HELP IDENTIFYING AND SEXING CHICKS

[Lacy Duckwing]

Just another update as the chicks are about 6 weeks old now!
1st few pictures is EE#2 from page 1

Last few pictures are from EE #4

To me it's looking more cockerel, especially in the third picture. The feathers are starting to look like rooster feathers.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Just another update as the chicks are about 6 weeks old now!
1st few pictures is EE#2 from page 1

Last few pictures are from EE #4

That red plumage popping up is not a good sign. If there had been no red feathers appearing, then it would have been a pullet.

 

[The Five O]

That red plumage popping up is not a good sign. If there had been no red feathers appearing, then it would have been a pullet.

Is that for both of them ? They both look cockerel ? As everyone said #4 was puller before haha

 

[The Five O]

To me it's looking more cockerel, especially in the third picture. The feathers are starting to look like rooster feathers.

Is that for both chicks pictured ? Or just one ?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Is that for both chicks pictured ? Or just one ?

Oh, I thought they were the same bird, sorry about that. (I was wondering why they looked like they changed, lol.) The second one is looking like pullet. The first one is definitely a cockerel though.

 

[The Five O]

Oh, I thought they were the same bird, sorry about that. (I was wondering why they looked like they changed, lol.) The second one is looking like pullet. The first one is definitely a cockerel though.

Hahaha no worries ! Ok yeah the tail feathers are significantly different also if that matters yet. I know usually the females get them first .

 

[The Five O]

Here is a picture of them side by side and another one with the brown EE puller in the middle .

 

[SchwartzLakeFarmNC]

#1 seems to me as showing Cockerel colorations, #4 Pullet.

 

[The Five O]

#1 seems to me as showing Cockerel colorations, #4 Pullet.

Thank u!

 

[hollymamma]

What you are seeing on your pullet is a female-specific color that cannot be found on males. And size does not really matter in Easter Eggers—they are a mixed breed, so they can be large or small.

What are the female-specific colors? Learning something new... I am keeping a close eye on a grey EE that I keep thinking may be a cockerel, but from what I've learned could just be a larger female. Maybe week five will start showing more evidence. Thanks so much!