Can anyone tell if there hens or roosters?

[DigMyChicks]

this is the first of four I think are roosters.

 

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[junebuggena]

All your Easter Eggers are pullet colors. Those combs, while more developed than your average pullet, are not really red enough for 12 weeks old. They are more of a fleshy light pink than red. This is my EE cockerel at about the same age.

The male saddle feathers were just starting to show.

 

[DigMyChicks]

Hi junebuggena! Did you see the last 4 picture I posted? Two of the new pics were 2 of the chicks I posted yesterday...

 

[junebuggena]

Pullet only coloring

Pullet only coloring


Not a trace of male saddle feathers, pullet



No dark red rooster shoulder patches, pullet


Tiny comb and no male saddle feathers, pullet
Pullet only coloring


Pullet only coloring


In spite of the comb being a bit big, that's pullet only coloring.

Pullet only coloring.

 

[DigMyChicks]

So you're thinking they are still all hens? Three of the chickens in the pictures you wrote on have the 3 row comb although it is not very big. You can see the combs much better in the 4 pictures I posted today. Thanks for your help

 

[junebuggena]

They are over 12 weeks old. It's normal for a pullet to start to grow a bit more in the comb in the next few weeks. The combs aren't really bright red yet. That plus the coloring, plus an absence of male saddle feathers is what makes me think they are all pullets. Pullets will sometime have a three row comb, but if it doesn't get big and red by 10 weeks old, it's for sure a pullet. A cockerel on the other hand, will always have three rows if it has a pea comb and it will be big and obvious by 10 weeks. Most of the time cockerels will have dark red shoulder patches as well, especially if it is a gold toned bird. Your birds are lacking in that cockerel trait as well.

 

[Michael OShay]

So you're thinking they are still all hens? Three of the chickens in the pictures you wrote on have the 3 row comb although it is not very big. You can see the combs much better in the 4 pictures I posted today. Thanks for your help

I don't see three rows of peas in any of the combs in the pics you posted. They all appear to be single rows of peas; all pullets.