What breed am I!

[Illia]

Yup, he's a Black Sex Link cockerel. Quite common.

 

[donrae]

If you cross him with your hens you won't "get" anything in particular, just what's referred to as barnyard mix. Most of the hens you mentioned are good layers, and if he's a sex link he comes from good laying stock (theoretically, anyway), so any pullets should be good layers. And cockerals will make a decent meal

 

[emarble]

That is all I use my hens for is the eggs! The Cockrels will have to go elsewhere if someone wants to butcher Them Not That I am Squeemish or don't eat chicken but after beinraised on a farm and during the late summer/fall my Mom and Dad would butcher the chickens (sometimes 50 to 60 at a time) and it was the job of us kids to dip the chickens in hot water and pluck the feathers The Smell Of Hot Wet chicken Feathers is enough to even gag My strong stomach!!!! I'll buy my chickens from the store pre disposed of thank you!! Boneless chicken chicken breast or a young hen on the rotisserie or cornish game hens! No more pluckin for this missouri farm boy! I can skin a coon I can skin a Deer or squirrell or other but no Chicken pluckin

 

[BuffaloWings]

I would lean more toward the GCM. Certainly doesn't look like a black sex link to me. The roosters look just like a barred rock rooster. Now, I could see how you could get a rooster that looks like that from black sex link bred to another black sex link. The sex link thing only works when breeding from the original Barred Rock hen and Rhode Island Red rooster. If you breed sex link to sex link you are open to anything from what appears to be a Barred Rock to what apears to be a Rhode Island Red and anything in between.

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Why don't you skin them??? MUCH easier and doesn't take any time at all!!

 

[Baymule]

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This made me remember when I was in Ag in high school, we all raised chickens and consequently processed chickens for 3 weeks straight. It was 10 years before I would eat chicken again. LOL All I have is 2 layers, but I don't think it would bother me to clean my own chickens for meat now, just not 60 at one time!

 

[queenbeezz]

Emarble, I know just how you feel. Sounds like we grew up on the same farm. Eau de Wet Feathers, YUK. I never pluck my chickens, just skin them out.

 

[emarble]

Yea have only been able to eat chicken for about the last 10 years! Up to that point couldnt hardly stand to smell chicken fryin bakin or broilin! lmao! On the farm growing up my mother raised chickens and my father milked on an A grade milk route!

We raised from 75 to 100 chickens! My father loved fried chicken and we had chicken every sunday for as long as I can remember! If the Hen was too old or tough you broilded them or boiled them and made chicken noodles. Sunday dinner was always fried chcken and Mashed taters and gravy and biscuits! Not a surprising thing in the 50s and 60s when things were tight on a small mom and pop farm You usuallly grew everything you ate! At 40 years old I started back eating chicken and at 57 now raise my own but have not been brave enough to see if I could handle the smell of butchering a chicken!

No Qualms against killing things just figure the smell would turn me against eating chicken for another 30 years!! LMAO Dont think I have that much time to get over it this time!!!!!

 

[emarble]

Thanks Guys for all the info! What I do know is he was bought from a chick day sale at a farm supply store where a local hatchery brings in diffeent chick and sells them! I don't know if they breed crosses at these hatcheries or not!

Whatever he may be is fine with me it was a curiosity thing! He is the Pride of the Farm and is One Fantastic Roo in my Book! Him and I have a bond and share a common interest! 14 of the lovilest Ladies in the World and 7 beautiful acres in the midwest that WE Own! He has the spurs and knows how to use them and I handle the guns and know how to use them! Together we make a good Pair! One young Cock and one Middle aged Rooster (Me by the way (Ok so maybe a little over Middle aged)on second thought 2 Young Roosters! I aint that old just yet)!

Ernie

 

[gumbii]

gorgeous bird... but i have a question... i don't mean to derail or anything...


i'm new to chickens, and my first roo was this crele OEGB...

he has the same coloration and patterns like the one in the picture... wouldn't that make that one a crele too..? or why isn't this one called a black sex link...



btw, when i'm done with my back yard, i'm planning on getting some of these guys, but i didn't know what their names were... great thread...