are Turkey and Ostara boys or girls

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Halloweengirl13

Halloweengirl13

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Trying to figure out the gender of my two EE chicks, I think they are close to 4 months old. Turkey has no tail, Ostara does . these are the best pictures I can get right now, Ostara keeps moving and getting in the way.


Ostara's comb

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Turkeys comb

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Turkey Front body shot

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Ostara's back

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Can you get full body profiles a little further away so that the feather pattern can be seen in entirety?

Right now, I think Ostra is a pullet and Turkey is a roo....but my opinion may change with better photos.

Interestingly, they both have rose combs.

LofMc
 
Thank you for the additional photos.

I am still seeing pullet for Ostra and roo for Turkey.

In EE's, pullets will have an even pattern, like a kaleidoscope. That color, with an even pattern, indicate pullet as that is pretty much an pullet only color in EE's. (ETA, however if red should come into the wing bows, that would indicate roo as she has a similar color pattern but not the typical partridge female only EE color).

Roos have more color block patterning, like a quilt. And black and white is predominately a male color in EE's. I am seeing, even with the poor body shots, what appears to be color blocks on Turkey. Check that in person...does he have white blocks with black blocks of pattern? Coupled with the larger pink/red comb, I believe he is a roo. Black and white can be on occasion a female color, but the pattern must be even throughout of black/white penciling or partridging or lacing.

LofMc
 
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That's weird that they look like they have rose combs, it would make sense if I had hatched them because I have sebrights, but I got Ostara and Turkey from Tractor Supply... Of course I also got a duckling that they swore was a pekin and he turned out to be a lovely fawn and white runner. ....so I guess anything can happen with hatchery birds....
 
Turkey is not very cooperative with photo sessions. He kept freaking out when I tried to get close. He looks almost like he's barred on his chest and neck but it's messier looking on his back and wings
 
Not really, EE's are hybrids, mixes, of Ameraucana (usually which brings in peacomb, beard and muff and green legs, usually) and ANY other breed on the other side. Usually they are pea combed as pea comb is dominant over single.

However if the other side were something like a Wyandotte, which would be more unusual a mixing as there are more single combs than rose combs, typically, there's your rose comb....rose is dominant over pea (to my memory).

LofMc

EDITED TO ADD: Okay, had to refresh my memory as it was rusty...comb genetics are more complicated, but you can breed a pea comb bird to a rose comb bird and get a rose comb...which is what obviously happened in your EE's....but rose is not always dominant...

Pea comb will always be dominant over single though, which is why we get used to seeing pea comb EE's as that is most typical, and it won't always be dominant but can be over rose.

it's more complicted. If interested you can read it here.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/comb-genetics
 
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I have an EE Rooster who is ameraucana/Silkie crossed with a Cochin. His offspring have all kinds of combs. I have three older ones right now and one has straight, one has a rose comb, and one has a pea comb.
 
Yes they would have all kinds of combs as his genetics would include pea, rose (from walnut genetics of pea and rose dominant mixed, if I remember right), and recessive from single....so he is quite the genetic comb opportunity.

LofMc
 
Any idea on gender for this one

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And this one

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They are siblings so they look similar, the first has a crest and patterned wings. The second one does not, his wings have red splotches , that suggests boy right. I have hope for the first one still, I really want to keep it.
 
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