Breed and gender?

[Thenewman3]

 

[Thenewman3]

I know this one's a barred rock, but gender?

 

[junebuggena]

First is an Easter Egger cockerel. Second is a barred rock pullet.

 

[Thenewman3]

And this one...

 

[Thenewman3]

First is an Easter Egger cockerel. Second is a barred rock pullet.

thanks! I was thinking cockerel. Are EE and ameraucana the same?

 

[junebuggena]

Easter eggers are technically, any bird that produces a blue or green egg that does not meet the breed standard for Araucana or Ameraucana. They usually have Ameraucana somewhere in the genetics, but hatcheries have used production breeds to increase the laying rate. If you use him with your barred girl, and if he carries the blue egg gene, you would get sexlinked green egg layers.

And this one...

This one looks like an Australorp girl.

 

[Thenewman3]

And one more...this one is the biggest...and is hard to take pics of... We were told it's a black sexlink.

 

[junebuggena]

Yes, that is a black sexlink pullet.

 

[BantamLover21]

1st bird: Easter Egger cockerel
2nd bird: Barred Rock, probably a cockerel.
3rd bird: Black Australorp pullet
4th bird: If it has red on its chest, then it is a Black Sex-link pullet.

 

[Thenewman3]

1st bird: Easter Egger cockerel
2nd bird: Barred Rock, probably a cockerel.
3rd bird: Black Australorp pullet
4th bird: If it has red on its chest, then it is a Black Sex-link pullet.

you think the barred is a cockerel? How do you tell the difference?