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

[mckenzy]

None of mine have yellow feet. I love yellow feet! I hope they're both ladies... Either way, cute feet!

 

[kwitzats]

 

[kwitzats]

Pretty sure peachy guy (kids named it) is a roo and needs to be relocated but not sure. It is 18ish weeks old no spurs and I heard it try to crow. It is a easter egger I think.

 

[kwitzats]

The kids naming it peachey guy when I thought they were all hen chicks might have been a bit of forshadowing of the bad news. Still I jave my fingers crossed I might be wrong and just have a boyish girl.

 

[kwitzats]

Not even a nub of a spur tho

 

[shmccarthy]

Not even a nub of a spur tho

That is 100% cockerel, without a doubt. The coloring is male and the comb is very developed. Spurs don't start developing for a couple more months. My EE rooster didn't get his spurs prominently until he was about a year old.

 

[bluehousefarm]

I have 8 cockerels that look exactly like peachy guy... Number nine is a pullet, if the people on this thread are right...

 

[kwitzats]

Thanks I was afraid of that the kids are going to be upset and I'm not sure what to do with him now.

 

[Katt66]

Does anybody else notice what seems to be an unusally high number of roosters born to Easter Eggers?

 

[NanaLynn]

I need the EE experts to weight in on these 5 week olds. They were eggs sold as EEs but clearly they are mixes. They came from tan/brown eggs and bluish green eggs. There are 4 total. the orange/white,2 chipmunk, one of which looks to have some blue in it and the other is lighter overall. The last is the white one. Thanks! Breeds mixed in and sexes would be great!

This looks like a Golden Buff, Golden Comet, Golden Sex Link, Cinnamon Queen or Red Star- All pretty much the same breed. I have a female one of these and she has a more hen like posture and less of a comb and her color is more uniform.

Was he a light yellow as a chick? That would mean a male.

or more an orange brown chick? That would mean female.

Could be wrong, but that's what it looks like.