EE has no butt feathers??

[mrsengeseth]

MY (what i believe to be an) EE Has no rear end feathers...no nubbin where feathers will eventuallly come from. Her coop mates all have a nubbin with pin feathers beginning (granted, they are all four different breeds). My question is...uh...where's her hiney feathers?? She just has this round little rump.

 

[Frizzledhen]

I had an Ameraucana rooster and 4 EE hens. One of the hens always had rumpless chicks although she was not. It must have been genetics going back to that rumpless breed ? araucana ?. Heavens only knows what hatcheries use to produce their EEs. If your bird has no tail, it will have not tail feathers.

 

[mrsengeseth]

with no tail will it be harder to sex the bird?

 

[coffeemama]

I had a rumpless EE in my last batch of chicks. I could tell it was a roo pretty early on.

 

[amazondoc]

I am NOT a chicken sexing expert....but it is perfectly easy to tell my rumpless roo from my rumpless pullets.

edited to add -- hey cool, now I'm "overrun with chickens!"! This post put me over the top. Coooooellllll.