TSC straight run results

[LucindaD]

I bought 9 chicks from TSC and being new to this I didn’t know how to sex them. The salesperson sexed them for me and didn’t think I had any males... Here they are a few months later. Can you please tell me what kind of breed my roosters are?

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

You have a buff cochin bantam and a black tailed white Japanese bantam. Not sure about the others.

 

[black_cat]

I bought 9 chicks from TSC and being new to this I didn’t know how to sex them. The salesperson sexed them for me and didn’t think I had any males... Here they are a few months later. Can you please tell me what kind of breed my roosters are?

I'm not sure about breed, but at least you don't have to get rid of any as they are all guys! Are you planning to keep them all as an all male flock?

 

[LucindaD]

I'm not sure about breed, but at least you don't have to get rid of any as they are all guys! Are you planning to keep them all as an all male flock?

I was hoping to, they are fighting a bit - nothing bloody though - and I have one hen in there that I can't separate from the others and I'm afraid she'll become their sex-slave.hehehe. I have a flock of female cochins that I was hoping to put her with but she cries after her boys when I move her.

 

[FeatherstoneFrm]

She can't stay with the boys after they mature. They will fight over her and she will end up getting the worst of it. I had 2 roosters fight over 1 hen and she ended up bald and bloody on her head, neck, and back from too much mating. Plus the boys would try to push each other off of her and pull feathers out trying to stay on. Once I got rid of 1 rooster, the other was much nicer to her.

 

[black_cat]

I was hoping to, they are fighting a bit - nothing bloody though - and I have one hen in there that I can't separate from the others and I'm afraid she'll become their sex-slave.hehehe. I have a flock of female cochins that I was hoping to put her with but she cries after her boys when I move her.

How many cochins? If you pick the best rooster to go with them, maybe you could add a rooster there? Then have the rest as a rooster flock?

 

[RebekahTN]

Is anyone crowing yet?
I bought 9 bantam unsexed chicks from TSC on April 3rd, making them 11 weeks old today. Our little sebright has been crowing for 2 weeks now, or at least trying to. He has the cutest little crow, he is trying so hard. He is the only one saying much of anything at this point.

 

[NatJ]

You have a buff cochin bantam and a black tailed white Japanese bantam.

I'm think so too, and I think the others are probably Old English Game bantams. They are fairly common, and come in many colors. I think I see black, blue, splash, and lavender--not positive about whether the light ones are lavender (should be one solid shade) or splash (has darker bits in the light shade), but I think I see at least one of each.

The salesperson sexed them for me and didn’t think I had any males...

You will know not to trust such statements in future

Unless the chicks are several weeks old, there is NO accurate way for you or any TSC employee to sex them. (Several weeks old: combs/wattles, sometimes gender-specific color differences.)

Even the chicks that should be sexable by color cannot be entirely trusted, because chicks might be mislabeled. (Red Sexlink pullet, or Rhode Island Red that might be a male? Barred Rock pullet or Black Sexlink cockerel? Etc.)

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

TSC is always a toss up. When you go there you are buying chicks. No gender or breed guarantees.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

You could probably combine the two flocks and make one ultimate flock.