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The same thing happened to me. I was shopping at TSC. ( Tractor Supply Company ) I came in and told the lady working with the baby chickens that I wanted an order of white leghorns 3 of them. I said I also would like an order of Wellsummers 3 of them to. I asked the lady are there any roosters? She said no these will grow up to be hens. No Roosters. I brought my 6 chicks home. As they grew, my leghorns were getting more golden colored instead of white. I was confused. I am supposed to be getting white leghorns, not gold leghorns. One of my Wellsummers was getting bigger and bigger than my other Wellsummers. When I moved them outside to their new backyard coop, It was only a few days later when Cinnamon ( the bigger Welsummer ) Started to crow. Soon later I saw that my leghorns were Buff Orpingtons. Well, 2 of them anyway 1 remained white and became a Chicken I could not identify. Not a leghorn. Cinnamon became a rooster.( I named him that because he was cinnamon colored as a chick!) And my Wellsummers became Easter Eggers. The odd white chicken also became a rooster. One of the Buff Orps died I gave All the Easter Eggers And roosters to a friend. I was left with one super sweet Buff Orpington named Daisy Buffy Orpy. That I still have today. I came to TSC again to get 6 Rhode Island Reds. But they became ISA browns! Chick business with TSC was over for me. I got myself 6 Rhode Island Chicks from a feed store in Greene county. One died but the rest of them finally grew to be real Rhode Island reds! Now I am left with 5 Rhode Island red hens, and 1 sweet fluffy Golden Buff Orpington named Daisy. Like I say, Life is a box of TSC chicks, You never know what you will get. Here is one of my Rhode Island Reds. The real ones. Her name is Auttumm.
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