down/plumage pattern and expected leg, facial or head feathering, etc) means regardless of what a store associate or sign says, you will know what to look for. In the day and age of smart phones it can be a matter of pulling out your phone while standing at the chick bins.I feel this is what happened to us, but at Murdoch’s, in Missoula, MT. Last year we thought we were getting a Welsummer and she turned out to be a he and a Road
island red. This year, a jersey giants/austrolop (we shall see...) instead of a barred rock. Annoying.