Can anyone help identify what breed this rooster is?

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC. I'm so sorry for your loss. Your rooster is very nice looking. His coloring and comb make me think he is a backyard mix.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and welcome to BYC. Your rooster is a cross bred - flat out gorgeous !

 

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC! pretty rooster.

 

[Chicken queen 57]

Thank you all for welcoming me to this group. I think he was just a mixed breed, I have hatched one clutch out of him and my hens. I don't know what my RIR's looked like as baby chicks, because a friend gave me 5 when they were about 2 months old. This really kept me busy! Here are some pics of incubating to brooder to bigger homemade brooder, now they're in a big brooder in the storage building, still not yet big enough to introduce to my flock, but I'm getting ready to put them in one side, and close them, to where the big chickens can see them, just not get to them. Any advice would be appreciated???

 

[TwoCrows]

Thank you all for welcoming me to this group. I think he was just a mixed breed, I have hatched one clutch out of him and my hens. I don't know what my RIR's looked like as baby chicks, because a friend gave me 5 when they were about 2 months old. This really kept me busy! Here are some pics of incubating to brooder to bigger homemade brooder, now they're in a big brooder in the storage building, still not yet big enough to introduce to my flock, but I'm getting ready to put them in one side, and close them, to where the big chickens can see them, just not get to them. Any advice would be appreciated???

You can mix chicks in with adults when they are 3 or 4 months of age. Any younger and they can get injured. Keep the chicks in a cage or pen within the flock at all times for at least 2 weeks, everybody sees but cant touch. After 2 weeks, mix them together. Make sure there is plenty of room, hidy places, levels to escape to, etc.. also add an extra food and water station so the little ones don't have to compete. If the adults get too violent or there is blood shed, you may want to cage any adult bullies for a while so the chicks can settle in and learn the ropes. It takes a few months to fully integrate and get peace within the flock. Good luck!

 

[janiedoe]

This may not help with this bunch, but maybe next time.
I usually raise mine with a broody hen, but when I don't have a broody, I start them out in a brooder, inside the coop. By the time they are 10 to 12 weeks, they are already mixing in with the big flock. I've never had any problems, but I do have a pretty laid-back flock.

 

[DobieLover]

I have integrated chicks starting at 4-5 weeks old and by the time they were 7 weeks old they were roosting with the adult flock.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Welcome to the coop! I look at the articles and use the forums tab for specific questions I have. You can get lost for hours!
He is a handsome boy!

 

[Tookie]

Hello, welcome to BYC! Glad yo joined us!

Beautiful rooster! Looks like a mixed breed to me.

 

[Nomadicus]

Thanks for letting me join this forum, I am new, have been raising chickens as long as I can remember, mostly game, when I was a child. As I grew older started raising heavy breeds, my husband passed away in March, so my brother suggested incubating eggs, as my hens are about 3 years old and I'll need new layers, they are Rhode Island Reds, but I have no idea what the rooster is, he just showed up, and nobody claimed him. He's been here since my husband passed. Does anyone have any idea what he might be? I also included a pic of one of my hens. Thank you in advance!

I think you could call him a Red Landrace and get by with it.