This guy just does not match any breed in the book. HELP Please

[202roosterlane]

I bought this guy at the Beebe Flea Market.

What he is not and why ( I hope)


Not a jungle fowl (colors and comb wrong)
Not a black breasted because it does not have a pointed rose comb and white oh the head
Not a Lemon Blue Old engish - wrong color legs, wrong comb, wrong tail feathers.
Not a light brown Dutch bantam wrong comb, does not have white ear lobes



I think this looks more like a welsummer BUT he does not have a single comb.

The only other thing I can possible think is this is a red dorking. It has five toes. Greenish hue tail feathers a partial white feather on lower belly. I also think mine just happens to have a little more red hackle and sadlles feathers than the one shown in the book(Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry breeds) page 86.

WHAT DO YOU THINK

Also did you notice it looked like someone cut his top beak. Why would they do this?

 

[Illia]

They do it because he was raised in a very poor environment, likely crowded with many many other birds.


Black Breasted Red is a color not a breed. He actually is a Black Breasted Red.

You gotta consider, most poultry books miss out on one breed or another, or only state a certain breed being in a couple colors. He's very likely an American Gamefowl of sorts. Many do have pea combs, most are dubbed so you can't tell.

 

[clairabean]

He is beautiful! Any ideas on where he came from before the flea market? Don't they cut the hens beaks in big hatcheries for fighting control? Maybe it broke off from fighting? Is he a meanie?

I have a similar that I assumed was a welsummer. Sweetest, shyest roo.

 

[202roosterlane]

well the welsummer has a more pronouced single comb and does not have 5 toes. Does your rooster have toes like in these pic? I think mine in a bantam not a standard. I don't know. I hope someone more people can chime in

 

[202roosterlane]

I have no idea where he came from (other than Arkansas). I assume he is just a home grown fiesty roo. He did act like frilled dragon (neck feather spalled out like an umbrella) when confronting Big Red ( RIR rooster) through the chicken wire and begin to do the chest to fence bumping.

 

[EggNoob]

might be a mutt.. kinda looks like he has copper maran in him..

 

[202roosterlane]

Thanks I am still think Red Dorking because of the comb and 5th toe.

 

[donrae]

I'm not seeing the fifth toe. Are you counting the spur as a toe, or am I just not seeing it?

 

[Illia]

He doesn't have 5 toes. . . . Also, Dorkings are extremely meaty, short legged, round bodied birds with single combs. I still say he's either just a mutt or a Gamecock.

 

[magicpigeon]

I'm not seeing any 5th toe either