Tractor supply ASIAN chicks

BSL cockerel look like barred rocks. BSL pullets will have a bit of red thru neck or chest. I would post a pic of mine for comparison but they have taken the ability to post pic from my app for some reason. The last pic look BSL to me due to red in neck
 
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This is the Asian Black at 5 weeks. It is pretty big. And the 3 I bought all have red tipped feathers. They are growing very fast. Tractor supply Wabash Indiana
 
While my computer takes its time downloading the other pullets' pics, here are the cockerels--a real bunch of characters! They were in the Asian bin but they look like BSLs. This is Ash. The 1st pic totally shows his personality!

 




This is Cole. Where Ash and San-san are goofballs, always inventing new games and antics, Cole is gentle and docile. He's also taking the longer to develop, feather in and his comb is still light (Ash and San-san's combs are both quite pinkish red).
*The pic of his face full on didn't load to mt computer. I'll edit it in when I get it. (I just can't help showing his darling little face).
I hope the pic shows this detail. His chest "stripes" or bars are light tan and black. Even compared to the other areas on his body with the same barring--which are all white and black--this is the only place where instead of white, there's tan.
 
BSL cockerel look like barred rocks. BSL pullets will have a bit of red thru neck or chest. I would post a pic of mine for comparison but they have taken the ability to post pic from my app for some reason. The last pic look BSL to me due to red in neck
I think my 2 breeds got mixed. I bought 5 supposed pre sexed pullets from the BSL bin and 5 from the Asian bin. 2 from the Asian look like pullets. The other 3 look like BSL cockerels.
 
Still having trouble between my phone and laptop so I'll go back to the girls.
This is a chick named Raven--the others have names also but I'm still having trouble not mixing them up.
Raven has the most orange-red on her, from the face thru most of the feathers. I think she's gorgeous!

 
Those have more red than most BSL chicks so I'd say they are the Asian. Only thing that is puzzling is they can tell BSL pullets from cockerel with 100% accuracy at hatch. The male's have white spot on head females do not. As for barred rocks they both have white spot at hatch. So if they sold you BSL as pullets that had a white spot on head they were definitely not pullets. That was a false sign on bin
 
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Those have more red than most BSL chicks so I'd say they are the Asian. Only thing that is puzzling is they can tell BSL pullets from cockerel with 100% accuracy at hatch. The male's have white spot on head females do not. As for barred rocks they both have white spot at hatch. So if they sold you BSL as pullets that had a white spot on head they were definitely not pullets. That was a false

I'm sorry if my description was unclear.
The bin for BSL Pullets (pullets only it said) was right next to the bin for Asian (st run only).
The 3 males (2 of whose pics I posted) came out of the Asian bin. They have all the qualities one would expect of a BSL: yellow feet, barring on most feathers (although the barring is not the same as a BR would be). The bars on these males are wider apart; one has a white chest with black tiny stripes or flecks (his pic isn't posted yet). The other 2 have what @junebuggena called atypical markings.
The girls: all but one have black feet. One has yellow feet. Their coloring ranges from almost all black to Lots of orangey-red (the most of that color is on Raven whose pics I posted last).
That's why I said I think the chicks were mixed from the 2 bins.
The 3 (from the Asian bin) with white on their heads are most likely BSLs. The 5 pullets I bought from the BSL-pullet only may be a mix of BSL and Asian. The 2 suspected pullets I bought from the Asian bin look just like the other pullets from the BSL bin.
The ONLY differences between all the pullets is: 1) the amount of orange-red tones and 2) that one of them has yellow legs and feet.
With this info, what are your thoughts plz?
BTW instead of further hijacking the thread by posting even More pics, I'll assume that everyone gets the point I'm trying to make with the pics. Of course a mama always thinks her baby pics are the cutest, but...enough! LOL.
 
Those have more red than most BSL chicks so I'd say they are the Asian. Only thing that is puzzling is they can tell BSL pullets from cockerel with 100% accuracy at hatch. The male's have white spot on head females do not. As for barred rocks they both have white spot at hatch. So if they sold you BSL as pullets that had a white spot on head they were definitely not pullets. That was a false sign on bin


I need to ask, what is a BSL?
 

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