Help ID some TSC chicks for me please

[aart]

does this help

Yes...definitely CX meat birds.

 

[Amoore117]

Ruh-Roh! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your little black chicks aren't bantams, then you may have an issue with your big, white ones. It looks like TSC sold you Cornish Cross chicks aka known as "meaties." They're bred to develop VERY quickly into large-breasted, big-thighed dinner birds. They're usually "harvested" at about 8 weeks old, right before they get too big to walk.

No I do not believe they are bantams.
Damnit

 

[Amoore117]

Yes...definitely CX meat birds.

the joys of inexperience

 

[MROO]

I know it's hard to do once you've grown attached to them, but the kindest thing you can do may well be to let them serve the purpose for which they were bred. Letting them keep growing - and they WILL keep growing, because we've also bred them to have insatiable appetites, for just that purpose - borders on cruel. In order to slow their growth, you have to starve them - in their terms, not literally, because they are programmed to eat. If allowed to grow as they are "supposed to," they have skeletal and organ issues that will eventually kill them.
And Tractor supply owes you some chicks!

 

[BabasCoop]

Couldn’t they be white leghorns? We were at our TSC the other day and all the had we’re white leghorns and ducks.
Looked just like those little chicks.

I don’t think they are Cornish x.

 

[Franklinridgefarms]

the joys of inexperience

Sorry that happened to you. That’s what really frustrates me about places like Tractor Supply. They don’t hire employees for the long term and thus most are young and not very knowledgeable about the products they carry. It’s ok if you know what you exactly what you are looking for and can find it yourself. The chickens are a bit different with so many new varieties and add in the corona precautions and it’s very difficult to see and understand what you are getting. I prefer ordering them from a hatchery but our post office doesn’t make that very easy to pick them up, so it’s more pleasant to take a chance on getting them from a Tractor Supply or Rural King. We had a local feed store that used to get chicks in during the spring but they stopped because they couldn’t compete with the bigger stores.

 

[Amoore117]

I know it's hard to do once you've grown attached to them, but the kindest thing you can do may well be to let them serve the purpose for which they were bred. Letting them keep growing - and they WILL keep growing, because we've also bred them to have insatiable appetites, for just that purpose - borders on cruel. In order to slow their growth, you have to starve them - in their terms, not literally, because they are programmed to eat. If allowed to grow as they are "supposed to," they have skeletal and organ issues that will eventually kill them.
And Tractor supply owes you some chicks!

i am not one who grows attached to where they cannot become dinner BUT my wife and kids are going to be a tough sell in this area lol. They know if we have a flock of ROOS that the extra ROOS will be either rehomed Or become food. But these little (yeah right) they have attached to. I have been just making sure feeders are always full. They have not been overly aggressive to the smaller chicks either. With them being about 4 weeks old, if they are definitely meat birds it sounds like they have 4-6 weeks till they need to be handled properly? Guess I’m going to get some new chicks . Maybe I’ll wait till I get these all out to the chicken house but I just can’t help myself

 

[Franklinridgefarms]

Couldn’t they be white leghorns? We were at our TSC the other day and all the had we’re white leghorns and ducks.
Looked just like those little chicks.

I don’t think they are Cornish x.

unfortunately those don’t look like any leghorns I have ever seen

 

[Amoore117]

Sorry that happened to you. That’s what really frustrates me about places like Tractor Supply. They don’t hire employees for the long term and thus most are young and not very knowledgeable about the products they carry. It’s ok if you know what you exactly what you are looking for and can find it yourself. The chickens are a bit different with so many new varieties and add in the corona precautions and it’s very difficult to see and understand what you are getting. I prefer ordering them from a hatchery but our post office doesn’t make that very easy to pick them up, so it’s more pleasant to take a chance on getting them from a Tractor Supply or Rural King. We had a local feed store that used to get chicks in during the spring but they stopped because they couldn’t compete with the bigger stores.

Yeahhhhhhh. It’s part of what I was “afraid” of but such is life