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

[PNW_Peepers]

Thank you bunches! I’m hoping all end up being pullets! I’ll definitely keep my fingers crossed. I got all my chicks from my pet chicken. I split a batch of fifteen assorted breed pullets with a friend!

 

[DrFeathers]

My two EE girls looked like your two brown ones as chicks - see profile pic - one ended up with cheek muffs and one without but both lay pretty blue-green eggs

 

[PNW_Peepers]

My two EE girls looked like your two brown ones as chicks - see profile pic - one ended up with cheek muffs and one without but both lay pretty blue-green eggs

They are stunning! I hope mine turn out even half as gorgeous as your gals.

 

[bruceha2000]

They will go through several juvenile moults before showing their final patterns. The ones I have had that had a lot of barring as juveniles ever so slowly lost it all through successive moults.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

From what I’ve read, your all white girl is a snowy white Easter Egger. We ended up with one too. She lays pretty blue eggs.
I too, agree with everyone, to early to tell for sure at 4 weeks. Our 1 roo out of our batch of 23 was definitely showing more roo signs at 7 weeks. As for the rest of our girls, some were easy to tell they were pullets but many had me questioning for weeks (and a few for months) whether or not they could be roos.

 

[bruceha2000]

There is no such thing as a "snowy white" Easter Egger, or any other named color They are just Easter Eggers. I got one in 2015 that was white with the most minimal pale peach color on her head. That peach spread along her body. She also lays blue eggs.
This was her at 6 weeks with Penelope. Penelope's barring was slowly replaced with her juvenile moults:


This was them at 3.5 months:


The cockerel I got in my last order was a Barnevelder and I knew he was male by 3 weeks. Just SO different from the female in stance and speed of feathering.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

Hmmmm... she was and is still pure white. So while she was still teeny, I read up on them to make sure we had actually got an EE that we thought we had. Many places, including this BYC forum made reference to them being a “snowy white EE”. Oh well, the name sounds dignified, even if it isn’t a real classification .. . I had also seen that the all white was more rare than the patterned variety, but I don’t know the validity of that either. I DO know I love our EE girls and wouldn’t want to be without them in our flock

 

[bruceha2000]

I think an all white EE would be pretty rare. All the EEs I've seen have at least SOME pattern on them. Could be your girl has a lot of true Ameraucana in her background. One of the recognized colors is white.

 

[PNW_Peepers]

MPC offers snowy Easter Eggers as a breed option. I know it’s just a color difference. I purchased just run of the mill EE’s lucky I got the all white one. So far she has no signs of a pattern coming in and she’s our biggest chick of the bunch.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

I think an all white EE would be pretty rare. All the EEs I've seen have at least SOME pattern on them. Could be your girl has a lot of true Ameraucana in her background. One of the recognized colors is white.

So cool! Thank you for that nugget! I didn’t know that about the Ameraucanas! And yep other than for when she is a little dusty or has gotten poo on her, she’s an all white lady with dark legs, and cheek fluff. She is slimmer than our all our other EE’rs too.