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

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MaineiacJay said:
so my Easter Egger chicks that i hatched last month are feathering in nicely. id like some input on gender. im usually pretty good and im thinking 2 males and 2 females but id like to double check. ive got 5 roosters and i already feel like that is too many (most of my hens have no feathers on their backs or necks =/ ) so i want to make sure i can rehome them early, before i have to move them out to the rest of the flock. i think they all have silkie in them. the dominant roo is a silkie/black copper maran and all the chicks have feathered legs (except a miracle purebred from the only male wyandotte and 1 of 2 wyandotte hens!). these guys are about 5 weeks old. im pretty sure this is a male, and shows lots of silkie features, including black skin. i wanted to keep it the moment it hatched but its looking like a roo =( he has a lot fewer feathers than the others and just strikes me as a cockerel. sigh. he has a flat comb so but ive never had luck judging silkies anyways. this one seems to have female feathering, but the face just says MALE to me. maybe im crazy... cant tell on the pea comb, since it is flat.. this one i think is a pullet. the feathering color and the amount of feathers makes me think that. i cant tell if the comb is 1 row or 3 because its kinda flat... but i dont always trust that since i have a hen with 3 row pea comb. this one is weird. its got less feathering, like the black one, but the feathering looks like female and its got a very distinct single row pea comb. so i say female
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Silkies are very difficult to sex anyway. You may have some luck on a silkie or silkie mix thread...more so than this one.
 
MaineiacJay said:
so my Easter Egger chicks that i hatched last month are feathering in nicely. id like some input on gender. im usually pretty good and im thinking 2 males and 2 females but id like to double check. ive got 5 roosters and i already feel like that is too many (most of my hens have no feathers on their backs or necks =/ ) so i want to make sure i can rehome them early, before i have to move them out to the rest of the flock. i think they all have silkie in them. the dominant roo is a silkie/black copper maran and all the chicks have feathered legs (except a miracle purebred from the only male wyandotte and 1 of 2 wyandotte hens!). these guys are about 5 weeks old. im pretty sure this is a male, and shows lots of silkie features, including black skin. i wanted to keep it the moment it hatched but its looking like a roo =( he has a lot fewer feathers than the others and just strikes me as a cockerel. sigh. he has a flat comb so but ive never had luck judging silkies anyways. this one seems to have female feathering, but the face just says MALE to me. maybe im crazy... cant tell on the pea comb, since it is flat.. this one i think is a pullet. the feathering color and the amount of feathers makes me think that. i cant tell if the comb is 1 row or 3 because its kinda flat... but i dont always trust that since i have a hen with 3 row pea comb. this one is weird. its got less feathering, like the black one, but the feathering looks like female and its got a very distinct single row pea comb. so i say female
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They need to finish feathering before I'd have any confidence but my prediction is boy, girl, boy, boy. Sorry.
 
LonelyPageTurne said:
I dunno are you going off the legs? Cause they look feathered. I would swap your boy girls based on the coloration.
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Downy heads and hands obscuring the wings... Remember, brown does not equal female. I'm going off what I can see of the coloring (but it's subtle) and stance. Sharp barring is often male, for example.
 
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please help is this a roo????
 
Sorry about my thumb covering a bit, they wouldn't stay still! Lol. I looked at the coloring on the wings and chest and didn't see any reddish color anywhere, it's all just different shades of brown. They are 5 weeks I believe, they hatched on the 18-19th last month. The legs are feathered since one of the hens is a silkie mix and the father was ameraucana mix. The roo to the rest was a silkie marans mix, so they do have feathered legs from the silkie, but that's all except that black one that got mostly silkie genes apparently, so if you can't tell with that one, I don't blame you! Thanks anyways! I hope the majority are pulleys, but I'm still thinking the first two are boys.
 
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