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

[Wishing4Wings]

JoshR, yes the comb is suspicious. Do you have a recent profile view of the bird. It would help to see feather color, especially on the wings. Dark red would confirm a male. Otherwise, I'm not positive.

 

[JoshR]

Here are some that I just took. I hope they help.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Here are some that I just took. I hope they help.

Yup. I think it's a cockerel. We'll see what others have to say. Think you have a couple of cockerels amongst your black birds as well.

 

[lizardandchicks]

Yup. I think it's a cockerel. We'll see what others have to say.  Think you have a couple of cockerels amongst your black birds as well.

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[JoshR]

Yup. I think it's a cockerel. We'll see what others have to say. Think you have a couple of cockerels amongst your black birds as well.

Cool! I was hopping he was going to be a cockerel. I just hope I don't have any other cockerels. The black australorps are suppose to be pullets, that is what I ordered from the hatchery. My EE was a free strait run though. So I was hooping it was going to be a cockerel.

 

[lizardandchicks]

Cool! I was hopping he was going to be a cockerel. I just hope I don't have any other cockerels. The black australorps are suppose to be pullets, that is what I ordered from the hatchery. My EE was a free strait run though. So I was hooping it was going to be a cockerel.

Hatcheries aren't always right. Believe me, I have gotten quite a few cockerals from hatcheries that were sexed pullet.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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Yay! Love it when someone wants a cockerel! From what I've read, the extra "packing peanut" chicks are always male.

If the Austrlorps are also 9 weeks, the pullets will have small, very pale (or grayish) combs. Compare them and look for anyone with a larger pinkish comb. If the wattles are developing, that is also a sign of a cockerel. I saw a couple in that first pic that looked suspicious, but it's not always easy to judge from pics on the computer. Most hatcheries will only claim 90% accuracy in sexing chicks. It's more of an art than an exact science.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Lol no there's no doubt the patchy one is 100% all boy

I will defer to june on what the cross MIGHT be but both BAs and JGs have a single comb so yours is neither. 


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.


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!

 

[Annadurai]

MY EE babies are 7 weeks old now. I have had some trouble getting pictures during the day so I waited til they bedded down for the night and lit the coop up.


Chick #1




Chick #2


# 3&4 (The bobsy twins always hanging out together)




Chick #2 again


Chick #5 (is kinda sandwiched between the older EE's) lol


Chick #6 (she is up 8 feet on top of the fan that is in the screened opening)




chick 3&4 again


Chick #7




Chick #8


Chick #9










Chick #10







Chick #11 (the one on the left) not a great pic but a cute cuddle pic with the older Egger.

Sorry some are dark I will try again when they aren't all up top to get out of the meat chicken frey (The Cornish Cross chickens are all on the floor of the coop at night stealing the floor space).

 

[jane s chickens]

3 rows of peas in comb equals male.