Is it too early to tell...

[FluffyChic]

what Gender these are?

DD named "HER" Cutie, but her bursting tail feathers are making me wonder... is she's a he. (This is supposed to be an EE)

This one's name is Speckled, supposed to be a GLW-I think she's crossed w/ EE though

We bought 10 chicks in total, and some are like the first pics -really starting to feather out-more are actually like that. Some are tighter shorter feathers like the bottom pictures....does this have anything to do w/what sex they are? This is my first set of STRAIGHT RUN chicks. TIA!!

 

[trilyn]

Verrry cute!! It is a bit early to tell though. You might want to post more pics in about a month, and with EE's it'll still probably be too early, they're kind of hard to tell until they've gone through their teenage years and start getting in their adult feathers. I couldn't tell with mine till they had their adult feathers. Although, that is just me, there are others on here way more adept at me at sexing, so hang in there!!

 

[FluffyChic]

Thanks! Yes, I've heard EE are hard to tell. Plus I was reading on another post that pullets sometimes get their back/wing feathers and sprout a little tail feathers earlier than cockerals.

Hoping there is some truth in that....as I have more feathered that way. We'll see, and time will tell for sure.

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

i heard you could tell by the wing feather tips... if theyre choppy and not even its a roo if theyre even and smooth its a hen so going by that, the top would be a hen.. but thats what i heard

 

[Illia]

I think it is safe to say the EE is a girl. Any EE with the sort of partridge-type coloring is hard to say at a chick-age, but most turn out to be pullets. Now, if the chick had a lot of white - It would be a cockerel. We tend to find that even the partridge-wheaten looking cockerels are a much lighter chipmunk color when chicks compared to the chipmunk-hens.