8 week EE mix gender guess

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

This is Lexington. Her mom is an Easter Egger and dad is a Barnyard mix with a straight comb. She hatched 4/19, making her about 7 weeks.

I’m leaning pullet, but am suspicious.

Pics from today 6/4:

I’ve been burned so many times. Tell me my suspicions are unwarranted.

She was the first hatch of the group (usually male). She was blonde at hatch (usually male with my mixes). She’s always been friendly and outgoing (often male). Her full brother was a sneaky late developing cockerel (is she sneaky too?).

Is there any sex-linked comb genes? Hers is straight. Her older sister’s comb was straight. Her brothers’ combs have been pea-like. Mom’s comb is pea, dad is straight.

Unrelated to gender… is Lexington abnormally short? She’s built much like a quail or ground-dwelling bird (think woodcock minus the beak). Am I just seeing things?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Pullet. That other one in the background with the big red comb is male though

 

[JedJackson]

I vote pullet, too.

 

[SilverBirds]

Pullet.

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Pullet. That other one in the background with the big red comb is male though

Haha, yes. That cockerel is MJ. He has not attempted to hide his maleness, lol!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Haha, yes. That cockerel is MJ. He has not attempted to hide his maleness, lol!

Oh wow lol

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

It must sound like I want this chick to be a boy, but I assure you, I want a girl!

But why the redness in the comb only 1 day later…?

Please continue reassuring me that Lex is a girl.

Something that is in my favor… while she has some reddish shades on her chest, I don’t see any red or gold shoulder leakage yet.

It’s hard for me to trust because her brother tricked me for so long. Makes me think she’s up to the same tactics…

I realize I forgot to include it in my original post, but the first series of photos were take 6/1. The next set 6/4 and these pics today, 6/5. There seems to be a lot of reddish development in the comb over a short span of time…

 

[GlicksChicks]

Her legs are much skinnier than the cockerel next to her in the original pictures, which is a good sign of pullet.

Her comb is reddening much like my Golden Sexlink hens, who are guaranteed females.

She also does not have the very defined neck colors that roosters tend to get, like her brother does. She has more hen colorations, with more designs on her body than her male counterpart.

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Here are some pics of Lexington, taken in September. She ending up laying pretty blue-green eggs. Ya'll were right