What breed?

[Waylonsmommy11]

That looks like a beautiful porcelain d'Uccle cockrel. They are my second favorite breed and my first favorite color. I hope I'm wrong on gender, for your sake.
This is our boy Slate
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And a hen, Icy
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It’d be fun to have a roo to hatch chicks. But i really don’t want him attacking our little ones since they’re gonna grow up fast and grow up helping us take care of them. I would hate for it to be a roo bc it’s so gorgeous and if it’s an ass we’d have to get rid of it for safety

 

[tn_artist]

It’d be fun to have a roo to hatch chicks. But i really don’t want him attacking our little ones since they’re gonna grow up fast and grow up helping us take care of them. I would hate for it to be a roo bc it’s so gorgeous and if it’s an ass we’d have to get rid of it for safety

I can't speak for individual birds, but our two d'Uccle roos have never even looked at is sideways. Of course they are never the top roo either. We do have a bantam Cochin roo that attacked my daughter a couple of weeks she because she was going to pick up a hen. I carried him around the yard, pecking his head with my finger for about 20 minutes. If it happens again he will have to go. Then my daughters pet will be top roo. He is about eight inches tall when he stretches up. She is not afraid of him.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Oh, the new picture is quite telling... and you might be right!

I agree that's a porcelain d'uccle cockerel. No way to tell if he will have issues controlling his hormones and attitude yet... all birds ARE individuals. I probably would not risk it with young ones... but MIGHT give him the benefit of the doubt since the only thing he's guilty of is having testicles. Some boys ARE fantastic... especially ones they get past their teenage hormonal phase.

@Folly's place may have some d'uccle experience to share as I believe she breeds milli fleurs.

 

[Folly's place]

I haven't had a rooster attack chicks, but then I'm fussy about cockerel and rooster temperament, and don't keep any that are nasty to flockmates (or people).
How any individual bird behaves is just so __individual__ it's not all that predictable.
A friend had a cockerel who was an orphan, and took chicks four weeks younger literally under his wings and raised them. it was adorable, and he became 'Uncle Nanny' forever!
Mary