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- Apr 14, 2009
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Hi everyone! I'll try to get some pictures up later today or tomorrow - there's been a lot going on lately and I didn't get to my Tuesday Sneaky Update unfortunately! No, no crowing yet. Her tail is filling out - looks more hennish, but still not decisively one way or another. But there are NO saddle feathers that I can see, and no red at all (maybe a little bit of more brownish coloring on her shoulders, but not red). Comb hasn't gotten bigger. Body shape still is a bit confusing to me (not as filled out as some of the other girls), but Fred (my BO cockerel) has definitely surpassed her in rooster-body-shape and strutting.
So perhaps Sneaky is a girl after all??? I'll let you see what you think when I get the pictures up. Stay tuned!
Thanks everyone for all your help and the pictures! I have one other EE who is also black and white and has cockerel coloring (but NO red in plumage and comb is flat and pale) that maybe I'll have to include a picture of. If Sneaky is a girl, then maybe Sprinkles (my other EE) is the mutant.
She's got a mostly white body with black in the tail and head. Although, I think most of her down is dark, even under the white, so maybe that's not true boy-coloring? I'm pretty positive she's a girl, because she's 13.5 weeks old and her comb hasn't developed at all. But I think that it's funny that her coloring is what I would expect a cockerel to have. I'll snap a picture for you guys when I'm out photographing our friend Sneaky!
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