Help with my EE's-Sex ??

[chicka1975]

Pretty lady! I was referring to the one you thought was the rooster!

?? What made you make that call? Just curious... Because of the coloring? It doesn't have much of a comb.THANKS!

 

[fshinggrl]

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Ahh.. ok. I think it is a rooster because of the coloring coming in and the comb.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Black/white EE males will usually get some reddish colored feathers in the wing area.

Like this (not my picture):
here

 

[Emilyhc]

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Mine is 6 weeks old. Waiting to see if she crows...

 

[coloradowildflower]

I'm with the majority: A is a boy and B is a girl. From what I've read, male EEs are usually unevenly marked, while females show a more even pattern. Unfortunately, that held true with my now confirmed little roo . . .

 

[Pele]

Ok, I'm going to be totally useless to the topic here and say that your garden is drop dead lovely! Oh man, I'd kill to have that kind of fountain set-up behind my house! I'd die there of relaxation.

The chickens just complete the picture of nirvana! Kudos!

 

[SIMPleChick]

HI! Yeah, you have a little boy and a little girl! Here are my 2, 6 week old Brother and sister! Opposite colors from yours but like the #13 post said, my little boy has the red/brown feathers typical boys of this colors get! Good luck, they are adorable!!!

He hasn't crowd yet, and I just sold him, so the new family is just waiting for him to become a man!! Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!!!!

 

[wpalmisano]

Its hard to sex them from the pics, and sometimes it takes awhile. One reliable way I can tell as they near the 8 week mark are spur nubs, which are almost always roos.

 

[CindyJeann]

you can sex EEs at 5-6 weeks by the comb, girl's combs will have a single line of bumps and boys will have three lines.

My boy at 5 weeks is just getting his three lines of bumps...

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I agree with FishingGirl - B is a pullet, A is a roo - both coloring and comb size/color give it away.


More males than female have the 3-row pea combs, but you cannot tell a male EE just by the rows on the comb. It's the size and color of the comb that is important, not the number of rows.


Here's one of my female EEs that had the wider, 3 row comb (I've had a couple with this type of comb)

6 weeks - it's hard to see, but her comb was wide and starting to get rows, while the other EE girls had narrow, combs, although if she had been a male, the comb would have been bigger than this.

Before she started laying - 3 distinct rows still, but a male would have had a much larger comb by this age

After she started laying - comb changed again