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

[lizardandchicks]

I don't know about the comb, but I have a marans/ameraucana olive egger with no beard/muffs. She looked a lot like yours at that age.

I has one like that as well, she was just a different color.

 

[jane s chickens]

When u cross a barred hen X a non barred roo the pullets will be solid colors frequently black. Mine have black beaks, combs, feet and legs.

 

[sophiaw00]

Is it normal for an easter eggers feathers to change completely...color, pattern, everything...from 4 weeks to maturity? One of my easter eggers started off with a black barred type (sorta, wasn't sure how else to describe it) pattern and now she looks nothing like it.




She's the one in the very front.

 

[junebuggena]

Is it normal for an easter eggers feathers to change completely...color, pattern, everything...from 4 weeks to maturity? One of my easter eggers started off with a black barred type (sorta, wasn't sure how else to describe it) pattern and now she looks nothing like it.




She's the one in the very front.

That pattern she had as a chick is juvenile partridge type coloring. They are juvenile "first" feathers. It indicates the adult base coloring, in this case light gold/cream, and the adult patterning as a partridge type penciling. Other genes control the amount of patterning an adult bird expresses.
For example, my cockerel feathered with red based juvenile feathering. He carries a columbian inhibitor gene that only allows his pattern to express on his hackles, primary wing feathers, saddle feathers, and tail.
He went from this,

To this.

My pullets are partridge type with no inhibitors.
They are on the left in this picture.

Now they look like this.

 

[sophiaw00]

Thank you so much! I was confused because her sister looks practically the same as when she was a baby.

 

[Deckgirls]

hey guys!!! i got some closer pics of my 8 week old babies combs to maybe help with my sexing i appreciate all of your input!! i find it fun honestly to guess


ok this is my rooster he is very obvious and i like posting a pic of him because 1) he is beautiful and 2) he hatched the same day as the other two and his feet and comb and coloring i like comparing to help with the guessing game. so here he is big feet, big red comb and of course coloring



roo coloring, no neck feathers yet, longer tail but still small(er) comb than my obvious roo






im stumped, smaller comb and feet, not colorful at all but i've read black and white is a good rooster color when it comes to EEs

anyway thanks for having fun and guessing with me!!!!!

 

[Rea17]

hey guys!!! i got some closer pics of my 8 week old babies combs to maybe help with my sexing i appreciate all of your input!! i find it fun honestly to guess


ok this is my rooster he is very obvious and i like posting a pic of him because 1) he is beautiful and 2) he hatched the same day as the other two and his feet and comb and coloring i like comparing to help with the guessing game. so here he is big feet, big red comb and of course coloring



roo coloring, no neck feathers yet, longer tail but still small(er) comb than my obvious roo






im stumped, smaller comb and feet, not colorful at all but i've read black and white is a good rooster color when it comes to EEs

anyway thanks for having fun and guessing with me!!!!!

I would be interested in seeing what the first chick turns out looking like, but I think they are both pullets. The black and white one is for sure.

 

[bruceha2000]

Just curious about your leg color comment. I have an "olive egger" that I was told was a Maran/Ameraucana. She is black with black legs with yellow soles. Is that a Jersey Giant trait? Here is her pic:


I should get a picture of the bottoms of her feet tomorrow. Just curious! Thanks!
I will defer to june on what the cross MIGHT be but both BAs and JGs have a single comb so yours is neither.

Is it normal for an easter eggers feathers to change completely...color, pattern, everything...from 4 weeks to maturity? One of my easter eggers started off with a black barred type (sorta, wasn't sure how else to describe it) pattern and now she looks nothing like it.




She's the one in the very front.

In short - yes! You can usually spot an overall color tendency but they won't look at maturity as they do as chicks. One of the fun things about EEs! Yours is the first I recall seeing with that creamy yellow coloring.

hey guys!!! i got some closer pics of my 8 week old babies combs to maybe help with my sexing i appreciate all of your input!! i find it fun honestly to guess


ok this is my rooster he is very obvious and i like posting a pic of him because 1) he is beautiful and 2) he hatched the same day as the other two and his feet and comb and coloring i like comparing to help with the guessing game. so here he is big feet, big red comb and of course coloring



roo coloring, no neck feathers yet, longer tail but still small(er) comb than my obvious roo






im stumped, smaller comb and feet, not colorful at all but i've read black and white is a good rooster color when it comes to EEs

anyway thanks for having fun and guessing with me!!!!!

I will have to lean pullet on both given the lack of comb, though the random patterned/non patterned feathers on the red one make me hesitate a bit

. Could be she is just red based and working into her juvenile plumage. As you have seen it is very common for EEs to have heads of a different color than the body.

And as you noted your very obvious cockerel hatched the same day is, well, VERY obviously a cockerel!

 

[Deckgirls]

I would be interested in seeing what the first chick turns out looking like, but I think they are both pullets. The black and white one is for sure.

yay as long as i have ONE i will be happy!!!! i was so worried she would hatch out 3 roosters and since i live in the city i would have had to have gotten rid of all of them waaaahhhh!!!!!!

 

[Deckgirls]

i am SO excited to see their coloring change and develop! its so fun! my red one is my hard one to decipher. the others are already colored and looking like real chickens and she is still fuzzy so i'm stumped. they change so quickly that i'm sure next week she will look different ha!