13 Week old White Rocks- not so white!

[Mimo]

I bought these girls the first of April from TSC. They told me they were white rocks, but only two of them are pure white today. Will the others outgrow this coloring? Or do I not really have white rocks?

 

[Chick Charm]

Not the best lookin rocks. They look like poor hatchery rocks.

 

[donrae]

I think the dominant white in white rocks should cancel everything else out. I'd think they're one of the hybrid layers tsc gets, like an amberlink or tetra tint, something like that. There's so many I haven't kept up on what each one looks like, maybe someone else can get more specific.

 

[Fred's Hens]

I think the dominant white in white rocks should cancel everything else out. I'd think they're one of the hybrid layers tsc gets, like an amberlink or tetra tint, something like that. There's so many I haven't kept up on what each one looks like, maybe someone else can get more specific.

X2 Simply put, they aren't White Rock. They are much more likely Amberlinks or whatever else the hatcheries are calling these various, mostly white mixes. They are mixes/hybrids. Will they be great chickens that lay lots of eggs? Quite likely.

 

[SunnySkyFarm]

They look like my neighbor's Amber Links

 

[Mimo]

Thanks everyone! That's exactly what they look like... Amber links. I really like them, they are curious and friendly and fairly easy to catch. I hope they are as good at laying as people have written. I just wanted to make sure I was telling people what they really were, and only two look like white rocks.