Identifying this one

[Twitchy]

We just got our first chicks last week and I'm not sure we necessarily got what we thought we were getting. We ended up getting a few from a small farm and a couple from a larger hatchery.

This girl is supposed to be an australorp, but she looks different to me than pictures I've seen online of them, and very different from an australorp from the large hatchery.

She also seems a bit smaller than the others, but not a lot smaller. I'm wondering if she might be a bantam. Here she is in the brooder, you can see she's a bit on the diminutive side.

So what is she? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[chicken5432]

Barred rock or black sex link

 

[jarcoo0153]

I think Black sex link. But I'm still pretty new to the wild world of chickens!

 

[chicks4kids]

I would say Black Sex link as well...'cuz I was at TSC today, and thought that the chicks that looked like this one were BR's but when I read the tag.....Black Sex Link.

 

[HBuehler]

If it's a sex link it's a baby roo...pullets are not marked like that with the dot and the barring.I wouldn't say bantam.We hatch hundreds and there is always some smaller ones.
Not an Australorp no matter what.Hatchery one's are the lower quality but even then are not marked like this.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yep!
I saw a thread a while back where a guy bought a huge box of them at an auction- only to find out they were all roos

 

[Twitchy]

Wow, thanks for the quick replies guys. I guess the lesson here is not to return to that small farm. They were supposed to be all hens. The guy said he would trade any roosters out for hens if I had some, but it's a pretty good drive, so I don't know that I'll take him up on it. I guess I'll have to grow this guy out and figure out what to do with him. I live in a fairly dense city and my neighbors would not appreciate crowing.

 

[speckledhen]

If that is a black sexlink, it is a rooster. In those, only the males have a head spot. I think you have a Barred Plymouth Rock pullet, if they were supposed to be sexed pullets. The second one may be a cockerel, though, but time will tell. They are lighter, overall, than the females and they have larger, more irregular head spots with lots of "frosting" across the back of the head.