Gender, please

[JFS321]

Hi all, my wife and I have been going back and forth almost daily about the sex of our Ameraucauna. Thus far no crowing, and no spurs. It is the only chicken we have that likes to jump on the backs of the hens and bite the neck, though.

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3096/img0024nx.jpg

Thanks!

 

[Lothiriel]

110% cockerel. See those long, skinny pointed feathers at the base of his tail? Those are saddle feathers and only the males get them like that. And he has skinny pointed hackle feathers on his neck. Not only the feathers point to boy, but the fact that he has been jumping on the hens backs. That's how they mate.

On another note, a lot of hens will get spurs as well, so that's really no indication of gender. And some hens will crow. It's not common, but it does happen. It's a dominance thing.

 

[JFS321]

Thank you much. The wife will be pleased to hear she was right!

 

[sonew123]

wow-Holy Cockeral!--saddle and hackle feathers growing in bigtime...long skinny skinny feathers growing in above his shoulders near neck region and tail region...Oh and I believe thats an EE not a pure Ameraucana... pretty boy though

 

[hdowden]

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X 10,000 lol

 

[JFS321]

Ok, ok, I stand in shame. I'll do some Googling but just to be lazy -- what's an "EE"?

Thanks again.

 

[sonew123]

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Easter Egger--if you got them from a hatchery..Easter Egger even though they say Ameraucana--

 

[ChickenWisperer]

It's a cockerel, and definitely NOT an Ameraucana. It's an Easter Egger, a mutt chicken with a blue egglaying ancestor.

 

[Lindz]

EE roo

 

[hcppam]

ROoooooooooo!