CCL mixed easter egger

[Echelontheory101]

Hi all,

I ordered a cream legbar and was sent this Easter egger (I've already gotten my money back). Because I initially thought she was a CCL she was the only one i was positive was a pullet since her coloring was so dark compared to what male CCL look like so I didn't ask or show pics of her in my last post asking for guesses on the rest of the flock. Now that I have an Easter egger and not an autosexing CCL curious if we think pullet or cockerel.

I still thing pullet shes 11 weeks old and her comb is still very light, and her tail feathers are very blunt and rounded but am not experienced enough to know for sure.

Also not related to the CCL this is one of the raw images I took to clean up for one of the winter farm contests of my exchequer leghorn, do those super upright tail feathers have any significance for sex? Thinking still pullet since comb is yellow and the feathers arent floppy but just trying to learn what to look for across breeds when I start incubating so I dont have to keep them in grow out pens more than 12ish weeks before knowing who's staying and who's going

 

[Winderdear]

The EE has female specific coloring, so she’s certainly a pullet.

The Leghorn looks like a pullet to me based on lack of comb and wattle development. The tail feathers do not look like male specific feathering. Mediterranean breeds like Leghorns often have a high somewhat fan-shaped tail. Both birds are very pretty!

 

[Echelontheory101]

The EE has female specific coloring, so she’s certainly a pullet.

The Leghorn looks like a pullet to me based on lack of comb and wattle development. The tail feathers do not look like male specific feathering. Mediterranean breeds like Leghorns often have a high somewhat fan-shaped tail. Both birds are very pretty!

Awesome thank you so much. I'm trying to learn more about visual sexing. The combs and wattles, and colors of those things makes a lot of sense to me but I'm still pretty lost on the feathers part because I know feather sexing isn't consistent across all breeds just like you pointed out with Mediterranean breeds, and I'm trying to teach myself what to look for before I start hatching more next summer, so I'm not waiting past 12 weeks when obvious signs start to show up, before getting birds out of the grow out pen and either integrated, sold or processed. Also thank you they are both pretty cute haha!