An easter egger has me confused.

[Ninakay]

I have two easter eggers and one is confusing to me. This one is 6-7 weeks old. Some of these are taken under a heat lamp red hue, my apologies...this EE is shy and was hard to get a picture of. Does this one look like it could be a roo? I have two of them but they look completely different from eachother and its hard to compare. Thank you in advance and I will post end results when it crows or lays.

 

[NatJ]

At 6-7 weeks old, with a comb that small and pale, I think it is probably a female.

 

[Ninakay]

At 6-7 weeks old, with a comb that small and pale, I think it is probably a female.

Thank you. This EE is so pretty, but different than any I can find on the web. The other EE I have has no comb so far, this one had me nervous.

 

[NatJ]

Thank you. This EE is so pretty, but different than any I can find on the web. The other EE I have has no comb so far, this one had me nervous.

At a guess, the other EE probably has a pea comb. The one in these photos has a single comb, which stands up and is more obvious.

I have never yet seen a chicken of any age that had NO comb. But I certainly have seen ones with tiny combs that were pale in color and hard to find.

 

[Ninakay]

At a guess, the other EE probably has a pea comb. The one in these photos has a single comb, which stands up and is more obvious.

I have never yet seen a chicken of any age that had NO comb. But I certainly have seen ones with tiny combs that were pale in color and hard to find.

Thank you, I am new to raising chicks. The only chickens I have owned were mature before I took them on. Here is a pic of the other EE.

 

[NatJ]

Thank you, I am new to raising chicks. The only chickens I have owned were mature before I took them on. Here is a pic of the other EE.

Yes, that one looks like it has a pea comb.

Easter Eggers can have many different appearances, depending on what breeds have been mixed up in their ancestry-- which makes them fun, but hard to predict and hard to sex