Do I Have A Roo Here? LOOK at These Baby Beaks!

[Phoebus]

My darling niece brought me six little Easter Eggers from Rural King, all supposedly pullets, but look at these beak pictures. This is Music, Little Wing and Woodstock. They look pretty much the same to me except the last one, LoRain. 'Rain has a little, three-point crown at the top of his/her beak and is just a tiny smidgen bigger than the rest, too! Could 'Rain be a roo? ...probably a little over 2 weeks old now. I can hardly wait to see if he/she starts crowing!

 

[azygous]

It's too soon, even using my early gender clue kit. The incipient combs do have significance, but this early, it would be hue not shape that presents the gender clue. EEs are a happy combo of different breeds, so they can have physical features they deviate from the average EE "look". For example, I have an EE hen that has zero facial fuzz.

Keep an eye on comb color, though. At around age three to four weeks, the boys are getting yellow trending combs while the girls keep their pale pink color. By five weeks, the combs on the boys will be noticeably more yellow-orange, and the girls will still have pale pink combs, if you can even see them. By age six weeks, you will know for sure you have cockerels because those combs will be growing and they will be red, and tiny little red wattles under the chin for good measure.