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

[Leo1]

So I'm reading through this thread and I believe all my kids are girls, but I have two I'm not sure of. One has the black and brown coloring but her head is black. Not her chest or neck just her head. Can a pullet have a black head? I also have one who's white/cream with a gold head. She little compared to the others and also very timid. They are almost 7 weeks and no one seems to have combs yet or any redness to speak of. Any thoughts? I would post pics, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it

Thanks for any help!

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Here's a link with how to post pics

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=504

 

[melloladies]

I have my opinions, and that of the original "momma" of this bird- but what do you think? Is Lucy a lady? Aged between 8-10wks

edited to add age

 

[ItsAZOO32]

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I am still on the fence but.. a few of those tail feathers are a little pointy looking..

 

[melloladies]

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I am still on the fence but.. a few of those tail feathers are a little pointy looking..

Thank you for weighing in my dear

 

[mama24]

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It's a little early to tell, esp with those colors, but it's looking like a girl so far to me. I have a black and white EE girl who looked just like yours at that age. She's absolutely gorgeous now.

See how nice and even her lacing looks? That's girly looking. If it starts looking more splotchy and patchy as the feathers come in, that's the first sign it may be a boy. Then a boy would very likely get red patches on the wings and shoulders. But like I sai, she looks like my girl so far.

 

[mama24]

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THe dark red on the wings and shoulders is making me say boy.

 

[mercedes]

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I am still on the fence but.. a few of those tail feathers are a little pointy looking..

I'm also leaning toward roo,very handsome roo.

 

[verlaj]

I love Lucy - I hope she is a girl!

Here are mine - I posted photos of them a few weeks ago. Now they are about 6.5 weeks (7 wks on Sunday). I took their last studio shots yesterday and moved them to their apartment in the coop.

The daddy is a clean-faced, white sport of halo's wheaten ameracaunas and the mommas are either Ideal EEs or halos olive eggers. (I had one blue and one black hen that were a blue rock X EE. I assume the splash, blue, and mostly black chicks were from them.)

Sadly, I think both of these are boys:

I think this pretty blue one is a boy, too. (The brown barred one is a GCM X Wellie.)

At last, I think I have a pullet. I'm pretty sure the one on the left is a girl, on the right, a boy.

I think I have a pullet here, too, on the right. I'm guessing the one on the left is a boy.

I had thought at first that both of these black ones were girls, because their tails grew long quickly, but now I think they are a girl (left) and a boy (right).

And last - I think one of these was hatched from a blue egg. (I also had some brown eggs in the incubator that were black rock chicks.) I think it is the one on the left, and I think that it's a pullet.

So of the 10 EE eggs that hatched, I'm afraid only 4 are pullets. I am trying to be conservative in my guessing. Would love to hear other opinions, though. I am basing my opinion mostly on the combs pinking up, but if there are other features I should be noticing here that a tell-tale signs of male vs female, please let me know. Also, I have many other photos if anyone would like another view. Thanks!

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Sorry, but 100% boy. His coloring and comb tells me boy.