I feel ignorant!

[Caliphe]

To me they look like my Amber whites which are a Rhode Island Red hybrids. I'm almost positive that's what you have. Someone previously mentioned they also look like her Amberlinks, which I assume are the same thing.


Edit: I should mention, my Ambers are pretty husky, like yours, and had yellow/orange down like yours and feathered in white, like yours.

 

[TheSheriffswife]

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Hi there..Maybe I can help..I picked up my girls at Tractor Supply about 6 weeks ago and they had "Amberlinks" I got three of those and three either RI / NH Reds so they say..

they don't quite know..But the Amberlinks are accurate.. Here is a pic of mine as little ones..Maybe these look like yours?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76733_img_3223.jpg

I know this breed is sold at and for tractor supply stores...

Here is a link to some info..

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/...egg-layer-proving-popular-with-free-range.htm

And here is one of my girls going on 7 weeks old..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76733_img_3399.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76733_img_3398.jpg

If this is what you have tho, and I think you may, you will LOVE them..while nothing fancy to look at ( I am liking a white chicken tho now) they are sooo sweet and quiet, non-pushy. They always wait patiently for their turn for treats..They are a joy!
I love em!
And apparently they are great layers!
Good Luck!

Deb

Is that wood pellets that you have in the bottom of the brooder? Like the ones for pellet stoves?

They are Pine Pellets Like for the horse stalls.. they are great for absorbancy and odor and I have had no problem with the chicks and now the chickens eating them..I barely had to clean that brooder..

 

[MeowCluckBark]

i use horse bedding pellets too! great odor control

 

[WalkerH]

Could very well be Cornish Rock X, I know I got some from TSC for eating.

 

[kingsfarm]

Hi, I was at our feed store today and they had some that looked like these, I thought they were Buff Orps and would have bought a few, they turned out to be white leghorns.....hope this helps.......G

 

[Anianna]

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I do believe you are probably right. I went to Tractor Supply today for my RIRs and they were really pushing these Tetra Tints, which is a Longhorn/RI cross that lay a cream-colored egg. The staff at the local store here seemed to know a lot about them and said the gender was mixed, so I don't think they are sex links (or perhaps they didn't know they are sex links). They did have some sex link red pullets there, though. They claim the Tetra Tints are better layers than the RI's. They are certainly the spitting image of the chicks pictured by the OP.