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

[Alabama ee]

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Top one is a roo.

 

[ItsAZOO32]

Quote:
Top one is a roo.

Possibly but 15 weeks is a bit later for comb development right?

 

[Nigellas]

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Top one is a roo.

Agree.

 

[Gmsg01]

Here are a couple more black and whites to consider. Father is white Ameracuna, mother was Wheaten Ameracuna. Pretty sure I have a roo and a pullet. 9 weeks old and a couple days.

Hopefully she

Defintely he

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Top one is a roo.

Agree.

I'm still sure both are girls - don't get rid of the top one - she'll be quite pretty.

 

[verlaj]

Here are my EE chicks, now 3 weeks old:

I've been reading this thread and will be interested to see the signs of "maleness" as they appear! (Daddy was a clean-faced, white sport of halo's wheaten ameracauna flock; the mamas are Ideal EEs or olive eggers from halo (blue rock roo X EE hens). Also, I will be interested to see if the "tail up" or "tail down" characteristic is telling this early on. I inspected the combs - can't see "3 rows of bumps" on any of them. Also, seem every EE chick's legs look pretty dainty, at least compared to a Plymouth Rock roo I have that is the same age. Any thoughts?

(The brown chick is a GCM X Welsummer.)

 

[Gmsg01]

Nice pics, no idea.

 

[shortkaike]

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Agree.

I'm still sure both are girls - don't get rid of the top one - she'll be quite pretty.

Thanks I hope you are right! I have 4 chickens total and have to get rid of 1 but would really like to keep both of my ee if they are girls

 

[typnslow]

I received my very first backyard flock babies USPS April this this year. I picked 1 each of 6 different breeds. Dual purpose birds chosen for bird coloring, egg production, egg color, broodiness and able to tolerate our North Alabama climate. (Here in Bama we don't do much middle of the road it is either HOT as crap or COLD as crap with a few mediocre weeks in between). I had picked names before the fuzzies got here. I named them by breed and what i figured the adult hens would look like. Day 2 my little Noodle the EE died of natural causes, it just happens like that sometimes. If you can be lucky in the death of a baby chick....at least the local county feed store had a new hatch of Dukes mixture chicks about the same hatch date as mine...so I got another Noodle. Herein lies the rub, the guy working the store didnt have a clue how to sex baby chicks. I had seen it done with kittens and rabbits, in person (with some success) and with chickens on TV - thanks to the Dirty Jobs dude. So....to make a long story even longer, I picked up a couple squeezed them everso gently and picked the one I didnt think was a boy, but even as a baby had muff in the fluff....how did I do?

Meet Noodle II

See Noodles Side

And the Comb

I want to add a rooster to my flock. I was thinking rare breed bantam so as not to stress out the girls.
Now I have to be sure Noodle is not a Roo before I can.
The rest are girls I am sure of it.

Any input will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Christie


(edited to removed extra photo)

 

[ItsAZOO32]

Noodle looks girlie to me