What breed is he?

[LindsayB]

Some of them can have alittle brown/gold feathers on their head and chest. Some are even dark brown instead of black. If you go to feathersite.com they have tons of photos of chicken breeds and some info on sex links.

 

[Chick1043]

Thanks! I will do that!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

It looks like a White Leghorn. Are you sure it's a rooster? There might be saddle feathers there, but I can't tell in the pic. If it's crowing, then it's a roo - if it's still younger than 4 months of age, it's a roo. But if it is full grown, it could be a female.

This was my White Leghorn Hen.

 

[Whiskey Bay]

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That would be a black sexlink hen. They generally get a brassy color hackles and some even get it in the breast area too. The roosters would look very much like a barred roo.
Red sexlink hens will be red and get whitish tail feathers when they completely feather out.The roos are generally white,lots of them will have some red discoloration in the wings.
Golden sexlink hens will be buff/light red colored with the white in the tail.

Your roo looks like a white leghorn.In general they are supposed to be yellow legged,however alot of pearl white leghorns tend to carry white legs.Hatchery quality birds also are not up to accepted standards of perfection and do not breed for this.They breed for Quantity,not Quality.Wrong leg coloring comes up alot in hatchery birds.

 

[codymax2]

Thats what I was thinking!! Looks like a hen to me =/
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[pinkwindsong]

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my girls also have black combs... not sure if all do but mine do and very small and dainty combs so far too..

 

[ChicKat]

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That does sound like a black sex-link pullet. (providing the other feathers are black) If your sex-link was a male, the feathers would look more like a Barred Plymouth Rock. Black sex-links are good layers of brown eggs, and they can start as early as 16 weeks.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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my guesse is red sex link rooster as well... thats the easy way to know if you got pullets or roos.. they guys are wht and the girls are red

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I missed this post and the fact that your chicken has red earlobes - yes, that means it's not a WLH. Weird - it's slender body looks like a leghorn. I've never seen a pure white sexlink before either - as far as I know, the white sexlink roosters will also have some red feathers and a different body type than yours.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html

 

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he looks like a deleware