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

[Emmalion]

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I was just as surprised to find it there. I think thats why I took it home. I will post pics of my other 5 toed baby which I have no clue what it is. LOL

 

[PapaChaz]

ok i got some pics of the ones i picked up at TSC. tell me what you think! some of the black ones have some gold spots coming in, some don't. these are just at 4 weeks old. they didn't pay any attention to some green beans i put in there, but loved the hand full of grass i picked and put in

the center one has some gold spots the other doesn't

one made it up to the big girls roost
she had jumped down one by the time i got the camera on and up, LOL

 

[Emmalion]

Here is my find in the CB Bin

Don't mind the wet butt. We had a nice little bath.

Any Ideas on what she is?

 

[Fred's Hens]

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Those black pullets look like a "standard" Black Sex Link which is a Red x Barred Rock.
You will like them. The "mystery" chicks that some TSC is selling as black commercial pullets have a different look and wing.

 

[newchicks5]

mine look just like yours dekalb amberlinks mine are,have 4 black an white butts,1with brown faces an gray butt. all pullets time will .tell.didnt come from ts.sunnyside hatchery.

 

[chickened]

Not sure on all the types with the extra toe but it may be a Favoralle but?
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[Emmalion]

Yeah everyone seems to think its some kind of mix... Not really sure what she is. But she is beautiful and I can't wait to see what she looks like when she is older.

 

[debid]

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The extra toe is only on one side? Now that is strange. I'm going to guess designer mutt. Their term "commercial" seems to mean "mixed breed".

And, of course, you can't trust the sign on the bin. I went in yesterday just to show the kids the bins of chicks and they had a bin labeled "Feature Breed, Golden Laced Wyandotte". There wasn't a single GLW chick in that bin. It was at least 75% EE (the beards made it pretty obvious), there was one that looked suspiciously like a Columbian Wyandotte (and a mean one -- it had blood all over its beak), and one that looked like the "commercial black" chicks they had when I was in there last time. The other chipmunks without beards were harder to ID but none resembled any picture I've ever seen of GLWs in the slightest. There was a guy oooing and ahhhing over the picture on the bin and I went ahead and pointed out the beards and let him know that the sign was incorrect and that those are Easter Eggers -- very colorful, bearded chickens that might lay very colorful eggs. The employee standing at the counter behind him looked up so I know he heard me but he didn't say anything or come over to see.

 

[chickened]

Look at the bright side without them we could not come on BYC and ask "what is the breed?".

 

[Emmalion]

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The extra toe is only on one side? Now that is strange. I'm going to guess designer mutt. Their term "commercial" seems to mean "mixed breed".

And, of course, you can't trust the sign on the bin. I went in yesterday just to show the kids the bins of chicks and they had a bin labeled "Feature Breed, Golden Laced Wyandotte". There wasn't a single GLW chick in that bin. It was at least 75% EE (the beards made it pretty obvious), there was one that looked suspiciously like a Columbian Wyandotte (and a mean one -- it had blood all over its beak), and one that looked like the "commercial black" chicks they had when I was in there last time. The other chipmunks without beards were harder to ID but none resembled any picture I've ever seen of GLWs in the slightest. There was a guy oooing and ahhhing over the picture on the bin and I went ahead and pointed out the beards and let him know that the sign was incorrect and that those are Easter Eggers -- very colorful, bearded chickens that might lay very colorful eggs. The employee standing at the counter behind him looked up so I know he heard me but he didn't say anything or come over to see.

She has 5 toes on both sides the pic just kinda makes the little toe blend in with the bigger one on the right side. If you look close you can see it. Look for the shadow