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

[Frost Homestead]

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looks girly to me

 

[Lothiriel]

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Color looks pullet but the comb looks cockerel. I'm on the fence.

Maybe you should wait another week or so.

 

[dandydoodle]

Okay, seems like everyone is confused as I am about this one. Comparing its comb to the boys I have I am thinking girl. Its feathers look girlish to me except for the red around the neck area. I checked out pictures from her ancestry and the hens on her dad side have red on their heads and neck. Anyway so I guess she/ he is just gonna be a tough little bugger to sex. I will try and post pics again in about a week and see if anything has become more apparent.

 

[dandydoodle]

Sorry I have to whine a minute..

Uggggh, I really hope this one isn't a boy. That will be 3 out of 3 EEs that turned out to be boys and 5 out of six babies that turned out to be boys.

I also have 3 imported Chocolate Orpingtons and I think I have two roos and one girl. Out of 6 babies I was hoping for just one boy and I wanted that to be a Chocolate Orpington.

Well I guess at least I ended up with a boy and a girl chocolate. Now I am gonna have to start looking for homes for boys.

I hate that. I hate having to sell my babies but, I just can't keep that many boys.

Okay, I am done whining.

 

[GardeNerd]

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Twiggers96- Your chick is darker gray than my pullet was at the same age. Also, my pullet had no red feathers at all at 5 to 6 weeks old. The amount of red feathers your chick has is the amount mine started showing at 13 - 14 weeks.

I am sorry, but if I had to decide, based on the amount of comb color I can see on my monitor from the picture, I would vote cockerel.

 

[BlazeJester]

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At least you can sell the chocolate orp for quite a chunk of change. Most people can't even give away roos.

 

[dandydoodle]

True,
I am not positive that I have two Chocolate roos yet. I am guessing two are roos because of their personalities. There personalities seem really rooish quite pushy. LOL!!! We will see though. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if I was wrong and one of those boy chocs turned out to be a girl. LOL!!!! I guess I don't care if I have one boy and one girl choc I will be a happy camper.

I really do hope that one little EE is a girl though. I must admit I am quite attached to it. My broody quit sitting on it about half way through but, I went ahead and put it in the bator when that happened. I candled it and saw the little baby a wiggling and I just couldn't let it die. Unfortunately I didn't know how many days it was on so I didn't know for sure when to stop turning and go into lock down. So unfortunately I accidentally shrink wrapped it, so I ended up assisting the hatch. I couldn't bare the fact that it was gonna die because, I shrink wrapped it. Normally I wouldn't try to hatch but, I knew what was wrong was my fault and because, I didn't know what day the baby was on. I could see the baby struggling. So I took the top of the egg off for it and I made a little whole so it could breath. I figured if I didn't it wouldn't be able to breath because, there was no fluid left and the membrane was completely tight. When I did there was a bleed, I was so sad. I thought I had killed it. I wet the membrane and put it back in the bator and prayed it would be okay. I hoped I had made a hole big enough for it to breath but, after that bleed I wasn't gonna touch it again. The next day little one still seemed to be wiggling so I made a little bigger hole so it could breath and I put it back. About 12 hours later I wet the membrane and checked to see if the veins were still really active. They seemed to be going away, so I decided to wet and loosed. I just loosened a little because, I didn't want to talk it all the way out in case it hadn't absorbed the yolk sac. Well after I wet it and loosed it just a little it popped out all on its own and is doing great. I can't believe it made it here it seemed like the cards were stacked against it. I so hope it is a girl so I can keep it. :0(.

Sorry I know long story. I am sure you all have them too.

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At least you can sell the chocolate orp for quite a chunk of change. Most people can't even give away roos.

 

[dandydoodle]

Okay, so if your Easter Egger is a girl how old should it be before you see the second and third row on the pea comb?

 

[BlazeJester]

My mom's EE pullet doesn't have a second or third row on her peacomb, but my araucana has very well defined rows (to this point). Guess it depends how good the genetics are.

 

[dandydoodle]

Okay I thought I would post a pic of all 3 of my EE babies to see what ya'll think.

So can ya'll tell me what my little blue, Splash and multicolored EE are boys or girls?