Help sexing Easter Egger chicks?

[heathergreen]

I've got four Easter Egger chicks, all about five weeks old I believe....I'm afraid I've only got one girl out of the four I bought (I'm thinking #3 is the only pullet). Of course they were all bought as pullets from the feed store...but you know how that goes

Hopefully by these photos someone can help me out in sexing them...(you should be able to click the photos to view them larger).





We can own roosters here but I've already got a Sulmtaler roo, and he's not going anywhere. If anyone can help out in sexing, that would be awesome...would give me a jump start on finding them homes.

 

[KieksterChicken]

If you can get closer up pictures of their combs it would be easier to tell pullet from roo. General rule of thumb for a pea combed bird, which yours look like,, is 3 vertical rows of peas is roo, and 1 vertical row of peas is pullet.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I'm sexing by color, not comb. EEs are usually easy to sex by color but very hard to sex by comb. If they start getting any red patches in the shoulders, then they are most likely boys, but I don't see any obvious cockerels here. I'd keep an eye on #1 and reevaluate if it gets more red in the shoulders, but right now I'd say all female. #4 is 100% a pullet.

 

[debid]

Looks like 4 pullets to me!

 

[donrae]

I'm not seeing anything saying rooster at all.

 

[heathergreen]

Thanks everyone for looking...hopefully they are all girls.
Maybe these pics would help for the combs? You should be able to click the image to make it larger...

 

[heathergreen]

Maybe these photos will enlarge more when clicked to view the combs...

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[KieksterChicken]

Just going by combs 2 and 3 look like roos. Just waiting for the general consensus on yes or no on that.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I'm sexing by color, not comb. EEs are usually easy to sex by color but very hard to sex by comb. If they start getting any red patches in the shoulders, then they are most likely boys, but I don't see any obvious cockerels here. I'd keep an eye on #1 and reevaluate if it gets more red in the shoulders, but right now I'd say all female. #4 is 100% a pullet.

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[debid]

Just going by combs 2 and 3 look like roos. Just waiting for the general consensus on yes or no on that.

That's why I don't go by pea rows. To me, those look like there is a rose comb in the lineage, nothing more.