6 week old EE — hen or roo?

[zenstarling]

Looking more like a sex link pullet than an EE.

doesn’t look like an EE at ALL to me!! she was an all yellow day old which I thought was odd! but you’re thinking pullet at least?

 

[zenstarling]

Hmmm idk lol

I go back and forth daily

 

[ShrekDawg]

I go back and forth daily

Yeah if it’s not a sex link female then idk lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

doesn’t look like an EE at ALL to me!! she was an all yellow day old which I thought was odd! but you’re thinking pullet at least?

Yes

 

[olivigus]

Behavior can also be a clue. Her overall posture seems more pullet than roo to me. The few times I've gotten a rooster with chicks, they tended to stand more upright than the others and did a little more posturing when interacting. My EEs have all had fluffy cheeks from day one, so that's another indication she may well be something else. Pretty bird though no matter what she is. Keep us posted if you suddenly find her crowing one morning!

 

[labelo]

Yeah, I also don't think it's an Easter Egger. Without fully reading, I assumed this was a red sex link or ISA brown--color, single comb, yellow shanks aren't a slam dunk but point that way.

If it is a sex link, it's probably a female--males are much lighter in color. Do you have pictures of it as a chick?

 

[emyancey]

I have an EE I am debating on as well. She (?) was an all yellow chick from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries and they call them Americanas. All four the EEs I got have single combs. The all yellow one at ten weeks is now white and red. Also all of my EEs have green legs; not yellow.

 

[labelo]

I have an EE I am debating on as well. She (?) was an all yellow chick from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries and they call them Americanas. All four the EEs I got have single combs. The all yellow one at ten weeks is now white and red. Also all of my EEs have green legs; not yellow.

Ok, this actually makes more sense. Looking at Mt. Healthy Hatcheries it looks they don't make any guarantees on egg color (the photos even show light brown) or parentage of their "Americanas"/EEs. Often EEs are F1 crosses between blue and brown egg layers to guarantee the green egg color that customers associate with EEs, but there's no standards.
So I suspect that their "Americana"/easter egger mix is various mixes/hybrids, both more traditional F1 green/blue easter-egger layers that come from Ameraucana or Legbar mixes, and and multigenerational mixes that can throw browns. They might even be throwing some of their extra brown-laying sex-linked hybrids (like their ISA Browns/Golden Comets) in their EE mixes to give a broader variety of colors.

All that to say, my gut says she's a sex-linked hybrid of some sort, with the chance that she's a multigeneration Easter Egger who's heavier on the RIR genes.

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To the new poster, green legs are a good indication--though not a guarantee--that you have an EE (I'm not as familiar with shank genetics, but I think it's the slate shank from an Ameraucana + yellow from whatever it's mixed with.)
Pea combs are common in EEs (inherited from Ameraucana lineages), but not required--blue egg genes can also come from Legbars, which have single combs, or from an Ameraucana cross, which could carry the recessive single comb. Those multigenerational crosses have higher likelihoods of brown eggs.

 

[zenstarling]

Ok, this actually makes more sense. Looking at Mt. Healthy Hatcheries it looks they don't make any guarantees on egg color (the photos even show light brown) or parentage of their "Americanas"/EEs. Often EEs are F1 crosses between blue and brown egg layers to guarantee the green egg color that customers associate with EEs, but there's no standards.
So I suspect that their "Americana"/easter egger mix is various mixes/hybrids, both more traditional F1 green/blue easter-egger layers that come from Ameraucana or Legbar mixes, and and multigenerational mixes that can throw browns. They might even be throwing some of their extra brown-laying sex-linked hybrids (like their ISA Browns/Golden Comets) in their EE mixes to give a broader variety of colors.

All that to say, my gut says she's a sex-linked hybrid of some sort, with the chance that she's a multigeneration Easter Egger who's heavier on the RIR genes.

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To the new poster, green legs are a good indication--though not a guarantee--that you have an EE (I'm not as familiar with shank genetics, but I think it's the slate shank from an Ameraucana + yellow from whatever it's mixed with.)
Pea combs are common in EEs (inherited from Ameraucana lineages), but not required--blue egg genes can also come from Legbars, which have single combs, or from an Ameraucana cross, which could carry the recessive single comb. Those multigenerational crosses have higher likelihoods of brown eggs.

yeah this one is also from Mt Healthy, an all yellow day old chick, in a bin with other multicolored EEs! their genetics are so fascinating. guess we have to wait and see on this one! thanks for your thoughts!

 

[FrostRanger]

I'm thinking she's an easter egger but a legbar based one. I got 2 last year that could pass as red sex-links but both laid green eggs. Mine were from tractor supply which uses hoover. I suspect that they did some kind of cream legbar rhode island red mix