Anyone Wanna Guess These EEs?

[Menmyrc]

These EEs are between 6-7 weeks old.

#1

#2 I think may be a pullet - "she" has virtually no comb:

#3 This one's tail feathers seem to have a bit of "curl"

#4

#5 This one has the "curled" tail feathers also. The face feathers grew in buff colored, but now black is growing in:

#6

Thanks for your "educated guesses" !!

 

[eenie114]

I think one and five are roosters.... maybe....

 

[PotterWatch]

All pullets.

 

[Illia]

All pullets. EE roos also don't come in these colors. (or, that color. . . They're all the same )

 

[FrenchToast]

Quote:
Wow, that is interesting. What do you mean the Roo's don't come in those colors? Just when you think you know all there is to EEr's you learn something else !!! LOL

I was going to say 5 and maybe 1 & 6 were Roo's but now i'm confused. Thanks

 

[ChurpyChicken]

What beautiful birds you got there look like hawks! Not very good at guess the sex I thought I had a hen for a year until it started crowing lol

 

[Illia]

A common color of Easter Egger is a sort of Black Breasted Red / Golden Duckwing type color. . . I really don't know how to classify it, whatever it is - It is crossed anyway and not true to color, but either way - Of all Easter Eggers I've ever seen or known, the hens of this colortype always start out like this and then finish off to look a lot like my own EE hen. The roosters will have a lot more of a red look to them, and won't look sort of like a Golden Campine. Instead, they'll get black chests, very red or golden hackles/saddle, and more "pencilling" near the neck. Some even have a lot of white on them.

It is a little hard to describe without pics of each variance, as with them being Easter Eggers each one can be just a little different - But the rule is that in this color, the hens always look like yours.

 

[laura tiedemann]

I ordered two female EE's from MPC and one looks just these but the other one is basically white with "butterscotch" feathering around her head and neck. Her comb is a little bigger than the brown one and it is also pinker. She is also bigger than the brown one. I'll try and post pics when I get home.

 

[Menmyrc]

llia - thanks for the lesson in EE colors! I guess that's why I've never been able to find anything distinctively different between them that screams roo or pullet! They are all tempered about the same and are all fairly low in the pecking order among the other chicks.

It's funny how they all now look the same - of the 6 there were 3 distinct color differences - #2 and #6 were almost completely black with dark brown heads, 3 of them (I can't tell them apart now) were a light taupe color with rust/black/white chipmunk stripes. One had a very even patch on the head like a welsummer or something, one had more of just a black pencil line up the head, and one had more rust speckles on the head. The other one was a rust color with rust and black on the head. We tried to choose by leg size and the way they carried their bodies in hopes of getting a pullet or two, but just in case we got some with bright green legs, some with dark green, almost slate, legs, and that's also why we tried to pick a couple different colors. I guess we did a good job at guessing!

 

[ChickenWisperer]

All pullets. Illia is right......those are the prime example of the most common EE hen coloring - most look just like one of my EE hens. Plus, they've got that adorable "sweetie pie" face that I notice almost all EE hens seem to have. Males are usually the color she described, or a silver (white/black) color.