Any guesses what kind of chicken breed I've got here?

[ColtHandorf]

I love the look he's giving the camera in the last photo of him. Too cute!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

It’s nice that you took him in and are helping him live the good life!

 

[nickylou665]

I love the look he's giving the camera in the last photo of him. Too cute!

He is a cutie! Makes it hard to consider what to do with the fella, since I've already got two adult roosters, he's got a step-sibling that's a probable cockerel, and that leaves my hens with... a lot of rooster in their life with the future promise of even more roostering to come.

I do get a kick out of letting him see the phone screen, he's the only chicken I have that's seemed to show an interest in it. The squinty face picture is part of a series where I turned the camera around to the front (so you can see the screen/take a selfie) and he kept pecking at the chicken on the screen. Too adorable! I've made the mistake of getting attached, again.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Since he's a Cornish cross I wouldn't worry too much about him attempting to breed. I don't think their sex drive is as developed as their appetite. lol

 

[nickylou665]

Since he's a Cornish cross I wouldn't worry too much about him attempting to breed. I don't think their sex drive is as developed as their appetite. lol

Haha, thanks for the tip! That might work in his favor.

 

[Compost King]

I had a Cornish cross pullet I saved from slaughter. I never limited her feed. She was raised with 2 Leghorn pullets and an Andalusian pullet. She learned to be a normal chicken despite being larger than them.....
Good luck!

Although my CX died at 15 weeks (not oversized because I did ration feed) I raised her with another bird about the same age in a pen with a huge compost pile, the CX followed the lead of the other pullet and started scratching for feed. I found that raising them with a breed that loves to forage rubs off on them and goes much further than simply rationing feed. Sometimes my CX would not even finish her rations because she wanted to follow the pullet who loved to forage.

 

[drumstick diva]

For whatever time is left, i know yours will have a good life because of you.

 

[nickylou665]

For whatever time is left, i know yours will have a good life because of you.

Thank you! I will try to give them one.

 

[debid]

Hello!

The stinker in the photos below is Ditzy the teenage chick. I took him in from a young lady who was raising him as a single chick, but she didn't have any information on this chicken other than it's a chicken who was "about a week old" at the time, which would place them at about five-ish weeks right now if she was correct.

Same girl also told me the breed was "Oh I dunno, normal white chicken, whatever you'd get" and "it HAS to be a girl, I took it because it's the sweetest and friendliest." So. Since Murphy's Law bolted out of bed and tied their running shoes the moment that theory was uttered into the world, Ditzy is proving themselves to probably be a rooster. Therefore I will say the age is approximate.

So going off of the "it's the normal white chicken," any guesses about breed? Ditzy's all white, looks like a single comb is coming in and full of energy. Food boob almost always present and HUGE. Seems to be on track to match the size and weight of my layer barnyard mix teenager chicks who are only a week-ish older than Ditzy, and the stinker loves to run, so I would suppose that means Ditzy is probably not a meat bird - however that's just an uneducated guess. I'm assuming leghorn, but I really don't know my chicken breeds that well, so thought I would cast the net out and see what the group thought.

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Honestly, I'm not sure how everyone has declared him a Cornish X rather than just a white rock cockerel. He has decent feather coverage in spite of unlimited (and presumably 20% protein) chick feed. CX normally grow too fast for the feathers to cover in the first several weeks and would be quite sedentary, not running around.

 

[nickylou665]

Honestly, I'm not sure how everyone has declared him a Cornish X rather than just a white rock cockerel. He has decent feather coverage in spite of unlimited (and presumably 20% protein) chick feed. CX normally grow too fast for the feathers to cover in the first several weeks and would be quite sedentary, not running around.

I'm going to try to not get excited by your vote, but I was looking at him yesterday and he doesn't seem to have the wide legged stance that Cornish cross chickens seem to have. Husband and I were talking yesterday that if he was a cornish cross, then in theory he is near the minimum age for processing, and he just doesn't look like something we'd want to eat right now. He's all food boob, feet and wings. I'm resigned to him being a meat bird, but since I've never raised Cornish X I'm not sure what to look for.

I'm going to try and get better photos of him over the next few days, but he's such a fast booger it might take a little while.