Any idea on breed for my little rooster?

[noitulover]

This little bantam is the only rooster to our 18 hens. He is a great flock protector and used to sit on our shoulders until he got "too big" for that! We bought him as a cockerel around 6-8 weeks old... He was completely black then, with a bit of white fuzz around his face... Anyone have any guesses on his breed or mix of breeds? (This picture is a little old, and he has since feathered out a bit more, with a partially white tail feather (just one!) and more gold and red in his hackles and saddles, and more red shoulder.)

 

[Mandalina]

Oegb

 

[NYREDS]

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Not with that leg colour. It's a cross of some sort. Maybe part OEGB.

 

[ve]

To me he looks more Rock tipe but color is not pure to be sertan variety

 

[chicknjane]

He looks like a Barnavelder to me, although I don't know if they come in bantam. he is pretty.

 

[DTchickens]

Looks like a cross to me, I was kind of thinking Leghorn being slow today but i notice no white earlobes and he is probably a crowwing due to how dark he is. Rock? Possibly, but still a crossed one i would say, only one red variety (partridge) of rock i know of and it's duckwing. Plus i think he is kind of slender? For a rock, even if he is a bantam.

-Daniel.