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Am I looking at two boys?

post #1 of 11
6/26/11 at 11:38am
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Hi, everyone!  I'd love your experienced eye on trying to figure out if these are boys or girls.  I have a small coop & backyard so would like to rehome the roos asap or as soon as I know they're roos!  I have three chicks that I hatched from green eggs that are a cross from a Lavender Ameraucana daddy and Easter Egger mothers.  So beautiful!  One, actually, isn't as pretty and is almost rumpless (just a few odd feathers sticking out), no comb, small, and gentle.  I am inclined to think that's a girl and I'm calling her Betty La Mas Fea (Ugly Betty).

But, these two, I'm just not sure.  There's been no fighting amongst them so their behavior isn't telling me much.  They're almost 10 weeks old.
Here is the first and I guess I've sort of resigned myself that this is a roo.  Am I wrong?:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68702_img_9503.jpg

Here is my Lavender.  Hoping it's a girl:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68702_img_9498.jpg

Anybody who has had lots of ameraucanas/easter eggers that can give me a good guess?

two children, one jack russell puppy, and the poultry crowd: 1 blue laced red wyandotte, 1 silver spangled spitzhauben, 1 black copper marans, 1 rhode island red.  also, 1 mille fleur d'uccle and 1 lavender easter egger pullets.
"There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight" -Shakespeare, "A MidSummer's Night Dream"
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two children, one jack russell puppy, and the poultry crowd: 1 blue laced red wyandotte, 1 silver spangled spitzhauben, 1 black copper marans, 1 rhode island red.  also, 1 mille fleur d'uccle and 1 lavender easter egger pullets.
"There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight" -Shakespeare, "A MidSummer's Night Dream"
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post #2 of 11
6/26/11 at 11:52am

His coloration suggests that your guess is right, but I am a bit thrown by the lack of comb development.  It looks like a late bloomer either way.

Your second lovely blue girl is definitely a pullet. 

They're gorgeous EEs!

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
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"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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post #3 of 11
6/26/11 at 11:56am

I think they are both pullets, but a better view of the saddle and tail feathers on the first bird would help.  smile  The second one def looks pullet based on feathers and lack of comb development.

Chicken math strikes again... we are now at 16 hens!  half are pullets that will start laying soon.  We just adopted 6 bcm chicks, and next week we'll have 25 surprise rare breed pullets and 2 female leghorn chicks.  :)  I love spring!!!!
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Chicken math strikes again... we are now at 16 hens!  half are pullets that will start laying soon.  We just adopted 6 bcm chicks, and next week we'll have 25 surprise rare breed pullets and 2 female leghorn chicks.  :)  I love spring!!!!
Friend my hens on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HathawayHens

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post #4 of 11
6/26/11 at 11:57am

Both pullets

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post #5 of 11
6/26/11 at 12:45pm

How old are they?  Based on what I see in the pics and not knowing their age, I'm leaning towards both pullets.

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post #6 of 11
6/26/11 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by stellacat 

Both pullets


x2

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post #7 of 11
6/26/11 at 2:16pm

Both pullets.

Mother of 5 Nigerian dwarf goats, 2 dogs, 7 chickens from Key West, 1 mottled Aracuana, a lavender Araucana, pair of lavender Ameraucanas,  4 seramas, 1 frizzled naked neck bantam, a BC Marans, a couple of olive egger's, a buff orp mix, 2 silkies, several random mixes,16 year old son, 21 year old daughter and 47 year old DH.
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Mother of 5 Nigerian dwarf goats, 2 dogs, 7 chickens from Key West, 1 mottled Aracuana, a lavender Araucana, pair of lavender Ameraucanas,  4 seramas, 1 frizzled naked neck bantam, a BC Marans, a couple of olive egger's, a buff orp mix, 2 silkies, several random mixes,16 year old son, 21 year old daughter and 47 year old DH.
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post #8 of 11
6/26/11 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by fluffychickens 
Quote:
Originally Posted by stellacat 

Both pullets


x2


x3

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Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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post #9 of 11
6/26/11 at 2:36pm
Thread Starter 

really, both pullets?!!  How exciting for me!  Thank you, I think they're beautiful too!  About their combs, it seems all 3 of the chicks I kept have pea combs, probably like their dad?.  I'm so excited they're all beautiful girls!

two children, one jack russell puppy, and the poultry crowd: 1 blue laced red wyandotte, 1 silver spangled spitzhauben, 1 black copper marans, 1 rhode island red.  also, 1 mille fleur d'uccle and 1 lavender easter egger pullets.
"There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight" -Shakespeare, "A MidSummer's Night Dream"
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two children, one jack russell puppy, and the poultry crowd: 1 blue laced red wyandotte, 1 silver spangled spitzhauben, 1 black copper marans, 1 rhode island red.  also, 1 mille fleur d'uccle and 1 lavender easter egger pullets.
"There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight" -Shakespeare, "A MidSummer's Night Dream"
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post #10 of 11
6/26/11 at 2:40pm

Easter eggers can be really slow to getting a comb even boys, but I agree that i think they are both girls. The first one has a bit longer tail but the feathers in the saddle area still look round to me and not pointy and long like a roo.

Farm Mama to 1 BC Maran Rooster, 2 Black Sex Linked girls, 4 Easter Egger hens, 1 Cinnamon Queen hen,  and 1 Aussie Shepard.

Chicks: 2 EE, 3 Barred Rock pullets, 1 SL Wyandotte, 3 Marans.
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Farm Mama to 1 BC Maran Rooster, 2 Black Sex Linked girls, 4 Easter Egger hens, 1 Cinnamon Queen hen,  and 1 Aussie Shepard.

Chicks: 2 EE, 3 Barred Rock pullets, 1 SL Wyandotte, 3 Marans.
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