Hen or Rooster?

[KieksterChicken]

Ty for the head shots. : )
I say pullet. She has a good size pea comb but it's a single row which indicates pullet. If it had 3 vertical parallel rows of "peas" it would indicate rooster. Here's a link that will help for future reference. http://www.homegrowngourmet.org/how...crow-gender-identification-in-young-chickens/

 

[donrae]

Yep, I'm now thinking pullet.

 

[molinda]

Well Surprise Surprise Surprise...... She layed her first Egg today.... It's the greenish one.

 

[molinda]

The other ones are Rose and Dori's eggs.

Thanks for all your replys.

 

[Odelia]

I am glad she didn't accidently get rehomed for not looking girly enough. Enjoy your lovely green eggs.

 

[KieksterChicken]

Congrats on her first egg! EE's lay such pretty presents. I love thrilling my non-chicken educated friends with the blue eggs I get from my 2 EE's : )

 

[gander007]

She looks just like my EE pullet's

 

[troy4]

Trying to figure out if this is rooster or hen...can someone please tell...thanks

its a hen it doesn't have a large cone nor a curling tailfeather

 

[troy4]

if its got a beard its a ee or amerucuna

 

[KieksterChicken]

It's already been determined that the chicken in question is a hen as it is laying, and it's an Easter Egger as it has a beard and muff but yellow legs. Ameraucanas don't have yellow legs. Hens can have curly tail feathers also just shorter than a roosters. What you really should say when you are talking about a rooster Troy4 is that a bird that doesn't have long glossy sickle feathers in it's tail is not a rooster but a hen. Also, there are quite a few breeds of chickens where the rooster has a small rather than a large comb (comb, not cone). Ameraucanas being 1 example. To differentiate a rooster from a hen as far as comb goes the roosters comb will almost always be a bit larger and redder than the hens of the same breed but his comb might be smaller than the comb of a hen from a different breed. Example, Ameraucana rooster comb vs a Rhode Island Red hens comb. The Rhode Island Red hen will have a larger comb..