12 week old EE's... come on, ya know you want to try and guess!

[MommaBee]

12 weeks. We have quite a few this age. It is pretty hard for us to tell the black EE's apart. But maybe you can take a stab at it.


The Olive Egger...



#1 and #2- look identical to me




This one has a yellow tip on its beak. The only way we can tell it apart.





Please let me know if I need to take more pics. We really need to figure out who is who soon and find all but one boy a home. We had our first cockadoodle do this morning from our RIR that is the same age.

 

[Habibs Hens]

they all look like roos to me

 

[MommaBee]

they all look like roos to me

Can you tell me why. I would really like to know what to look for. We have a couple more I didn't post pics of.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

they all look like roos to me

I agree, they all have very large combs. And the olive egger has a ton of red in his back and shoulder area.

 

[Habibs Hens]

the first thing you said was age

so for that age the combs are just way tooo RED to be pullets

pullets combs are pink right up to 16-18 weeks and only go RED when they are about a week before lay which is about 18-20 weeks old

i breed EEs and can sex them easily and any pea comb

body shape and colour has nothing to do with it

my EEs are all white


here is a video i made

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

the first thing you said was age

so for that age the combs are just way tooo RED to be pullets

pullets combs are pink right up to 16-18 weeks and only go RED when they are about a week before lay which is about 18-20 weeks old

i breed EEs and can sex them easily and any pea comb

body shape and colour has nothing to do with it

my EEs are all white


here is a video i made

Well most of my EEs I can sex by color and or their combs. I usually have quite a few EEs with the traditional EE hen chipmunk pattern and any EE I have had with patchy red coloring has turned out to be a cockerel.

 

[MommaBee]

the first thing you said was age

so for that age the combs are just way tooo RED to be pullets

pullets combs are pink right up to 16-18 weeks and only go RED when they are about a week before lay which is about 18-20 weeks old

i breed EEs and can sex them easily and any pea comb

body shape and colour has nothing to do with it

my EEs are all white


here is a video i made

PERFECT!!! Thank you! Loved the video! I had a feeling they were all boys. It was hard because I didn't really have a girl to compare them to. Not one I saw when I was just out there anyway.

I really appreciate the help and now know what to look for!

 

[Habibs Hens]

PERFECT!!! Thank you! Loved the video! I had a feeling they were all boys. It was hard because I didn't really have a girl to compare them to. Not one I saw when I was just out there anyway.

I really appreciate the help and now know what to look for!

your welcome glad i could help

 

[MommaBee]

your welcome glad i could help

Oh and I just went back out to check. One has a gray almost black pea comb, very flat still. Safe to assume that one is a girl? If so I only got one girl and 4 boys, haha, just my luck!

 

[Habibs Hens]

Oh and I just went back out to check. One has a gray almost black pea comb, very flat still. Safe to assume that one is a girl? If so I only got one girl and 4 boys, haha, just my luck!

you have a pic as some of my chicks have a black comb and i was able to sex them too