24 Week old Roo, but what breed is he?

[Cowgirl71]

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If it helps any, your rooster is not part Silver Laced Wyandotte or Delaware. If he was, he'd be colored like a Silver Columbian (i.e. Columbian Wyandotte, Light Sussex, etc). So that narrows it down to White Rocks and Rhode Island Whites for the dam. Hatcheries almost always use a Rhode Island Red for the sire (Rhode Island Reds are better layers than New Hampshires). The most common Red Sexlink is a Rhode Island Red/Rhode Island White cross. In case this helps you any!

 

[lampshadeee69]

he looks like the standard white broiler. oftentimes pure white fowl are bred with large red or barred grays, or mixes, to avoid genetic problems, hence the slight red discoloration. When we get shipments of roosters in about 1 out of every 10 looks like this. some even have gray barred feathers all along their necks and then they are pure white on the rest of their bodies. it looks like you inadvertently saved a chicken from the slaughterhouse. be warned, though. the heavy breeds like that aren't meant to live very long. they were bred to grow very big, very fast. they are prone to massive heart attacks because of how rapidly they grow. I actually saw an article in National Geographic about that. Here's the picture they posted in the magazine.

guess which is which. both chickens are 8 weeks old.

 

[Time-Out]

Wow! That is a FANTASTIC pic! I'll add that to my collection of 'Photos to show people to scare them out of chicken-keeping'. I already have a buff orp roo sat on a tiny kid, from another thread and a lady carrying a jersey giant

 

[Hopefulloflove]

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How Sweet

 

[donrae]

Red sex-link rooster. Body is all wrong for a cornish X. Keep him for your girls--they deserve a gentleman!

 

[Chicky Chick Mama]

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Thanks, that was sort of what I was thinking after looking at some pictures from different breeders.

 

[Chicky Chick Mama]

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Hmmmm...well he is actually quite a bit smaller (both shorter and lighter weight) than the RIR roosters that are the same age [6 months]. He's no Sasquatch by any means. LOL

 

[Chicky Chick Mama]

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We agree!! One of the RIR roos is going in the morning. Cannot tolerate that bully another day (he even got after me).

But "Goldie" is a sweet heart.....so far.

Not sure his name fits now that he has grown into a roo, though. LOL

 

[mama24]

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He doesn't look ANYTHING like a Cornish rock cross. Neither do the chicks in your pic for that matter.

This is a cornish rock cross, or meat/broiler chicken

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Whatever he is...he is pretty and unique.