Rhode Island Red Rooster?

[eggburritos]

Hi everyone. I've been stalking these forums the past year and have finally registered! For my first post I have a question on the gender of the following chicken.

I apologize for the bad pictures. I will try and post a few better ones soon! Right now, I'm thinking roo. My chickens are about 19 weeks old right now. I had 6 originally but lost 1 at about 12 weeks for unknown reasons. This is the only RIR I have and it towers over the rest of them. I would appreciate your input. Thank you!

 

[featherz]

Rooster!!!!

 

[SpringChickens]

Rooster - for sure. I can see those telltale green iridescent tail feathers.

 

[afishel]

FOR SURE A ROO NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!! Looks just like my roo they are about the same age!!

 

[blefky]

Boy!

 

[BekahBear]

Cock-a-doodle-roo!

 

[bburn]

I agree. But my question to you is what breed are the two hens with the roo? I have some just like them and have looked at all the pictures and am still not sure. THEY have iridecent feathers also but they are in with the black feathers......

 

[eggburritos]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Angie, or I guess Angelo now

, will be going on craigslist today becasue I can't have any roosters in city limits. To answer the question, the two black hens are Black Australops. They are all black with a slight iridescence in their feathers.

 

[bburn]

Thanks!! That is what I thought and when I saw yours I thought I would ask. We have RIR's and just about 7 roo's out of 29 chickens. We also have Barred Rock and one Barred Rock Cochin for some reason! Now, for the mistery brown ones...hmmm....

 

[LaurieChickenMomma]

I am a newbie but the hens look like Black Stars (a sex link chicken) cross between Barred Rock and RIR look them up at McMurrays-they are egg laying machines. Brown medium to large eggs. Hope this helps. I have two of them also.