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

[SmittenChicken]

Thanks for the help, aoxa and Simmonsfunnyfarm! I don't want to be too optimistic, but this one looks all girl to me so far. I'll continue to post pictures as s/he grows, fortunately this little one seems to like posing for the camera so far.

This is another picture from a week ago (day 10, to be exact) -- so it's much earlier than the last one I posted, but it shows the chipmunk stripe/wing detail a little better.

 

[Flowerbh]

Here are my new babies I got yesterday. I wanted all those fun colored eggs and my older EE only gave my a light pinkish egg and I wanted blues/greens.

My new Welsummer, named Summer, will give me those great terra cotta colored eggs. She is 2 weeks old.


My new EE, Emma, came out of a blue/green egg. I will keep my fingers crossed on egg color. She is 3 weeks old.


Ameraucana. My breeder friend ordered Wheaten eggs, but we think she got Silver??? not sure, but her name is Amy and she is 1 week old.


This is 1 week old, Sky. She is another Ameraucana. Same hatch as Amy. Now the wait is on for those beautiful blue/green eggs!

 

[chickybums]

Here are my 4 americauna chickens, not the best pics as they just woke up and its waas pretty cold and early. Anywyas what you think all boys or do I get an egg at least? These Chicks were born MAY 9th and I stillhave yet to hear a sound or see an egg from my americauna/easter eggers. (the 2 darks are true A and the rest are EE)

 

[LazyQ]

I didn't see boy one. BUTT I don't see as good as I usta.

 

[EggieRowe]

I love all the different color EE's! Where do most of you get them from? I got mine from a hatchery and 4 out of 5 were the same beige/brown/black boring palette of colors. The odd one out is all white. I'd love to get some gray or other colored ones down the road.

 

[aoxa]

Here are my 4 americauna chickens, not the best pics as they just woke up and its waas pretty cold and early. Anywyas what you think all boys or do I get an egg at least? These Chicks were born MAY 9th and I stillhave yet to hear a sound or see an egg from my americauna/easter eggers. (the 2 darks are  true A and the rest are EE) 

All are girls.

They are EEs

Also my EEs born March 4th started laying August 2nd. The last one to start was just a couple of weeks ago.

 

[chickenstew]

I have a small flock of three and decided I wanted to add an EE for a green egg...got two EEs from feed store, one turned out to be a roo so rehomed the couple. Incubated 3 eggs and let broody hen hatch 7 more. Out of all 12 of my Spring projects, I only kept Nemo (named for her jumping straight into the water in my incubator). So, based on what I have read, is she more likely to not lay a green egg because she turned out to have a single comb?
Also, she is 21 weeks, does she look ready to lay yet?

 

[aoxa]

I have a small flock of three and decided I wanted to add an EE for a green egg...got two EEs from feed store, one turned out to be a roo so rehomed the couple. Incubated 3 eggs and let broody hen hatch 7 more. Out of all 12 of my Spring projects, I only kept Nemo (named for her jumping straight into the water in my incubator). So, based on what I have read, is she more likely to not lay a green egg because she turned out to have a single comb?
Also, she is 21 weeks, does she look ready to lay yet?

That looks like a modified pea comb, not a single comb. She COULD lay green.

Love how she got her name. Very nice looking girl!

Oh and she looks close to laying

 

[Celie]

Actually, a VERY easy way to show people sexing EE's by demonstrating with your pictured birds there is by color. EE's are very easily sexed by color, as most are actually sex-linked too.


Females in most cases come out a partridge looking brown and black, often known as wild-type duckwing. Some though are silver too, which is strictly black and white, sometimes with a salmon breast.

Males on the other hand are quite often black and white, but have colored red, orange, or yellow feathers that emerge on sometimes the neck, back, and most importantly and almost always the shoulders. These are tell-tail signs of a male, as females cannot have that color in those regions. Other male colors that are red flags are one coming out with a black breast and red markings on the shoulders, neck, and back.

True saddle and hackle feathers actually come in much later, so judging by them is a hard thing to do, especially when someone is new with chickens.

What sex would you say the solid black ones or solid white ones are? I recently bought some new ones, strate run from a hatchery and got mostly solid black or solid white and a few chipmonk striped?

 

[Celie]

Hello, everyone! I am new to chickens, with 7 baby girls from Meyer Hatchery, 3 of which are Easter Eggers. They are now 13 weeks old. After reading this ENTIRE thread over the past month or so, I thought I was pretty safe that they were sexed correctly, but this week one of my Easter Eggers is making me question that with upright tail feathers which seem pointier than the other girls. The comb is no bigger or redder than the others, and the legs aren't any thicker than the others, and there aren't any splashes of color. Can any of you please reassure me that she is really a she? She was brown as a chick (hence named "Brownie" by my son), and was the sweetest chick from the beginning, but is getting a little standoff-ish now. She was one of the first to start clucking instead of cheeping, in case that means anything. I don't even know if roosters cluck when they're not crowing!




There is a bit of iridescense in the tail.




Thanks very much!

Roosters do cluck when they are not crowing, I have a lot that do, not just Ee's !