Comb looking awfully Red

[atho128]

9 week old Easter eggers and suddenly one of their combs turned bright orange? Is she/he a roo?!

 

[nuthatched]

There a lot of cockerels in these pictures.

 

[atho128]

There a lot of cockerels in these pictures.

Which ones do you think?

 

[nuthatched]

Which ones do you think?

Possibly all if them.

 

[atho128]

@GirlsHuntToo would you mind taking a look?

 

[atho128]

Possibly all if them.

What features make you say so? Just trying to learn what to look for

 

[nuthatched]

What features make you say so? Just trying to learn what to look for

Bright Red patches on the wings, the orange and black might be a pullet.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Would help if they were labeled, but orange and black is likely a girl, the rest are likely boys based on the darker red wing patches.

 

[AinaWGSD]

A comb that red at 9 weeks is a cockerel and you can see pointed saddle feathers just starting to come in

Red patches on the chest are common in males, females tend to have more even coloring and when they do have leakage it tends to be mostly on the neck.

Again, the blotchy unevenness in color is usually a male trait and the saddle feathers look pointy to me. Also, depending on what color the hen and rooster that produced this chick, the barring may be an indicator. If the hen was barred but the rooster was not only male offspring will have barring.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

@GirlsHuntToo would you mind taking a look?

I would say you have one male, the red one in the first picture.