Hello Howlet and Welcome to BYC! Wing feather sexing is tricky. There are some breeds and some mixes that wing sexing tends to work on. The best summary of chick sexing I have ever seen was in an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. People employed at large hatcheries train and apprentice for many years to become a chick sexer, the most reliable way is vent sexing, but it takes a lot of training to learn that skill. The worker actually looks into the vent of the chick to see if the copulatory organ is there. With wing sexing, the idea is that cockerels will feather more slowly than their pullet sisters. There are old men at the feed store who swear that it works with every breed, but in my experience some breeds really have no difference in wing feathering between the males and females. Worse yet, it is possible that some females might feather slower, due to the mix involved or some other factor. The EEs I made this spring did show faster feathering in the pullets, but they all had the same brown leghorn father and the same EE mother. It was very clear by 2 weeks which ones were males. I grew them all out anyway, because you really can't risk it, plus I wanted to see how the roosters turned out. The first five pages of this thread taught me more about EE specific sexing than I ever imagined. Read those early pages, look at the photographs, they're pure gold. Also, the wonderful experienced folks on here are crazy good at sexing an EE from a photograph. If you can, post a picture of your EE and we can try to determine its gender. Good luck and hope to see you around!So wait i heard u can tell the gender by wing feather length...???
is that true or is it all in the tail
