A little help...?

[hdowden]

he is a cockerel 110% and a mix, appears to have some game in him

 

[sierras mom11]

My Guess would be heavy on EE blood, he is pea combed, and does not show any waddle development like a bearded EE even though he has no beard himself, but also has more tail,and the longer legs of like a Saipan, Malay or Aseel.

 

[YardBirdCovert]

My guess would not be an EE. Legs too long, & too big. Looks more gamey to me. Is his comb natural or can you tell if it has been cut off? What did the person keep the chickens for?

His comb looks natural and easter eggy. When I compare him to pictures of EE roosters, his legs are a lot longer. The person that kept that them bred and sold them for various reasons and it had turned into sort of a hoarding situation. We also seized bantams, guineas, doves, goats, piglets, rabbits, cats, and a lot of puppies/breeder dogs because they were operating as a puppy mill as well. I wish I had a picture of some of the roosters we seized from the property; they were ENORMOUS! Cock-fighting is sort of a problem in that county but we did not find any paraphernalia (other than the dead birds that they were trying to burn in a fire pit when we arrived at the property).

 

[donrae]

He's a nice barnyard mix rooster. I'd agree to easter egger, game in the background.

He'd sure make some good eatin' babies with those long legs!

Do you have any other mature roosters? That can inhibit crowing. Or perhaps just the situation he was in traumatized him? He could just be young, but he's all boy.

 

[YardBirdCovert]

No other roosters. We can't have roosters in the city limits. He's outta here the second he crows! I do wish I could see how big he grows up to be.

 

[ChickenGrit]

I had a big EE rooster---maybe EE--got it from Tractor Supply as an Americuna, so it probably wasn't.

He's not full grown in this picture. Only about 3 months.

 

[ChickenGrit]

Yours reminds me of another from the same batch. This one never crowed. We rehomed all of them at about 5 months old. There were 4 roosters. The first started crowing at about 2.5 months. The second started at about 4.5 months, and the last two didn't crow. Yours probably had other roosters with him at the old place and may take a bit to realize he can crow without another rooster attacking him.

 

[YardBirdCovert]

That DOES look like him. Well, maybe he'll never crow and he'll get to stay. Although at this point I don't think he realizes he's the only boy around.