Black Sexlink, Australorp or Barred Rock?

Black sex-link pullets don't have the head dot, it's how they are 100% sexed at hatch.

There is a "Plymouth Rock thread" (<search that phrase) or "Aulstralorp Thread" here with pleathera of barred rock/aussie chick pics. Or upload some pics of yours in What Breed is This? catagory; you'll have them identified within hours there.
 
You might want to take a look at the "commercial black pullet" thread. Apparently, there is an Australorp cross being sold this year through TSC and if your store bought chicks from the same hatchery, then you might have the same thing. Yes, yours is very dark for an Australorp but a cross makes more sense than a whole bin of mis-sexed sexlinks! They do cross to create "breeds" that can be feather-sexed so that less training is required to sex the day-old chicks.
 

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