EE chick... girl or boy?? (updated pic: 4 weeks old!)

[technodoll]

I know you can't really tell at 7 days of age, but do boys and girls have different color patters or any way to help guess the gender?

I really really am hoping for a girl or else I can't keep him... I already have 3 EE roos!

What do you think??

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Way too young to tell. You need to wait about 6 weeks more weeks for us to even have a guess.

 

[technodoll]

That's what I thought... You can't tell by feather development or anything like that, right?

I'll have to be patient

 

[Bravo]

I know I am going out on a total limb here but I say roo.

My EE boys have been pretty slow to feather and in hindsight they always photographed standing tall and as proud as can be.

Time is really the only way to tell but if you start noticing him "sparing" with the others that is a good sign it's a "he"

Here is a pic of one of one of my EE girls and boys at 1 week old

EE Girl

EE Boy

 

[technodoll]

crap

of the 5 chicks so far 3 look to be boys... sigh.

i really really really wanted this one to be a girl, i cannot keep another EE roo as I already have 3.

hoping against hope for a miracle!!

 

[Bravo]

I wouldn't freak out now. I have had a few "suspicious" ones turn out to be pullets

One was at POL before I could tell for sure lol!

If its a roo, depending on his genetics (if he throws blue or green) he could sell very quickly on craigslist

 

[technodoll]

Nugget is 12 days old now... By the feather growth on the wings, top of wings and tail I'm really hoping for a girl

(let me dream!)

BTW Nugget is not pure EE, I see some tiny white feathers on the legs... her mom or grandmom was mixed with brahma, I found out!

 

[jeslewmazer]

I vote girl.

 

[Shelly_WNC]

I was wonder this same thing too , if you could tell by feather arrangement. Half my chicks have long wing feathers and tail feathers, and the other half have 'fuzzier butts' and short one layer of wing feathers (all are 9 days old). Just like the pictures you show. I was hoping that someone would say the wings and tail feathers differentiate the girls from the boys.

BTW - your chicks are just beautiful ... and I'm loving your camera (so clear).

 

[19hhbelgian]

Nugget looks like she is smiling in the pics!

They are wonderfully clear pictures! Wish I could get mine to come out that nice... I am voting girl