Is there something wrong with my young BSL hens tail?

[CombNWattles]

It looks normal to me; sometimes they look funny growing in.
Here’s my nappy with her funny tail:

 

[Tomwaits1863]

I agree with what @Not-so Slick Chicken said. Its normal for them to attack eachother while they are getting use to eachother. Did the bin you got them from specificly say that they were hens?

They were just labeled as black sex links with a picture of a male and female so maybe both?

 

[Tomwaits1863]

It looks normal to me; sometimes they look funny growing in.
Here’s my nappy with her funny tail:
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Thats a really nice bird, I was hoping for mostly black birds like her lol. Hopefully she's just an oddball then, too.

 

[Tomwaits1863]

Black Sex Links are a barred mother, with a non-barred father. The hen only passes barring onto sons, so you can tell the chicks apart because the black chicks with a white/yellow dot on the head have the barring gene and are thus cockerels, and the ones without the spot are pullets.

Usually, hatcheries use a Barred Plymouth Rock hen, and often a red rooster like a Rhode Island Red. The offspring inherit some red or gold leakage.

That being said, you could technically use almost any non-barred rooster with any barred hen, so long as nothing is going to hide the spot on the head.

I don't know if these are BSL or not, but it's not impossible that a hatchery used different birds which resulted in silver leakage instead of red or gold. But, somebody will probably tell me if a silver bsl would be impossible.


Funny enough, I've actually recently talked with someone on here with a BSL with an odd tail.
I take care of a neighbor's BSL hens sometimes (they're 1-2 years old, all laying) and at least one has a funky tail feather like it grew too long. So, it's not impossible for a hen to have a tail like that. I couldn't tell you if yours are indeed BSL, but I think they could be and it just might be a glitch in the hybrid. I feel like the pattern appears to be female-specific?

Thanks for the information, and yeah thats why I didn't consider her being a male because I don't see very much barring like I've read all males have, I do see a little bit of barring peaking through at the back of her neck but surely it'd be more by now.

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Thanks for the information, and yeah thats why I didn't consider her being a male because I don't see very much barring like I've read all males have, I do see a little bit of barring peaking through at the back of her neck but surely it'd be more by now.

I don't see any barring on the birds you have pictured.

I have attached a picture of my Barred Plymouth Rock pullet. (The 1-bird picture)
Now, she's not a cockerel, and not a bsl, but the pattern is what I would expect to see on a bsl cockerel.

The pattern starts to become noticeable when they're a few weeks old.

Group picture is from when they were about 6-7 weeks. Barred Rock pullet on right, Golden Cuckoo Marans on left.

2-bird picture is golden cuckoo marans on right. The cuckoo pattern doesn't have distinct barring. But cuckoo is still the barred gene.

 

[Iluveggers]

McMurray carries a Black Star Sex Link that can be black w red or black w white. It looks like this:

 

[Tomwaits1863]

McMurray carries a Black Star Sex Link that can be black w red or black w white. It looks like this: View attachment 4143763

Maybe that's what I have! Thank you! Time to go down a rabbithole on this breed lol