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Help me guess genders of EE/Ameraurcana chicks, 4-5 wo

post #1 of 15
5/7/12 at 1:11pm
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hi all,

 

These little guys are a little over 4 weeks old now, and it's time to start guessing...who's a girl?

 

Candidate #1

This is the one I think is most likely a boy.  Comb seems a little more prominent to me than on others.  And it keeps chest-bumping others and sometimes even pecking to establish dominance.

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Candidate #2

Girl, I think.  Tiny little comb.

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Candidate #3

I just don't know.  Smallest tail of the lot, by far.

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Candidate #4

I can't tell on this one either.  The pic of the comb is washed out a bit (taken by my preschooler), but it's kind of in the range of chick #3--neither gaining prominence, nor noticeably small.  It's legs are yellow, whereas everyone else in this lot had grey-green legs.  The parents were three grey-green legged females and a yellow-legged male.  I don't know if leg color is at all sex-linked in EE.

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So, what do you think?


Edited by CT - 5/7/12 at 1:42pm

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post #2 of 15
5/7/12 at 1:26pm

hrm, the pics don't come up except as a large group, and I'm going cross-eyed trying to go back and forth to match the pics with the bird.  Can you upload the pics directly to BYC?

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post #3 of 15
5/7/12 at 1:46pm
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Yes, I just finished.  BYC has made it so darn easy to post pics now that I got myself thoroughly confused trying much more complicated approaches. :p But it should be easy to view now.  Thanks for checking!

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10 Welsh Harlequins and 2 Pekins

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post #4 of 15
5/7/12 at 1:50pm

EE 1 and 3 are cockerals....you can tell by both the combs and the red on the shoulders. Not as sure on the othere 2 since the coloring is hen-like, but those combs still look pretty bumpy for pullets to me.

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post #5 of 15
5/7/12 at 1:57pm

Definitley 1, possibly 3... are cockerals...

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post #6 of 15
5/7/12 at 2:41pm

1 and 3 are for sure cockerels 

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post #7 of 15
5/7/12 at 2:45pm

I agree with the 1 and 3 being cockerels. 

 

I also wanted to say that I think your preschooler does an excellent job taking pictures! smile.png

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post #8 of 15
5/7/12 at 4:20pm

I do not see a pullet's comb in the entire bunch, to tell the truth. Pretty Easter Eggers, though!

 

 

They all look like cockerels' combs, wide with all three rows of "peas" prominent already. Even #2 has a super wide comb for an EE pullet, but that may be your only slim hope for a girl, IMO. If those were Ameraucanas or Easter Eggers in my coop, I'd call all males.


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post #9 of 15
5/7/12 at 4:31pm
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I do not see a pullet's comb in the entire bunch, to tell the truth. Pretty Easter Eggers, though!

 

 

They all look like cockerels' combs, wide with all three rows of "peas" prominent already. Even #2 has a super wide comb for an EE pullet, but that may be your only slim hope for a girl, IMO. If those were Ameraucanas or Easter Eggers in my coop, I'd call all males.


I agree. #2 is the only one with a small chance of being a pullet.

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post #10 of 15
5/7/12 at 4:35pm

#2 looks to be the only pullet

 

 

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