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

[Ol Grey Mare]

Can you have both types of wing feathering from the same hatch (siblings)?

If you have good/true breeding stock, no - the cross will only yield sex linked feather sexable chicks. If the linkage is not true, the parent stock is not true.

 

[NikkiCole5]

Can you get a come shot. The pointy male feathers don't come in until after 10 weeks.

The rooster of these babies isn't an EE, he is a stray and many people on here believe him to be a Bantam game bird, so I don't think the comb will be able to show gender.

 

[NikkiCole5]

Alright I will

 

[junebuggena]

Regardless of what they are mixed with, comb size and redness in relation to the age of the bird is always important to consider when it comes to sexing a chick.

 

[MN Chicken]

I have been reading a lot of posts about EE sexing and the feathers of a roo being splotchy or quilted. This EE is 6 weeks old, has no comb development or color, but would her/his feather pattern be considered splotchy or quilted?

 

[junebuggena]

It's splotchy, but it doesn't look like a rooster's kind of splotchy yet. This one looks like it needs a few more weeks to know for sure if it's a girl or boy.

 

[MN Chicken]

That seems to be the theme for all of the chicks we hatched! Ambiguous bunch!

 

[NikkiCole5]

Regardless of what they are mixed with, comb size and redness in relation to the age of the bird is always important to consider when it comes to sexing a chick.

Oh! I will post pictures of the comb now

 

[NikkiCole5]

@junebuggena
Here you go

 

[junebuggena]

I think the one on the left might be a cockerel. The one on the right looks very girly. But that can change by the end of next week. I have one that, when comparing 6 week photos with 8 week photos, you would swear it was two completely different birds.