Easter Eggers, need help sexing please

[lovelychicken]

Posted earlier, need help to sex these guys/gals. Supposed to all be layers but think I heard on do the "cockadoodledoo" today.

 

[bethandjoeync]

can't always tell by comb, a body picture would help, along with good view of tail.

 

[Riocotesei]

How old are they?
I tthink the top picture is a rooster and the bottom a pullet.

 

[wanda047]

You can sex an EE by their tail feathers??

 

[Riocotesei]

Well any chicken. To see if they have pointy sickle feathers growing in. Which is a characteristic of a rooster.

 

[lovelychicken]

I am gonna search what a sickle feather is, have no clue.

 

[Lover-of-Poultry]

Quote:
That is exactly what I was thinking.

 

[wanda047]

I bet ya to it!

I wondered the same thing when I read the post last night. It's apparently the long tail feathers that most roosters get. dictionary says its, "One of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster."

I have 8 BO that appear to be cockerels, (red combs and wattles), but I'm only hearing one attempt to crow. I'll be examining tail feathers today!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, sometimes a young pullet will have a couple of long tailfeathers, too, but they molt out. So, I never go by that. Going by saddle feathers and a wide comb on an EE will usually give you the sex of the bird. Hackles aren't as dependable since many hens look to have pointy hackles in the EEs.

 

[wanda047]

I was looking at some photos of BO hens on google last night and noticed that their combs and wattles get pretty red! This is how I had been determining sex on my BO.... now I'm not so sure any more. We will start putting unwanted roos in the freezer in the next month or so... I don't want to butcher any of my pullets by mistake.

Width of comb... something else to look at. Think I'll take my camera to the coop/run with me and see if I can get some photos of my potential roos and get some opinions.

Lovelychicken... how old are your birds?