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NatJ

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Assuming it is a purebred Barred Rock, I THINK the color of the wing feathers indicates that this chick is female. Males get more white in the feathers than females do, so the males overall look lighter. I would wait for it to grow longer before being sure.

But since your got it from Tractor Supply, and they sometimes have mis-labeled chicks, I would definitely wait longer to be sure of the gender.

A female Barred Rock is darker than a male Barred rock. But a Black Sexlink male looks very much like a female Barred Rock at that age. So if the chick was mis-labeled, it might not actually be a Barred Rock (a person could have put the chick in the wrong bin by mistake, or in some stores the chicks themselves can fly from one bin to another.)
 

NatJ

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I got her from tractor supply so I believe the hatchery tries to keep it as sex-linked as possible.
I think the hatcheries use vent-sexing on most chicks instead, so they do not care about keeping the sex-specific coloring of Barred Rocks, Cream Legbars, or other pure breeds that might otherwise be color-sexed.

The actual sexlinks (hybrids of two breeds that can be sexed by color) probably are color-sexed instead of vent sexed, because they are bred to have much clearer differences, but errors sometimes happen even with them.
 

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