Black Polish Roo

[bart40330]

How about this guy?

 

[RAREROO]

Wow where did he come from.

I have 2 solid black polish hens and a GL polish roo that I bought as chicks this spring from TSC. I have been wondering about them, I didn't think polish were solid black. Thanks for posting this.

By the way. Those two black hens and the golden laced rooster are for sale as a trio only if anyone in Ga. is interested in buying them and picking them up. I am in Alapaha Ga. I'll try to get pics of them later.

 

[bart40330]

Someone dropped him and another roo just like him at my house.

The existing roos chased him and his brother to the neighbors. Do you think he is pure bred? I know he is beautiful even if he is a mix.

 

[becky3086]

Maybe he is a crevecoeur.

 

[bart40330]

Ah he is! They are a French chicken! That would explain why they ran!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crevecoeur_(chicken)

 

[becky3086]

Well, now just because it looks like one doesn't make it one. You really can breed a black Polish as well but I am not sure they would breed true (someone on ebay told me that they bred a golden Polish with some other color Polish and all the babies were black). I think you would have to hatch out a few to be sure if they were crevecoeur.

 

[bart40330]

Well he's got the double comb that looks like horns. Pretty sure that's what he is looking at every pic of them that I can find.

 

[becky3086]

Polish have the double horns on their combs as well.
Edited to say: I am really not sure there is a lot of difference between crevecoeur and Polish, not that I can see anyway.

 

[Dustin Biery]

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The only difference I see is that crevecoeurs actually come in a black. I know there has probably been black polish created by now. But if he was a Golden laced bred to another variety, you would certainly think he would have gold leaking in his hackles.

 

[Vcomb]

self black polish can be created in a few different ways, but generally the males take a few generations to become solid black. I used to have some but quit breeding them. the main difference between a black polish and a crevecouer is crevecouers have red earlobes and polish have white. there's also size and a slightly different bodytype.