Tractor supply ASIAN chicks

[yeye5]

I need to ask, what is a BSL?

Black Sex Link.
I am also still getting aquainted with the abbreviations. There are so many! The only reason I knew this one is bcs I bought some recently, lol.
From my understanding--and I hope someone will jump in to correct me if I've got it wrong--you cross a female barred rock (BR) with a non-white male. The resulting chicks have the self-sexing quality in which the BR gene is passed to Only the male chicks. That results in a white spot on the head of all males. The female chicks have No white on their heads.
I know someone else can explain it better, but I thought I could try to give it a shot. I hope this helped a bit...

 

[Tlmcq]

Depends on hatchery producing them, but most of the time it's Non barred hen or rooster, like a Rhode island red to a barred type like the barred rock. Most of the ones with alot of red use RIR hen to barred rock rooster, but some hatcheries do it other way around. They use birds that are good production birds to get the desired outcome of lots of eggs that are easily sexed at hatch. Doing that makes all chicks sexable at hatch due to the difference in the spot on head. Females no spot male's have spot. Asians are a new breed so may be next to impossible to know for sure without specific guidelines that would rule in or out certain features for each of your chickens. As far as the sex links, depending on hatchery you will get varying amounts of red in pullet offspring. Some are almost all black with only red stealing their head and neck and some have red breasts and thru the body. Unless someone on here has ordered some Asians specifically from same hatchery as yours you may not be able to tell difference. Unless Asian Roosters look a lot different from sex link roos, which look a lot like barred rocks but somewhat washed out define bars or less definitive barring. I'm am not sure what the Asian roos look like as I've never seen one in person. But all the pics of them I've seen look nothing like barred rocks. Leading me to think they may have been trying to sell BSL male's as Asians to rid themself of the BSL roos

 

[yeye5]

Depends on hatchery producing them, but most of the time it's Non barred hen or rooster, like a Rhode island red to a barred type like the barred rock. Most of the ones with alot of red use RIR hen to barred rock rooster, but some hatcheries do it other way around. They use birds that are good production birds to get the desired outcome of lots of eggs that are easily sexed at hatch. Doing that makes all chicks sexable at hatch due to the difference in the spot on head. Females no spot male's have spot. Asians are a new breed so may be next to impossible to know for sure without specific guidelines that would rule in or out certain features for each of your chickens. As far as the sex links, depending on hatchery you will get varying amounts of red in pullet offspring. Some are almost all black with only red stealing their head and neck and some have red breasts and thru the body. Unless someone on here has ordered some Asians specifically from same hatchery as yours you may not be able to tell difference. Unless Asian Roosters look a lot different from sex link roos, which look a lot like barred rocks but somewhat washed out define bars or less definitive barring. I'm am not sure what the Asian roos look like as I've never seen one in person. But all the pics of them I've seen look nothing like barred rocks. Leading me to think they may have been trying to sell BSL male's as Asians to rid themself of the BSL roos

Thanks for the correction. I had thought it was only with a barred female bcs she would pass the white on head to only her male offspring.
It makes sense what you're describing with the red and being crossed to RIR or production red.
I believe the came from Pure poultry (whose supplier is Hoovers) or direct from Hoovers. Not sure but I think so.

 

[yeye5]

Depends on hatchery producing them, but most of the time it's Non barred hen or rooster, like a Rhode island red to a barred type like the barred rock. Most of the ones with alot of red use RIR hen to barred rock rooster, but some hatcheries do it other way around. They use birds that are good production birds to get the desired outcome of lots of eggs that are easily sexed at hatch. Doing that makes all chicks sexable at hatch due to the difference in the spot on head. Females no spot male's have spot. Asians are a new breed so may be next to impossible to know for sure without specific guidelines that would rule in or out certain features for each of your chickens. As far as the sex links, depending on hatchery you will get varying amounts of red in pullet offspring. Some ar the pe almost all black with only red stealing their head and neck and some have red breasts and thru the body. Unless someone on here has ordered some Asians specifically from same hatchery as yours you may not be able to tell difference. Unless Asian Roosters look a lot different from sex link roos, which look a lot like barred rocks but somewhat washed out define bars or less definitive barring. I'm am not sure what the Asian roos look like as I've never seen one in person. But all the pics of them I've seen look nothing like barred rocks. Leading me to think they may have been trying to sell BSL male's as Asians to rid themself of the BSL roos

I wonder if you saw the pics of 2 out of 3 males I posted--or the ones I am assuming are males--would you say the look like BSLs?

 

[Tlmcq]

The white spot on head comes from barred rock lineage as all those male & female have white spot

 

[Tlmcq]

I did see a male pic in the bunch. Looked like sex link. The pics I've seen of Asians aren't barred. But as I said before, they've only been a few pics from hatchery sites. I don't know anyone who has some for comparison. Hopefully, someone on here may and we can get a better idea of possible variety on males. New breeds are always interesting just not as much info on em til people start getting different full grown stock to compare.

 

[luckied]

Wanted to subscribe to this thread as I'm picking up/adopting the remaining birds at my local TSC and all that's left is 20 SR assorted asians. I will post pics when I can and I look forward to seeing them grow along with the rest of you.

 

[Angels Eggs]

Wanted to subscribe to this thread as I'm picking up/adopting the remaining birds at my local TSC and all that's left is 20 SR assorted asians. I will post pics when I can and I look forward to seeing them grow along with the rest of you.

Welcome, I am going to put more pictures on here next week. They will be 8 wks then. They are growing so fast.

 

[Bluegrassmama]

I purchased 3 Asian chicks from TSC and I think they are beautiful babies. They have a good temperament so far also. Mine are about 5 weeks old and I am going to try and get some pictures of them later today when it's not raining.

 

[luckied]

@ Angela eggs, thanks for the welcome.
I picked up my Asians today already think there are 2 cockerels in the bunch, but you never know.
I did find other threads on here from those who bought Asians from TSC last year and I must say some of these birds have the most amazing coloring I've ever seen. I noticed comments from others about whether they bought blue or black, but at my local store they were listed as assorted, pic included.

I excited to see the colors that come out in mine!!
Here is a pic of some Asians and some of my GSL all about 4 weeks old.

The GSL do appear a bit larger for now. I think it's funny, they all get along, but seem to separate into 2 color groups whenever I come around....LOL.