Do pullets crow?

[keesmom]

X2
Likely one of the Asian blacks, etc....

X2. There have been several posts here in the past week from people who supposedly bought black sex link pullets from TSC only to have them sprout huge combs at an early age and crow. They all look like your cockerels, and like "Asian blacks".

 

[Angeltears247]

Thanks everyone for your help, man this is such a disappointment! My heart sank when I heard the "crow"...I guess now have to line up new homes.. sadly too...because I'm pretty attached to them but don't want them to fight! How many roosters are ok to keep together?

 

[bruceha2000]

...could this just be a breed mix up?

Wow, sure looks like it. Those chicks aren't all black, not even close to it. Sorry. I would find out from your TSC store if they had other breeds that might have looked like those chicks. I checked their website and they do list Asian black but a picture of those chicks on "Purely Poultry" says they are meat chickens and the chicks are black on top with white underbodies. Yours don't look like that either.

I just looked at all the breeds TSC claims to carry (at least on their website) and none of the chicks would look like what you have with the resulting bird at 8 weeks. The closest I can come is a Barnevelder and a male at that age (I ended up with 1 boy and 1 girl last April) would have a lot of brown on its wings at 8 weeks. Here was mine at 8 weeks


TSC must get their birds from multiple hatcheries since the website lists "Americana" and Easter Eggers as different "breeds".

 

[Chickygirl63]

I have two roosters that fought at first but now they get along very well... The older rooster is a Barr Rock and the other rooster is a sexlink

 

[Trish1974]

Wow, ANOTHER TSC screw up! If I had a nickle for every TSC screw up story I've read...

That chain just needs to stop selling chicks.