100% Roo.... the comb and the dark red on the wings are a dead give away!I need help with my EE....
Roo or pullet.... My hubby and I are very undecided.... By the tail feathers I am thinking roo.... What do you all think?
dark red on wings... Roo?
From these photos Harpo and Camo are the only 2 cockerels I see. Camo definitely, Harpo I'm not 100% sure on. I'm basing off the colors mostly, so Camo has all boy color and nice deep red on his shoulders. I see a little tiny bit of red on Harpo's shoulder, but not too much. However, he's got the splotchy-ness in his overall coloring that males have, therefore making me think cockerel.Here are updated pics, from today, of the "girls"...
Mork - calm and quiet
Mindy - very mellow. Normally hangs with Cher and one of the most outgoing.
Sonny - always on the bottom of the pile, follows what everyone else is doing
Cher - super dominant and very outgoing. She is the first one to check things out, eat, drink, and greet me. She was right next to me the whole time I was taking pictures, chatting with the chicken I was taken pics of.
Pearl - very loud when handled. She sounds like a seagull getting attacked by a cat.
Opal - pretty calm, just sort of does whatever everyone else is doing
Ruby - has been charging at the other babies a lot lately
Groucho - very quiet and shy, normally following Mindy and Cher around.
Harpo - hides behind everybody else, makes the softest tiniest peep ever.
This is the wing that the other chicks attacked. It has healed up nicely, and as you can see feathers are starting to come back in.
Camo - very flighty, bottom of the pack, normally hiding with Harpo. The only place there are still alot of pin feathers, is down the back and by its "ears".
Here are a couple of the youngest (7 wk old) group. They all have almost identical coloring, and really dark greyish black colored legs.
Barbie
Midge - is super tiny. Maybe 1/2 the size of the other girls that she was supposedly hatched with. She can sit in my hand at 7 weeks old.
That's a beautiful pullet. Go right ahead and get her!I've read and looked at a lot on this thread, and I seem to be getting the hang of it (judging my guesses against other posters responses). I raised an EE chick, and fell in love, but he was, well, a he, so he had to go. I have been looking for a pullet to replace him for a while now, and found a nice looking bird from what seems to be a good home, but it will be about an hour and a half one way for me, so I want to be confident I am getting a pullet. The gal sent some pictures, and says it's female, but then, do I see some deeper red blotches in the wings? Or am I over thinking this? I really appreciate the help.
So pretty, I really want one!
You're right on the money. Monster is a cockerel and Alice is a pullet. I love her legs!! I had to look twice because at first I thought, "Noo... That must me edited!" They are awesome!I hatched 2 EE's June 28th...so they are a month old now. I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I wanted to post pictures and get opinions. Monster is the darker one with the much larger and redder comb..which is why I am sure he is a roo. Alice is the lighter peachy colored one and looks like a pullet to me. Am I right?
Monster
Alice
I also wanted to ask...they both had huge puffy cheeks until they started to feather out..when does that come back?
Definitely a cockerel there.I need help with my EE....
Roo or pullet.... My hubby and I are very undecided.... By the tail feathers I am thinking roo.... What do you all think?
dark red on wings... Roo?
I would be too! That is usually the scenario around here. My girl is 22 weeks and no egg from her yet. She is the only EE I kept so she had better be colorful! I miss those pretty green eggs. I am thinking of getting some bantam EE's for my new little Lil Buddy rooster. My dear husband moved him in with the girls yesterday (much to my horror after all my efforts to create a quarantine stall !) because he had brought too big a load of hay and had to put it somewhere (still no excuse for my chickster's health and now he realizes how much they mean to me). Anyway they beat the tar out of the little guy, I couldn't believe it. So with my nice clothes on when I came home I picked him up from his hiding place and he sat on my lap trying to coax the hens with the mealworms in my hand and they just came over one by one and tried to pull on his feathers. I hope I don't end up with a disaster on my hands since the hens just started laying good, but at least he has had his little butt powdered with lice powder and the stall was covered with shavings then DE just in case. I guess they don't think he is as handsome as I do. Now I have to figure out where to house him and a tiny flock for him.
I am literally on my way out the door!That's a beautiful pullet. Go right ahead and get her!
What are these feathers? I thought they might be hackle feathers coming in, but I think they are too high up.
