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Maybe 2 or 3 pullets. Third from the left might be pullet. The silver one in the middle might be a pullet. The red, second from the right, might be a pullet. Everyone else is definitely male.

Both are Easter Eggers. And both are boys.

For Easter Eggers, there are few things to watch for. In regards to the comb, more important than the number of rows is the amount of development. Cockerels will have more prominent combs early on, and they will start to pink up some time after 4 weeks old. Chick #2 is still a bit young for a...

I have 6 week old pullets that I have to squint to see their combs. The boys are all very well developed and turning red.

Like I said in an earlier post, they all three have a whole lot of comb development for chicks that are still feathering in. It's not the number of rows I'm looking at. It's the overall size. Too much, too soon for pullets.

That 1 row versus 3 rows thing isn't really true. There are plenty of girls with three row combs. And there are occasionally cockerels with only one row. My last hatch of Easter Eggers, all 5 of the girls had 3 three row combs, as did the boys.

That's a lot of comb development on chicks that aren't even feathered in yet. I'm guessing they are all boys.