22 Week Old EEs - Gender?

[NorthernHomestead]

Playing backyard paparazzi with chickens isn't easy. Sorry if these aren't the clearest.

I have more of these buggers, but...when I can I'll get pictures for opinions on gender. I only know one, for certain, is male.

 

[Jener8or]

I don't see any obvious males. At 22 weeks, they should be. What is making you think one is male? The top one is the most suspect, but I'm not seeing any male-specific saddle or hackle feathers on any of them.

 

[WingItRanch]

The first looks a little suspicious to me but hard to tell from the angle. Have you heard any crowing?

 

[NorthernHomestead]

I don't see any obvious males. At 22 weeks, they should be. What is making you think one is male? The top one is the most suspect, but I'm not seeing any male-specific saddle or hackle feathers on any of them.

I didn't take his picture. I call him Rusty. He's got a big comb, crows, and I've seen him on girls. He has long, rust-colored feathers on his saddle. I didn't even know that was another way to tell. I have a black and white one that doesn't have a comb quite as big, but it's bigger than the rest of them and he has longer saddle feathers. Probably a roo? If so are EEs like wild birds where the more sharply colored ones are male? That black and white one has sharply opposing colored feathers - no real big grey transition between.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

The first looks a little suspicious to me but hard to tell from the angle. Have you heard any crowing?

Only from the one I know is male.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

So I guess the white one's name is Tina. I was calling her Martin when she was younger. The beard gave her a striking resemblance to Martin VanBuren.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

Rusty - I know he's a roo.

But what about this guy?

Those long saddle feathers. Not as big of a comb as Rusty, but it's bigger than the girls.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

Hen?

Funny thing about her is that she's the exact damn same color scheme as a lot of my BO X EE BYM chickens. None of the rest of the gifted eggs have this color scheme. Part of me wondered if her beard was some sort of EE recessive gene that made its way front and center. (I know it's not likely at all.)

 

[Jener8or]

Rusty - I know he's a roo.
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But what about this guy?
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Those long saddle feathers. Not as big of a comb as Rusty, but it's bigger than the girls.

Yep, boy, boy.

Hen?
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girl

And the first 3, all girls then are my guesses.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

Thanks for all your input on this. I can probably figure out the ones I don't have pictures of now.

My neighbor gifted about a dozen eggs and told me to let her know if there weren't enough hens. Only two look like they're roos. Now just to wait on seeing eggs. I know the dark grey/black girls with black feet came from blue eggs...