EE Hen or Roo?

[ChickenLeg]

Just wanted to add that in EE roosters saddle, sickle, and hackle feathers aren't always present.

Ive hatched out several EE that i thought were forsure females until 7 or 8 months old,
but roosters like this dont usually crow, they are feminine and usually don't reproduce or mate.

I'm not disagreeing that is is a pullet, because i looks like a pullet to me, I just wanted to note
that the feathering isn't always a furesure give away on EE especially if its created on generation F1

 

[hdowden]

i for one would like to see those hen feathered roosters. they are always present some are just slow at maturing though coloring is a dead give away and this one is 4000% pullet due to it's coloration alone. also how do you know they are roosters what gave that away. i have yet to see a hen feathered EE

 

[donrae]

Just wanted to add that in EE roosters saddle, sickle, and hackle feathers aren't always present.

Ive hatched out several EE that i thought were forsure females until 7 or 8 months old,
but roosters like this dont usually crow, they are feminine and usually don't reproduce or mate.

I'm not disagreeing that is is a pullet, because i looks like a pullet to me, I just wanted to note
that the feathering isn't always a furesure give away on EE especially if its created on generation F1

This is one of when we need that "this post is useless without pics" smilies.

 

[hdowden]

the only hen feathered breed is the sebright though campines can come hen feathered but that is a DQ in that breed. i have also hatched out sebright mixes and each and everyone of them has their saddles and hackles of a regular non hen feathered rooster....


again would like to see pics of those roosters that you say don not have the saddles and hackles and sickles.