Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

[Cowgirl71]

Maybe EE crosses aren't sexable by color? I don't know...

 

[sevenbabychicks]

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I also have a blue EE that looks like yours and is around the same age - they both seem to have a weird pea/single comb hybrid. Mine's also gotten pretty tall and pink for a pea-combed breed of 2-3 months, but I've seen single combed pullets of the same age with big pink combs. I've been posting pics of mine on BYC and have gotten mixed "reviews"

EEs alone are so confusing to sex, but when they have these weirdo combs it's even more

! Keep us updated please!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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DON'T SELL THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE PULLET!!!

Yes, she has red on the shoulders, but it's not really red, closer to salmon (which=pullet), and it's on her lower wing, not on her shoulder (if it's on the shoulder, then it's a rooster). It's also a very small patch. One of my pullets on page 5 ("Pearl") has some salmon on her wing too.

But anyway, 1st and 2nd pics are pullets. 3rd pic looks kinda rooish. Can you get a better profile pic?

I will later today. I still think the blue one looks rooish, but I think it's because my picture doesn't show the comb very well. It's definitely pretty pink for eight weeks old, pinker than my 15+ week old olive eggers.

We shall see. I was thinking of keeping it even if it IS a roo, since I love his daddy - daddy is a very good and nice roo.

See? By the 'rules' of sexing EE's/pea combed birds, we have a good middle row coming in pink there. I still think it will end up a roo.

But I may keep it even if it is, unless someone near me needs a pretty roo. My roo makes interesting colored babies. Also got a pic of bird #3 who looks pullety for now I think. Of course, this is an EE X straight combed bird, so there may be some waffle room there. Right? LOL.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/51848_p1010813.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/51848_p1010817.jpg

other EE:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/51848_p1010815.jpg

You can't sex EEs by the 3 row pea comb rule -- I have had a few female EEs with that comb - it's the size and color you need to look at, not the number of rows.

This pullet is only 7 weeks old here:

Her 3 row comb is more obvious in this pic - a few weeks before she started laying:

 

[debid]

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Thank you for this. When I first started worrying about one of mine, I came across this "3 row rule" and I wasn't sure what to make of it. The bird I was worried about had a single row but it was well-defined peas, pinking up early, and the chick had dark red splotches coming in on its back. I'm almost 100% sure he's a cockerel; his comb has reddened now and shows the other two rows but you really have to look. OTOH, I have a chick that is colored "pullet" and has a yellow, flat comb that happens to be wide and is showing three rows of almost microscopic peas. She's 5 weeks and these specks of peas are smaller than the cockerel's peas were at one week of age. Pretty sure she's a pullet that will have a comb like your photos show.

So, in my experience so far, comb width is not a reliable indicator at all.

 

[stormylady]

Andi

as a young girl, and here again as an adult hen.

 

[torrelee]

Help! I picked up a six week old americauna pullet yesterday and all this talk of black and whites being boys is kind of worrying me... She looks like a girl to me, but I'm pretty new to chickens. Please tell me my girl is really a girl??

 

[stormylady]

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Andi is totally black and white and she is a girl about 3 years old and lays a huge blue egg.

 

[torrelee]

Thats good, the pics are kind of confusing, all similarly colored but some being darker than others. Mine seems about 50/50... but I love her "eyeliner"

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Pullet.

 

[somadlyinlove]

I'm loving this thread! I have a fresh batch of EE crosses 14 days old today, anyone care to guess on this baby?

I'm guessing girl her name so far is Alice