That does make sense.. gosh I hope I come across more like these, I love them to pieces. They seem pretty cold hardy, I had bad frostbite this year and neither hen got any! Tomorrow I will try to get pics of the other hen, she has a light brown tint on her throat. Which would lead me to agree...
Thanks! I love these two so much, I wanted more but TSC doesn't sell them this year and I can't find a hatchery that does either. I incubated one of her eggs, but I don't have a matching rooster so the baby turned out solid black LOL
Last March, TSC got a bunch of new chicks. In one bin they had Black Stars and Isa Browns. I got both of those kinds, but then they had tons of white chicks with purple skin and black spots. I asked their breed and TSC was clueless, they didn't even know what Black Stars were. They called them...