What breed is my Roo????

candrnyen

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Hi,

I was wondering if you could tell me what breed my rooster is.

thanks
C J


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Very pretty bird.......looks like a brown leghorn to me!!!!......but he is a little big for a leghorn?
 
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I don't know for sure.... he looks an awful lot like my Roo. I thought mine were RIR's but just posted a question in this forum and one says maybe a New Hampshire Red.

Check out mine and see if they look the same..

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Note the large white earlobes & yellow legs. Certainly looks to be a Light Brown Leghorn to me.
However, he does appear heavily builprobably a hatchery bred Leghorn.
 
Yeah I was wondering about those large earlobes,,,,my leghorns have small white earlobes but they are banties
 
does this breed get aggressive? He has been showing signs, that possibly, there is a mean streak in him. He picks on some of my hens. Yesterday he pecked my daughter. I have never had an aggressive rooster.
thanks
C J
 
I heard that RIR roos can get pretty aggressive. Not sure if that's what he is, but that's my guess.

Sorry.
 
Here is an article on what you can do to calm a mean rooster down. Maybe if you start while he's just showing a few signs you can head the bad behavior off at the pass.
 
Thank you all so much!! your advice is wonderful I am going to try to befriend him. I really hope it works. He is the only rooster I kept and I would hate to see him on the bun:
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I don't have to worry right now about passing that bad gene on because I am collecting eggs now and I am not letting my hens hatch them. I really would not want that gene to continue.

You guys are all so great!!! thanks a ton
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C J
 

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