Hoping this is a hen and not a roo...

[buzymom13]

Here's one of our 7 week old EE's. I know it's difficult to tell w/EE's but I'm wanting some opinions. The comb looks like a single row and sorta yellowish orange... Lil Chicken Nugget is one of the bigger chicks and has feathered out quicker than a couple of the others.

Tell me what ya think? (Hoping she's a she not a he)

Lil Nugget getting a drink

side view

I'm waiting to hear from all you chicken smart people out there!

Thankx!

 

[Camelot Farms]

I am going with cockerel.... sorry!

 

[HathawayHens]

well, I was gonna say pullet... but that just may be me wanting every EE to be a pullet so that mine (that everyone thinks is a roo) will be too.

 

[Southernbelle]

I just wanted to mention that I bought 6 EEs one year - all sexed pullets. Quite a few of them started getting pink in their comb by 7 weeks old, one had slow growing tail feathers - they all ended up being pullets. Comb color is one of the most inexact ways to sex EEs. Can you get a clearer side view so we can look for saddle or hackle feathers?

 

[buzymom13]

Ok...Here's a full body and side view of Lil Chicken Nugget...

Hope it helps.

closer up view

 

[Southernbelle]

The tail feathers and the stance suggest roo. The way his tail feathers are growing in longer and slightly pointed at the ends looks more like a cockrel. I don't see any saddle, hackle or sickle feathers, yet, so I'm not 100% convinced. Here's to hoping for a pullet!

 

[klf73]

cockeral

those sickle feathers won't show up for a few more weeks

 

[Happy Chooks]

I agree, cockeral.

 

[Iluvmypeeps]

So, if a chicken's tail is pointed and facing downward, it is likely to be a rooster?

Please tell me no, because I have a 'hen' with a tail like that, while the other hens don't.

 

[buzymom13]

Thankx for your input guys/gals. I'm hoping that if it is a roo it can get along with my silkie roo who's older by a bit. So far there aren't any issues...they've all been housed together for awhile now.

Maybe it'll surprise me and lay an egg?!