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  1. Finnie

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

    He’s sure pretty!
  2. Finnie

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

    And, this is a cockerel. Not just because of the comb and the red patches on the shoulders, but because he has dramatic flashy coloring and patterning coming in. Pullet coloring and patterning is usually more even and uniform.
  3. Finnie

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

    This thread is still active and is a perfectly good place to post these questions.
  4. Finnie

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

    I think all three of yours are boys. The third one is a little bit harder to tell so maybe not. Yes your second one is definitely a cockerel.
  5. Finnie

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

    I’ve had several Easter Egger cockerels not show themselves until 13-14 weeks. But in this case, the 8 week old black one with the red shoulder patches is definitely a cockerel.
  6. Finnie

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

    Gosh, I’m sorry nobody has responded to this. Can you get any pictures of this chick standing on its own instead of in your hand? What I would be looking for is a side shot that shows how it stands, and what color(s) are on its sides, wings and shoulders. Maybe now that it’s two weeks older, it...
  7. Finnie

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

    It kind of does. Not all male chicks start out looking like this one, but no matter the breed, if I see a chick with this obvious of bald shoulders, I consider it a male. So usually, pullets‘ wings will feather in pretty evenly and males’ wings will have long feathers on the ends while their...
  8. Finnie

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

    🤦‍♀️
  9. Finnie

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

    I have noticed at my two TSCs, ever since they did away with the new tower brooders and went back to stock tanks, they only put a few tanks out, and they are combining several breeds together. Sometimes they are careful to combine only breeds that can be told apart, but other times they don’t...
  10. Finnie

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

    This is interesting because their combs and wattles LOOK like cockerels, but their feathering and coloring look like pullets to me. I’m wondering if they might be older than you think, at an age where pullets start to get red combs. (But gosh, I think they are too small for that.) When you got...
  11. Finnie

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

    @chirpyderp when Wishing4Wings said they mislabeled the bin, she didn’t mean they wrote EE instead of “Americana” or vice versa. She meant the employees got their breeds mixed up and put the EEs in the bin for some other breed and that breed in the EE bin. Since you got a reddish chicken that...
  12. Finnie

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

    This is an awesome tutorial with photos! Thank you for digging up the old posts and bringing them forward. I think if we could quote this post every once in a while, it will really help people who are searching. I’m going to bookmark this page in my chicken genetics folder so I can always find it.
  13. Finnie

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

    Good idea. I did lose a rooster, but not that one. So I still have to deal with him. Unless maybe the lost rooster was the reason he wouldn’t go in the coop in the first place. Maybe he will go in better now. The total loss is two. The Easter Egger and one cockerel. There was a third bird, a...
  14. Finnie

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

    I am so SO mad at myself! :hit We will never know for sure on this one now, although lately I’ve been pretty confident that you guys were right about her being a pullet. I forgot to close the coop door for this group last night!:barnie:he:smack This coop has one straggler cockerel who doesn’t...
  15. Finnie

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

    No, no necropsy, no predators. Sometimes these things just happen. Thank you.
  16. Finnie

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

    Thanks. I don’t know what happened. I just opened the coop door one morning and there she was dead.
  17. Finnie

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

    I thought the same thing when I saw your post and that gave me hope that mine is a pullet, too! I miss my pretty one. These photos were taken shortly before she died:
  18. Finnie

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

    Thank you, Bruce. I think I’m learning my lesson not to pick the “unique” looking chicks from the pullet bin. My thought was that since it was safe to assume they were pullets, I wanted to pick interesting ones. But when it seemed like I had managed to get 3 out of 4 cockerels, first I blamed...
  19. Finnie

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

    Thank you. That is what keeps me going back and forth. By this age, I would expect a male to be more obvious, with a bigger redder comb. This one pinked up pretty early on, which is why I started worrying it might not be a pullet. But it only got to a certain level of pink and no more. I’ll just...
  20. Finnie

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

    Compared to my difficult ones, I think yours is a pullet.
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