This is a chicken I am thinking about buying to put in with my Rhode Island Red hens. Just trying to figure out what breed it but all the pictures I’ve found are similar so I’m not sure and these are the only pictures she has sent me. Any help would be great.
Can anyone tell me if this is a leghorn or a Rhode Island white? Thanks!
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White Rocks are even more commonly used in meat production. They're used to make Cornish Crosses. White Rocks are very common in backyard flocks-much more common than RIWs who are stocked by only a handful of hatcheries and those that do, only out-of-standard birds. Furthermore, this bird is massive. Not quite Cornish Cross massive but big-boned none the less. This is very consistent with a White Rock since they are very commonly over standard weight due to their selection for meat quantities when compared to other Plymouth Rock varieties. Hatchery SC RIWs are marketed towards laying and are not as course boned as this bird. I would even counter and say that with the improper comb type, they shouldn't even be called RIWs to begin with as they're missing a crucial trait of the breed (similar to EEs being marketed as Ameraucanas). Regardless even hatchery RIWs are very uncommonly sold and White Rocks are sold by many more big name hatcheries and are more common overall. When you hear hoofbeats, think horse not zebra
Rhode Island Whites by standard have rose combs and are quite uncommon. He appears to be a White Rock 
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Almost every hatchery sells white Rocks, they're more common than R.I.W but since they look identical...we'll never know.
Most battery birds are sex links anymore.
I'm not going to post regarding breed as I can't add anything of use there beyond what's already been posted, I just want to point out that this is incorrect--it's the opposite cross that would make sexlinked chicks. Rhode Island Red male over silver-based Rhode Island White females is what you want. This is because females can only pass sexlinked genes to their sons, never to their daughters. Males, however, can pass sexlinked genes to offspring of either sex. The silver gene is the sexlinked gene in this equation. So the RIW being the male means ALL chicks inherit silver from him, whereas the male being a RIR and the RIW being the female in the cross means only the male chicks can inherit silver, making them distinguishable from their red sisters at hatch.
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It would be dead before this level of maturity unless it was kept on a restrictive diet, in which case, it would already be established as a Cornish x.
Looks like a meat bird to me, too. The breast is very broad, the body very plump, the legs short and thick.
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CX, for sure.
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Thank you for all of your input! I will not be getting him. We are just looking for a rooster to put with our RIR girls to make cinnamon queens or red sex link. We aren’t new to chickens but have never really paid attention to specific breeds until now. We have a barnyard mix but are trying to get to the point where we could hatch our own next year! 
In your photos, he's got that broad-breasted, stocky appearance of a Rhode Island. But he's also got red earlobes. That makes him a Rhode Island White breed:
White Leghorns have white earlobes and are more slender:
White Leghorns have white earlobes and are more slender:
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