☺ "Comm. black pullet"? (Not Sexlinks!) ✔Photo Update!✔

[debid]

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Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but don't you get a black sex link by crossing a barred rock hen with a RIR rooster or new hampshire rooster. If so then that might explain the barred rock pic on the common black pullets sign.

While it's true that they could be showing a representative parent bird, that image is still not representative of what is in the bin since there isn't a snowball's chance the chicks will look like that. I just think it's poor signage. I'm not suggesting it's intentional misrepresentation, only that they should put a picture of the breeds in the bin if they're going to put up a picture at all. It does make me wonder how many people bought little black chicks from the bin expecting to get barred rocks.

 

[SassyKat6181]

I have BSL hens and they were all black as peeps. The BR's had a white spot on their head and bums. The chicks in your pics do not look at all like mine did. Sorry, but maybe you can cross those two off the list.

 

[Sunshyne276]

Actually, Mt. Healthy Hatchery has Dekalb Amberlinks as well, and Tractor Supply often gets their chicks from them. If the "dinosaur look" in the eye is what i'm thinking of (a lot of Easter Eggers have that look?)... I love that! lol

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[Sunshyne276]

NOT sexlinks! I called Tractor Supply, and asked what "Comm. black" meant. She said when they were shipped, they were "common black pullets", not "commercial" sexlinks. So.. What black breeds are most common?

 

[Knittycat]

Don't trust TCS employees. They're notoriously ill informed.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

If she has a white spot on her head, my guess would be a Barred Rock.

 

[Sunshyne276]

I wonder if they would label barred rocks as a black chicken, hmmm, could be! lol Will have to just wait and see, I guess!

 

[Sunshyne276]

And, I have noticed this about TSC employees.. Some of them, anyway. You'd think they'd be trained a bit more on the breeds they carry. Oh well! lol

 

[Gypsy07]

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Wouldn't the commies be the RED sex links?

 

[chickened]

Da, krasnyee
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Wouldn't the commies be the RED sex links?