hen or rooster? breed?

[Stacey Adele]

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me the sex and breed of this 2 month old chicken? I'm hoping for a hen! We have 19 in total and they all either have very small combs, or very large combs, but this one and one other have this in-between sized comb.
Thanks!!

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'll go with Easter Egger cockerel

 

[MountainWoman73]

Looks like a female Easter Egger

It does, but they said it's only 8-9 weeks old. At 9 weeks that's a cockerel.

 

[Stacey Adele]

Oh dear, mixed reviews! So it's not just me, and it is hard to tell, sometimes. How about this one? Like I said, there are some that are very obvious, but these bunched-up comb ones, with no wattles... it's hard to tell! I guess this is another Easter Egger? Do they always have fluffy cheeks? Do the rooster Easter Eggers not have wattles?

 

[AinaWGSD]

Are we sure about the age? At 8-9 weeks this would probably be a cockerel too but the comb size and color is the only thing making me think that.

This is my easter egger pullet at 10 weeks, you can see how much smaller and paler her comb is compared to your birds.

As to breed, both of the birds pictured have some feathers on their shanks so I would suspect olive eggers (with a dark brown egg gene from marans)vs "regular" easter Eggers.

Easter egger is a catch all term for a mixed breed that has a potential to carry a blue egg gene (hens may lay blue or green eggs). There are many ways to make them, but ameraucana/americauna mixes are one of the most common. They often inherit beards/muffs from the ameraucana genes which reduces the size of the wattles so it often appears they don't have any.

 

[Stacey Adele]

Are we sure about the age? At 8-9 weeks this would probably be a cockerel too but the comb size and color is the only thing making me think that.
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This is my easter egger pullet at 10 weeks, you can see how much smaller and paler her comb is compared to your birds.

As to breed, both of the birds pictured have some feathers on their shanks so I would suspect olive eggers (with a dark brown egg gene from marans)vs "regular" easter Eggers.

Easter egger is a catch all term for a mixed breed that has a potential to carry a blue egg gene (hens may lay blue or green eggs). There are many ways to make them, but ameraucana/americauna mixes are one of the most common. They often inherit beards/muffs from the ameraucana genes which reduces the size of the wattles so it often appears they don't have any.

Wow! You know your stuff. I *think* the rooster for all of our chickens, may have been a pure-breed Copper Maran, based on what I recall from the person I bought the hatching eggs from (and yes, we're certain on the hatching date). I may be wrong about that too. There may be more than one father (I tried to follow up with her after hatching for more info, but never heard back). And the eggs were a whole slew of colors, so I mistakenly thought they would lay a whole slew of colors. Newbie.
Do you think the first bird I posted pics of is also a rooster?

 

[nuthatched]

Both birds are cockerels

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

2 cockerels. Most likely Easter Egger or Ameraucana, or mixed with those breeds.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Yeah, combs that big and bright at that age are cockerels. If the father was a marans all of the chicks should have inherited a brown egg gene. Depending what egg genes they inherited from their mother you probably will get a variety of brown and green eggs.

 

[ChickensEverywhere]

The first one looks very similar to my sapphire olive egger hen, but the comb is bigger and the legs are thicker so I think it's a male.