Found in the Park

[mshuntjump]

Congrats on your rescue chick. Seems to be a few of them this year. I took in a rescue chick a couple weeks ago that was abandoned at a local high school in a plastic rodent cage - very sad. It seems to be doing fine now

Ooo! So cute!

 

[alliecat2886]

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I wouldn't be so quick to say it's a cockerel. I have an Easter egger pullet that looks exactly like that.

The one on the right has the same wing pattern and is a pullet [/quote

Yes, but you see how your pullet has a darker face? It's all about looking at facial feature colors. Yours is clearly a pullet, as she has dark features all over. The bird shown above is clearly a cockerel. I've sexed Easter eggers very successfully using this method since I was 10.

By your logic I have 9 roosters then. All of them are lighter in the face. I highly doubt all are roosters. Ill post pics soon.

 

[Deerling]

I wouldn't be so quick to say it's a cockerel. I have an Easter egger pullet that looks exactly like that.

Me too! We had two that looked almost exactly like that (the OP) and both are pullets. I would wait before calling the gender.

 

[Deerling]

Here are some pictures of ours - all pullets

 

[Chickenclucker]

I'm definitely not an expert at sexing chickens by looking at them, but because easter eggers are all different colors it seems silly to me to sex them just because one has a lighter colored face...just saying. I mean you can guess and all but there's no way that's accurate. Sorry mshunt..not to fight with you, just letting loveagoodegg know

 

[hdowden]

1: it is to young to tell gender on
2: it is an easter egger
3: repost pics when it reaches 8-10 weeks of age (should be fully feathered by then) and for more accrete gender id post at 16 weeks of age

 

[debid]

What color is the chest?

 

[debid]

Well, usually you cannot tell at this age, this guy just happened to be easier to figure out. Well first of all, easter egger hens are usually darker in color than the cockerels. When you get easter egger chicks and you're wanting hens, you should steer clear of the lighter colored chicks. Because usually, they are indeed males. See how your guy has a white- ish face? Second thing is, if i see corectly, he's already getting a red-ish comb.

Hogwash. There is no red in the comb on my screen and chick down says nothing about gender.

This is a pullet chick. She's now a grown hen and is an orange-buff with black patterning.

Also a pullet. She grew up to be lavender & buff.