EE colouring / plumage - chicks vs/ adults --- Post your PICS!

[Illia]

6th and 8th photo are likely boys - But since these are EE x something else, the gender isn't as easy to pick out.

When I say they're easy to sex by color, I mean F1 hatchery type EEs that are BBR-type color, (which is the most common) because the females always go that brown partridge type and the males always go to a BBR color or a white splashed BBR.

 

[emjay]

this is my EE roo at 12 weeks, lady sold him to me as a girl, I doubted it, but, bought him anyways, liked the coloring.

he turned into this

 

[Noncentzter]

emjay, he's a pretty boy!

 

[emjay]

thankyou and the rainbow on his wing didn't come with him haha.

 

[artsyrobin]

here are mine, the first set is one of my 'pullets' ooopppps!! you can see the signs of his rooness..

week 1 the left side chick

week 2

now, 2 months

then we have maggie

 

[Noncentzter]

Ok Illia, this is the light chipmunk I mentioned a few posts back...is this a pullet or a roo...






ETA: the one in the middle in both photos

 

[Rin]

My pullets Moto and Auri

They are the two large standard chicks(1 week) being buried in D'uccles XD

Moto on the left Auri on the right at 4 weeks

Auri at 7 weeks

Moto at 7 weeks too

Both at 10 weeks guarding the older D'uccle fluff pile

 

[emjay]

does the rule work for feather development in EE's as it does in pure breeds. ie: I have chicks that aren't even a week old yet and they have full sets of wing feathers and tail feathers growing. seems really quick. I have 10 babies and about 8 have nice wing sets.
2 especially. and tail feathers. they say girls get the tail feathers sooner in some breeds, would that work for EE's?

 

[Illia]

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Often it does, but the main thing I run by with EEs are feather coloring .Next would be comb.

 

[emjay]

my 5 week old babies are getting the combs now, some are a pink color now, but, nothing screaming red roo !!
they do the rooish fighting, but, only for seconds at a time, nothing to long. so none scream roo roo to me yet. maybe 2 of the 8.

as with my now almost week olds, the feather development, I am amazed how fast they grow.