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

[aoxa]

Oh! Those are SOOO pretty Aoxa!!!

Thank you!! I think they are to die for adorable

Especially Fern. I hoped and wished for her to have a grey beard, and it looks like my wish came true!

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Oh yes! Fern is gorgeous!!!

Now I can't wait to see what mine are going to look like in 3 or 4 weeks!!!

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Does anyone have pictures of a PARTRIDGE EE??? I am wondering how that looks different than the duckwing coloring???

 

[itsren]

@ 5 weeks old mine did not have beards

@ 8 weeks
They go through a beardless stage, though some more than others.

That's good to know. Mine had such a cute fuzzy little face when we got her. Right now, at 4 weeks it's not quite as apparent. I hope it grows back in.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Does anyone have pictures of a PARTRIDGE EE??? I am wondering how that looks different than the duckwing coloring???

My EE:

 

[aoxa]

My EE:

Beautiful! I love how erect her tail is I didn't know EE's could have partridge colouring. Is it actually the same kind of markings as other breeds that are partridge?

This is what I thought was partridge

 

[Indigosands]

Aw, pretty girls!!

Ok. My breeding needs are just to expand my own flock as needed, and to offer EE chicks to friends and family who want them. Not a regular thing, certainly, however I do want to keep them true to type. These chicks came from a local farm/breeder not hatchery. OK so the two "roosters" I showed above are the two in the far right of this photo. The two females are on the left. So by what I'm being told, the white female is unlikely to have a beard? She is white and light red bodied now with gray head feathers. No sign of beard yet. The brown girl has a beard, as she did a few weeks ago.

The dark brown male had a beard but not much of one right now. The lighter brown never really had much. Just want to be sure I'm understanding this, but if brown female has a beard and brown male does, those are the pair to isolate for breeding, correct?

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Ok, that is WAY different than the duckwing coloring! Very pretty! I like that very much!

My EE:

 

[draye]

Beautiful! I love how erect her tail is

I didn't know EE's could have partridge colouring. Is it actually the same kind of markings as other breeds that are partridge?

This is what I thought was partridge

This type of partridge is penciled, whereas on a EE it is not, I think it is wildtype partridge..

 

[Illia]

My EE:





Sorry, not a Partridge.


True Partridge in EE's is very rare, in fact the closest you could call such is a typical wildype BBR. Partridge requires a gold and black penciled neck, and the rest of the body entirely covered in double-laced patterning, or, pencilling, of brown and black.

The above is a Wheaten w/Columbian and possibly a Duckwing allele in there, too.