2 EE genders? Quite sure Buff Cochin and Cuckoo Marans are pullets.

[EmeraldSkye]

All 4 are pullets

I'm beginning to believe this! Last night I spent a lot of time reading through gender threads, focusing on the EEs. I leaned that the roos will have a triple pea comb while pullets will have a single. Also I learned that roos will have red on their shoulders. My two EEs both have single combs and there aren't patches of red at the shoulders. I just came in from looking at them closely. Later I'll try to get some good pics for the final confirmation.

 

[donrae]

Emerald--all your birds are female.

Just an fyi--if those ee pullets do have straight combs, that does cut down the chances of them laying blue or green eggs. Just to keep in mind when they start laying, you might get cream/tan/pinkish/brown eggs from them.

 

[EmeraldSkye]

First of all, I want to thank all of you for your replies. I posted pictures on another chicken forum a few days ago and only got one response... and that person told me that the two EEs were male. After seeing all of the responses here I knew I'd get some help.

Here are a few pics from today:


Lucille from above


Lucille head-on


Lucille from the side


Lucille head-on again.


Squirrel head-on and above


Squirrel side


Squirrel head-on


Squirrel from above


Side of Lucille


Side of Squirrel


Lucille twice!!

As a reminder, these are 12 weeks old now. Maybe you can comment more on the straight comb thing? Do these have straight combs? Squirrel's looks a little crooked but I don't know if that's what you mean.

 

[hope4rainbow]

The only one that *if they were mine* I'd be worried about is Squirrel but that's because I'm paranoid, lol. The rest are for sure chicks! Errr...female I'm only saying the rest instead of all because of looking at them as if is look at mine.

 

[donrae]

They do both look to have straight combs. It's not 100%, but the blue egg gene and the pea comb gene are closely linked, so they have a lesser chance of laying colored eggs. Not a zero chance, though, so keep hoping!

 

[EmeraldSkye]

The only one that *if they were mine* I'd be worried about is Squirrel but that's because I'm paranoid, lol. The rest are for sure chicks! Errr...female

I'm only saying the rest instead of all because of looking at them as if is look at mine.

Well, I have to say that if one of them turned out to be male, then it's Squirrel that I would choose. So I guess I can be thankful that my favorite three appear to be female. I'd hate to lose any but if Squirrel has to go then that would be the best choice for me. Lucille is the friendliest, followed by Bella. Wild Thing and Squirrel are equal after that, so if one has to go, my choice would be an EE (since I have two of them) but not Lucille. Though I'd feel sorry for Wild Thing because Lucille and Bella are buddies and Wild Thing and Squirrel hang out together. They have all paired off. That said, as an aside, they all get along so well that I cannot tell their pecking order. I see no dominance between any of them. They are all very easy going towards each other. None of them have ever been aggressive; they've all been very well behaved.

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

100% all girls! and they are Beautiful

and yes, Squirrel has a single but Lucille looks like she has a pea comb.

The single comb does lessen your chances for a colored egg greatly, my straight combed EEmix girls haven't started laying yet but I'm hoping for brown eggs (some customers whine about colored ones).

I do have an EE pullet with white-ish earlobes so I'll have to impatiently wait to see what color she is going to lay.

 

[EmeraldSkye]

Thank you for your replies!! The girls will be happy to hear that they don't have to find new homes, lose their friends, or lose their heads.

 

[EmeraldSkye]

Well, I can 100% for sure say that they are all female (two started laying eggs last week and the other two this week) and I can also 100% say for sure that both Easter Eggers are laying green eggs since I got two green eggs today.

Here are the eggs that I have collected for the last 6 days or so: