Sexing Easter Eggers

[Frazzemrat1]

For easter eggers, their coloring is female. The patterns are female. There's no male coloring.

 

[HudsonChix]

Hi Everyone: Thanks in advance for your help. I'm excited to be a first time chicken mom. These were supposedly 98% hens, but I was hoping to get your help with identifying one (maybe all of them!). Three are ameraucana chickens (ee?), two are Buff Orpington, and one is Rhode Island Red. I tried to use wing and tail feathers at a young age, and all of them seemed to look female. As they grew older (I got them as chicks first week of April), they all acted like pullets except for one of the ameraucana/ee. She was always herding the others, jumping on them, pushing them out of the way. She would always run away from me while the others would basically let me hold them. Two days ago she pecked at me when I reached in the coop to get her; today I went out and she was half-crowing. Up until today, I attributed all that to the hen's pecking order, and I know hens can crow, but today her wattle even looks more red than the others. The first collection is the five that I think seem to act and look like pullets. The second collection is five shots of the ameraucana/ee that I think now might be a cockerel (with two of the shots showing him/her in comparison). Of course, I'm happy to be wrong on all of them...I've been wrong at least once today. Thanks again for your help!

First Collection....Pullets I think

Second collection--all of same "mean" guy/girl that acts different from all the rest.

 

[RinaRoo]

I'd say you definitely have a Cockerel there.

 

[cstephens1987]

Hi Everyone: Thanks in advance for your help. I'm excited to be a first time chicken mom. These were supposedly 98% hens, but I was hoping to get your help with identifying one (maybe all of them!). Three are ameraucana chickens (ee?), two are Buff Orpington, and one is Rhode Island Red. I tried to use wing and tail feathers at a young age, and all of them seemed to look female. As they grew older (I got them as chicks first week of April), they all acted like pullets except for one of the ameraucana/ee. She was always herding the others, jumping on them, pushing them out of the way. She would always run away from me while the others would basically let me hold them. Two days ago she pecked at me when I reached in the coop to get her; today I went out and she was half-crowing. Up until today, I attributed all that to the hen's pecking order, and I know hens can crow, but today her wattle even looks more red than the others. The first collection is the five that I think seem to act and look like pullets. The second collection is five shots of the ameraucana/ee that I think now might be a cockerel (with two of the shots showing him/her in comparison). Of course, I'm happy to be wrong on all of them...I've been wrong at least once today. Thanks again for your help!

First Collection....Pullets I think
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Second collection--all of same "mean" guy/girl that acts different from all the rest.
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Four pullets and a cockerel

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Hi Everyone: Thanks in advance for your help. I'm excited to be a first time chicken mom. These were supposedly 98% hens, but I was hoping to get your help with identifying one (maybe all of them!). Three are ameraucana chickens (ee?), two are Buff Orpington, and one is Rhode Island Red. I tried to use wing and tail feathers at a young age, and all of them seemed to look female. As they grew older (I got them as chicks first week of April), they all acted like pullets except for one of the ameraucana/ee. She was always herding the others, jumping on them, pushing them out of the way. She would always run away from me while the others would basically let me hold them. Two days ago she pecked at me when I reached in the coop to get her; today I went out and she was half-crowing. Up until today, I attributed all that to the hen's pecking order, and I know hens can crow, but today her wattle even looks more red than the others. The first collection is the five that I think seem to act and look like pullets. The second collection is five shots of the ameraucana/ee that I think now might be a cockerel (with two of the shots showing him/her in comparison). Of course, I'm happy to be wrong on all of them...I've been wrong at least once today. Thanks again for your help!

First Collection....Pullets I think
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Second collection--all of same "mean" guy/girl that acts different from all the rest.
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The second group, the first one with the bright red comb is a cockerel. And yes, your birds aren't ameraucana, they are easter eggers.

 

[HudsonChix]

Thank you all so much! I appreciate all the help in identifying.

 

[ElizabethNDP]

View attachment 1811027 Would love some help identifying if these are cockerels or pullets. I'm guessing the one standing on the feeder is a Roo and the EE behind is a pullet. No clue on my Polish chicks. Thanks!!

 

[ElizabethNDP]

View attachment 1811027 Would love some help identifying if these are cockerels or pullets. I'm guessing the one standing on the feeder is a Roo and the EE behind is a pullet. No clue on my Polish chicks. Thanks!!

 

[cstephens1987]

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Agreed the one standing is definitely a Cockerel. Not really sure it's an Easter Egger though it doesn't exactly look like one

 

[ElizabethNDP]

Agreed the one standing is definitely a Cockerel. Not really sure it's an Easter Egger though it doesn't exactly look like one

Thank you. It was sold as a "Sage Egger".