Help with Sex of 10-week-old EE

[Cockaloos]

Flo is 2 and a half months old and has always been the biggest chick in our mixed flock (eight total, each a diff breed: coronation sussex, black copper maran, barnevelder, norweigan jaerhon, ameraucana, marraduna basque, silver penciled rock) but has always seemed hen-like to us novices (low to the ground, motherly to littler ones, didn't get much in the way of wattles till recently). Then this morning she made several noises that were sort of cockadoodle-doo like. Any giveaways here on gender? (Pics taken today)

 

[flockmomma]

Just for comparison, and remembering that roos tend to have bigger, more pronounced combs/wattles: even my confirmed 15 week old EE roo doesn't have that pronounced a comb. If my roo is developing wattles, they are hidden in his muff. Yet mine is undeniably a Roo.

 

[flockmomma]

You mention also some very specific breeds, so I have to ask, where did you get them? Do you think Flo is an EE or a true Ameraucana? And is that red coming in on the shoulders, or red glare? I've only ever had EE, both bantams and standards, so I am not really familiar with Ameraucanas.

 

[stephaniemiko]

OMG! What a beautiful bird!! Funny, my 10 week old "Margaret" made a very un-ladylike noise this morning, too! She might be telling me she's Mike.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

For an EE to have a comb like that at only 10 weeks, coupled with the red coming out in the shoulders (dead give-away for cockerel)--that's a boy. If you look closely, you'll even see curved saddle feathers starting to come in in front of the tail.

Pretty bird.

 

[chickenluver555]

Ugh EE's are so hard to determine the gender!!!
My EE's have been driving me crazy. They are 16 weeks and I still have no idea. I would say that yours is possible a roo cuz of the red on the shoulders and that comb is lookin large for such a young guy.
He/She is very pretty though. WOW

 

[chickenluver555]

This is my suspected Roo. 15 weeks old in these pics. Can anyone help?

 

[questions543]

@op- that is %100 roo

chicken luver thzt is a pullet

 

[Cockaloos]

Definitely red on the shoulders. So roo then.
*tears*

I was told weeks ago that Flo was not an Ameraucana bc of the yellow not green legs so people were thinking EE. At any rate, to Craigslist I go...

And @flockmama, we got her(him!) and the rest from a new shop here in Oakland, California that sells heritage and rare breeds (Pollinate Farm & Garden). They are all sourced to a breeder here in town.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

This is my suspected Roo. 15 weeks old in these pics. Can anyone help?

This is a pullet.

Most EEs are actually very, very easy to sex. You just have to forget what you know about other breeds, ignore the comb/wattles for the most part, and concentrate on the feather patterns. The very smooth, all-over partridge pattern (a darker or lighter head/neck is fine) of your pullet? Clearly female. The patchy color pattern of the OP's cockerel with red coming in on the shoulders? Male.

And with EEs, any red/large comb before 15-16 weeks is probably male, as well.