What Gender and breed is this Chicken??

[kitmarlowescot2]

Yes roosters are usually larger than and this might be out of there but could the young rooster be a orloff rooster instead of a EE rooster ?
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Orloffs/BRKOrloff.html

 

[nakstk]

Wrong comb for an Orloff, they have raspberry combs. To the OP EE's come in so many different colors. They are just a mutt breed.

 

[hdowden]

This bird is much bigger and colored way unlike my other EE. Is that usual between hens and roos?

it is an ee cockerel. the cocks tend to be way more flashy than the pullets/hens. ee's can look like anything as they are a mix that carries the blue egg laying gene.

 

[hdowden]

Wrong comb for an Orloff, they have raspberry combs. To the OP EE's come in so many different colors. They are just a mutt breed.

orloff's have walnut combs theres no such thing as a raspberry comb

 

[kitmarlowescot2]

Oh okay, I thought maybe as he aged his comb would become larger.

 

[hdowden]

he has a lot of growing to do and his comb will get larger as he gets older

 

[nakstk]

orloff's have walnut combs theres no such thing as a raspberry comb

I just read that of the page that was posted "The major characteristics of the breed are its round head with full muffs and beard, topped off by a small raspberry comb." http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Orloffs/BRKOrloff.html The Orloff is a Russia breed so maybe they call the Walnut comb a raspberry comb.

 

[hdowden]

feathersite is good for pics thats about it though...it has a small walnut comb

The “Orloff” is a bearded, muffed, walnut combed breed....Early APA standards refer to the Orloff as having a “rose comb”. It's true the APA did call the comb rose, but when you read the description it was clearly what today would be called a walnut or strawberry comb and not a true rose comb.

 

[nakstk]

That was the link that kitmarlowescot2 had posted so I just read from it.
I am still learning. Even though I only have 8 girls, 5 SS , 2 Wellies and 1 EE I want to learn about all the nearly endless possibilities of chicken breed out there. Someday I would love to move someplace with more land for gardening, chickens and other animals.

 

[gryeyes]

Oh, keep this link to Henderson's Handy Dandy Chicken Breed Chart: www.Ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

And that's a handsome EE cockerel you've got there. He looks like he might grow up to be as gorgeous as my flock's dominant roo, Carl, also an EE of that distinctive pattern. Carl is 3 now and his comb is quite impressive for a pea comb, but his didn't develop until long after he was already crowing.