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  1. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

  2. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

  3. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Every EE roo over Barred Rock hen I've hatched, the boys ended up with barred feathers (not a "at hatch" trait I could see but one that as he grew I could see). CG
  4. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I think pullet. Comb is still small and pink (not red) and more importantly, no reddish feathers on the shoulder/wing and an even feather pattern.
  5. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I think that is a boy. For 8 weeks old, the red around the eyes is too much for a pullet, even if she was excited or exercising (which might have increased the blood flow). CG
  6. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    The red feathers on the shoulders, and the patchiness of the colors, make me think cockerel. Comb comfirms. CG
  8. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I find my boys seem to feather in slowly,,,like they are trying to make me guess if they are going to have red shoulders or not. ( I even had one cockerel with a naked back and no tail he was so slow to grow feathers. I actually was worried that the other chicks were picking them but never...
  9. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    It's not 100% accurate - the feather growing thing. You have to know if the hen and rooster have the fast/slow feathering genes for it to be more accurate. However, with that being said, I use that plus other indicators to tell me "You might be a boy because I see a,b, and c." or "You might be...
  10. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I've got a chick or two beginning to feather with brown/black bars like this. Be interesting to see how they finish feathering out into. I was going to try selling them but it seems like no one is interested so I may see they grow up after all.
  12. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Sharkie's comb looked pretty red at 10 weeks and still looks like it's red at 15 weeks. I'm guessing roo. Sorry. :( CG
  13. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

  14. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I too added light in the morning only. You also have to be careful about adding lights that doesn't have any flicker to it. I recently read that chickens can see the the subtle flicker of light and it will bother them. I wish I knew where I read it so I could direct you to the article. I'm...
  15. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Besides the comb turning red, the skin around the eyes also gets red at point of lay. I use the red eyes more of my "any day now" indicator than the reddening of the comb.
  17. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I've got two that look like this. They came from a RIR hen, EE roo. At first I was hoping the abundance of red feathers was just from mom, but now at 5 weeks, the combs are beginning to redden up so now I think I've got two boys. I'm not saying that your chick is a boy because of the red...
  19. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I was fooled by an AustraWhite. It got a bigger and redder comb at about 3 months (I didn't write down exact date I made this realization) than the other AustraWhite. I kept waiting for the crowing. At about 5 months, when the same age pullets started laying, I butchered an older rooster and...
  20. CGinJCMO

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I thought the same thing...Groucho Marx CG
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