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

[jtbass2756]

These are only 4 wks in these picts.. had to hold the whitish one...he (agrravating little cuss) bound to be a roo! I will try to get better up to date picts but what do you think... I'm missing on for some reason...

 

[polarbearpilot]

What do Y'all think about this little one. It's supposed to be a pullet. May be too young still, it's 2 1/2 weeks.

A bit young, but with the emerging red patches, it looks cockerel to me.

 

[jtbass2756]

Here's a better pict of the white one...Has smaller built legs but does keep an attitude. Couldn't take it out and set it in a chair...it was already trying to bail... skittish but determined!!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Here's a better pict of the white one...Has smaller built legs but does keep an attitude. Couldn't take it out and set it in a chair...it was already trying to bail... skittish but determined!!

I think yours are too young yet, but the one standing just behind the white one (far right) looks to have a very red comb compared to the others. Is the the missing one from your first post? Suspiciously cockerel-esque.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Most EEs are bred from Ameraucana (sometimes Araucana) stock, and the gene for blue shells is usually passed down with the pea comb gene because those genes sit very close together on the chromosome. While it can and does happen, it is rare for the genes to be inherited separately.

The only other blue shelled layers I know of are Cream Legbars and U of A Blues (a university project that crossed Leghorns with blue Ameraucanas to produce a blue, straight combed, highly productive blue egg layer). Either of these breeds, though relatively uncommon, could be used to create a single combed EE. Can you contact the breeder to see what breeds were used?

Oops, memory's starting to go! Need to make some corrections here. The U of Arkansas blues are from Leghorns crossed with Araucanas and have a combination straight and pea comb. Cream Legbars have single combs.

 

[debid]

Can y'all have a go at these and tell me what you think

Brown one in first pic is a pullet, 100%. That pattern is exclusive to females. Darker one is a cockerel.
Second pic, not sure yet. The white mid-wing would need closer examination.
The white one looks girly.

 

[jtbass2756]

I think yours are too young yet, but the one standing just behind the white one (far right) looks to have a very red comb compared to the others. Is the the missing one from your first post? Suspiciously cockerel-esque.

Thank you for taking the time to answer...I know the picts are bad to sex and that they are young but I'm a "TOTAL" newbie when it come to chics.. I've only had hens for about 10 mo but got them as pullets. My DD is busy at the 4-H livestock show with my DGD...after that she will come get some of the tiny week old BCM's that I have in my other bucket.!!!! Think when I finally get all of mine in a coop...I'll stick to pullets and let her do all of the chick raising...in fact, I handed off 6 silkie splashes to my son...those are his weakness... Don't know where my grown kids got this chicken gene from...LOL'

 

[niff56]

Just took this pic...now he/she looks like a rooster to me

I used to have one that looked like this and it was a girl

 

[LindsayB]

A bit young, but with the emerging red patches, it looks cockerel to me.

I really hope not.. : ( I've had some bad luck this year, most of my chicks have been roos

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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When I was a kid, we had farm chickens that wandered all over and dug around in the piles left by the horses. They were pretty self sufficient. We'd just lock them in at night and let them out in the morning. Oh, and collect the eggs. Any chicks were hatched and raised exclusively by the hens. I liked them, but didn't really get involved with them. Now that I've got my own flock on a much smaller property, I've gotten to know the chickens well and am surprised at how personable they can be. My latent chicken gene was discovered, as was my hubby's and boy's! We are addicted! My latest infatuation is bantam Cochins.

Oh, so sweet. If only they laid blue eggs!!