Sexing 4 week old Easter Eggers

Lovely chicks! What did their coloring look like as baby chicks? I'm just curious as I have 2 that are about 2 weeks old. Curious about what they will look like! Just love the blue! Both are very pretty!

Anyone want to take a go at this kid? Top pic is at 3 weeks. Hatched from an egg marked "Easter Egger" but if that's an EE, I'll eat my hat.

Looks nothing like my other/previous EE babies. Has a giant SPIKEY comb started. Not a pea comb.

I am also a total novice so I could easily be wrong.

What do y'all think?

lizberry81 said:

Anyone want to take a go at this kid? Top pic is at 3 weeks. Hatched from an egg marked "Easter Egger" but if that's an EE, I'll eat my hat.

Looks nothing like my other/previous EE babies. Has a giant SPIKEY comb started. Not a pea comb.

I am also a total novice so I could easily be wrong.

What do y'all think?

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Well, agree not an EE, so you will not need to eat your hat!☺
Looks to be a cockerel with a comb (single or straight type) that size this young. Looks mostly like an australorp. Where did you get the egg?

Oh, and welcome to BYC!☺

LadiesAndJane said:

Well, agree not an EE, so you will not need to eat your hat!☺
Looks to be a cockerel with a comb (single or straight type) that size this young. Looks mostly like an australorp. Where did you get the egg?

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My Pet Chicken in the "intense colors" egg assortment.

lizberry81 said:

My Pet Chicken in the "intense colors" egg assortment.

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So intense color of eggs or intense color of chickens? What color was the egg?

Found this on their website, has to be one of these. You can probably narrow it down by eliminating the ones you know it is not. Looks like they have alot of mixes, hybrids:

Description:

This assortment of intense and unusually-colored eggs will knock your socks off! It's one of our most popular assortments—everyone loves a gorgeous egg basket. Your order will contain a selection of the following, including a minimum of three different breeds (the more eggs you purchase, the greater number of different breeds will be included!):

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• Barred Blue Egg Layer – These are black barred hens with big combs--and often a crest! They lay very large, blue-tinted eggs about 5 or 6 times per week.
• Barred Favaucana – We love our Favacaunas!They will be Blue/Black/Splash barred chicks, 94% of which lay a nice green egg.
• Barred Olive Egger –Barred chicks that will lay large olive eggs!
• Birchen Marans – Always a crowd pleaser, this breed lays the second-darkest egg that we've found, after the Black Copper Marans.
• Blue/Black/Splash Marans – You never know what color your chicks will hatch, but you'll love the dark eggs they lay.
• Black Copper Marans – One of our favorite breeds. Read more about them.
• Blue Favacauna – Favacaunas! Blue ones!
• Blue Olive Egger – These chicks will be 100% blue and lay a large olive egg.
• Blue Sex Link – These chicks are an interesting brood. The chicks are fat with big puffy cheeks and you can sex them as soon as they hatch. The males have a white dot on their head and the females are solid blue. The chickens range from very light to very dark blue in color and the hens lay large olive-colored eggs.
• Easter Egger – These are custom crosses! We breed for big eggs, frequent rate of lay, big beards, and hardiness. You'll find they're reliable layers of green and blue-green tinted eggs.
• Flowery Easter Egger – Most of these chicks will hatch crested, and grow into large, friendly birds that will lay green eggs. (About 6% will lay a light brown egg.) All of the flash of a Blommehonne, with production-like laying.
• Green Magnolia – A beautiful auto sexing green egg layer that are good foragers and friendly. Some will be crested!
• Lavender Ameraucana – Need we say more?Lavender color, beards and muffs, and blue-tinted eggs.
• Lavender Olive Egger – These chicks will have that beautiful Lavender color, and lay large olive eggs.
• Olive Egger –These eggs represent a number of different crosses, and lay eggs anywhere from sage green to a deep, army-type green.
• Sex Link Olive Egger –Lays large olive eggs!
• Splash Ameraucana – Beautiful splash birds that lay big blue-tinted eggs.
• Super Blue Egg Layer – These start out as yellow chicks and they grow into white hens with black flecks. They typically start laying at the early age of 24 weeks. These hens lay HUGE blue eggs, five to six times per week.

LadiesAndJane said:

So intense color of eggs or intense color of chickens? What color was the egg?

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Aha! A thing I know. Bluish like the Ameraucana egg (didn't hatch.)

lizberry81 said:

Aha! A thing I know. Bluish like the Ameraucana egg (didn't hatch.)

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Probably one of their hybrids then, ameraucana also have peacombs, EE are closely related to them.
Looks more like a marans hybrid, maybe one of their olive eggers? Since it is a cockerel, you may never know for sure! ☺

southcitychicks said:

An update- here they are at 9 weeks. still looking pullet-y?

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lol, I know this is old but very helpful and just look at That MUFF! Made my day. I want one