junebuggena
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It helps if the chick is mostly feathered in. You can post some pics and we can try and help you out.
Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*
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So I have 2 EE's that were not wanted after the Easter craze and they started flying out of the tub. I know the smaller dark one is a pulley, but the chipmunk colored one is getting feisty with thicker legs and a bigger comb. Does s/he look rooish to anyone else or am I being paranoid? I'm not sure on age since I didn't get them as babies.ive had them for a couple weeks and thought they both looked like 2 sure pullets at first!
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So I have 2 EE's that were not wanted after the Easter craze and they started flying out of the tub. I know the smaller dark one is a pulley, but the chipmunk colored one is getting feisty with thicker legs and a bigger comb. Does s/he look rooish to anyone else or am I being paranoid? I'm not sure on age since I didn't get them as babies.ive had them for a couple weeks and thought they both looked like 2 sure pullets at first!
junebuggena
Crowing
Natural lighting please. Artificial lights and camera flashes tend to distort coloring.sorry for multiple posts I am having trouble uploading from my phone.
I love Lucy - I hope she is a girl!
Here are mine - I posted photos of them a few weeks ago. Now they are about 6.5 weeks (7 wks on Sunday). I took their last studio shots yesterday and moved them to their apartment in the coop.
The daddy is a clean-faced, white sport of halo's wheaten ameracaunas and the mommas are either Ideal EEs or halos olive eggers. (I had one blue and one black hen that were a blue rock X EE. I assume the splash, blue, and mostly black chicks were from them.)
Sadly, I think both of these are boys:
I think this pretty blue one is a boy, too. (The brown barred one is a GCM X Wellie.)
At last, I think I have a pullet. I'm pretty sure the one on the left is a girl, on the right, a boy.
I think I have a pullet here, too, on the right. I'm guessing the one on the left is a boy.
I had thought at first that both of these black ones were girls, because their tails grew long quickly, but now I think they are a girl (left) and a boy (right).
And last - I think one of these was hatched from a blue egg. (I also had some brown eggs in the incubator that were black rock chicks.) I think it is the one on the left, and I think that it's a pullet.
So of the 10 EE eggs that hatched, I'm afraid only 4 are pullets. I am trying to be conservative in my guessing. Would love to hear other opinions, though. I am basing my opinion mostly on the combs pinking up, but if there are other features I should be noticing here that a tell-tale signs of male vs female, please let me know. Also, I have many other photos if anyone would like another view. Thanks!
I think you are right on them all and wanted to respond to your question about other indicators. One thing that I saw in a few of your roo's was the tell tale darker red shoulder patches. These can give the roo's pattern a patchy look. I know that pullets have an even pattern all over so that makes some of your girls more obvious too since even girls can have that red coloring.
junebuggena
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In case you didn't notice, that post is pretty darn old.
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