9 week old EE chicks

[pdsavage]

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Try googling pictures of Australorp hens. Their feathers are greenish purplish in the sun and all pretty, but they're still hens!

Hmm...they must have some Australorp in them then!

Cool! Thanks everyone!!

Prouybly not,she was just saying boys are not the only one with shiny green feathers and used Australorp as an example.

 

[smarsh]

very uniform color pattern for a flock of EEs. Where did you get them? very nice

 

[JodyJo]

your girls look like mine...mine are 10 weeks old tomorrow...

I vote GIRLS!! Relax!

As far as the green sheen you were talking about...many of my pullets have the sheen...doesn't mean roo

 

[The Turken Lady]

They are all pullets.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Hmm...they must have some Australorp in them then!

Cool! Thanks everyone!!

Prouybly not,she was just saying boys are not the only one with shiny green feathers and used Australorp as an example.

Yes, this is what I meant.

 

[bloom_ss]

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Thank you! I got them from Northwest Seed and Pet here in town. They had a bunch of them that hatched on June 15th and I got them as one week old sexed pullets. They told me they only have a 95% rate of success with sexing them as day olds though so if I ended up with any roos they could refund me for them. I'm glad I won't have to take them up on that offer.

 

[debid]

I think the confusion comes from people making statements about a rooster having a shinier tail/hackle/sickle feathers. Until you've seen two birds of the same breed side-by-side and only one is a cockerel, it's hard to know how shiny exactly "shinier" might be.

And yes, a number of my pullets have iridescence on them. As I understand it, any bird with black feathering can have it -- the comparison between pullet and cockerel is a matter of degree rather than presence.

 

[Arookar]

I think they are all girls! I think the greenish tinge to the black feathers is just natural for any black colors- the roos will be more solid colored on the body

 

[sdeneen2001]

All girls - I love the picture where you have some little hands helping you hold her down for her picture.