I know I'm a chicken, but that's about it!

[ChickenChatten]

Yep! Nuggets a hen, I wouldn't say she's an Easter Egger though

 

[ESofVA]

Yep, at that age pullets don't have such a large comb. I am sorry you got so many boys.

I am not the one that got sooo many roos. I recently got my order of chicks and the St Run chicks are pretty 50/50 and my sex-links are of course all pullets so I lucked out. Just hoping my Appenzellers are as evenly distributed and wondering when the can be sexed.

 

[allhisblessings]

Yep! Nuggets a hen, I wouldn't say she's an Easter Egger though

Really? What makes you say that? I was kinda thinking it made sense...

 

[allhisblessings]

I am not the one that got sooo many roos. I recently got my order of chicks and the St Run chicks are pretty 50/50 and my sex-links are of course all pullets so I lucked out. Just hoping my Appenzellers are as evenly distributed and wondering when the can be sexed.

I'm thinking I might need to try getting chicks that have already been sexed next time instead of hatching eggs and crossing my fingers!
Our problem is that we are now really attached to this gang considering how emotionally invested we became through watching them incubate, worrying, watching them hatch, worrying, watching them grow for 5 weeks... You get the idea

 

[allhisblessings]

yes thats a pea comb and it being black and having yellow feet bottoms, leads me to say that its a sumatra

I was thinking over this comment of yours and it led me to the question: Is there a male pea comb and a female pea comb? Or is there only one type?

 

[ChickenChatten]

Well I am definitely no expert to say whether she is an Easter Egger or not, I'm pretty new to chickens myself, and Nugget has the greenish legs like Easter Eggers do, but what color of an egg did she hatch from?

 

[allhisblessings]

Well I am definitely no expert to say whether she is an Easter Egger or not, I'm pretty new to chickens myself, and Nugget has the greenish legs like Easter Eggers do, but what color of an egg did she hatch from?

Er...um... you know, I remember Nugget came out of a "whitish" egg. That doesn't mean it wasn't slightly tinted, but none of the batch of eggs looked like a real Easter Egger color to me. I have an Easter Egger chicken laying now and her eggs look like this:





But I could also be totally ignorant about Easter Egger egg colors.

 

[ChickenChatten]

Sorry, I don't know if she's an Easter Egger or not, I'm still trying to catch on to this myself... Sorry!

 

[allhisblessings]

Sorry, I don't know if she's an Easter Egger or not, I'm still trying to catch on to this myself... Sorry!

Don't apologize! I'm merely trying to satisfy my curiosity and collect brain cells on being a smarter chicken owner! I value everyone's input.

 

[allhisblessings]

Okay here's the gang's six week old photos:



Smokie



Checkers




Nugget



Uno




Penny......little booger wouldn't stay put, just as my battery dies!