Is my EE a hen or a roo?

[recyclegecko17]

She is now 5 1/2 weeks old and is the same size as my other chicks of the same age. Alot of people seem to say that black and white EE's are male. But she has different coloring than a lot of EE roosters. Thanks for your help.

 

[maran man 32]

She's definitely a pullet but strange because that's typically a color for EE boys

 

[Hedera]

She's definitely a pullet but strange because that's typically a color for EE boys

x2

That is awful strange, I agree

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

X3, pullet.

I've seen one other black and white EE pullet, but it's definitely a rare color for a female.

 

[recyclegecko17]

Thank you guys so much!!!!! That makes me feel much better. I was worries she was a roo. I bought her thinking she was an americauna, but then she ended up not looking like any of the pics of them

 

[Kev]

There is absolutely nothing in chicken genetics to make all black and white EE males. Your bird is a pullet.

The closest thing would be using silver (what makes black and white in chickens) for sex linked matings- if you breed a gold(brown and black) roo to silver hens, all male chicks will be in black and white tones and females in brown and black tones. No idea if any hatcheries are using this method with their EE stock.


However- if you breed a black and white EE roo with brownish EE hens, you WILL get lots of black and white pullets.

 

[recyclegecko17]

Thats really interesting. That's good to know. The hatcheries should use that method, it would make it much easier to tell from the start.

 

[Kev]

The con would be less color variety. Many people love the color variety in their EE.. using silver for sex linking would limit all pullets from hatchery to be in the gold series colors.

Using vent sexing- what they do for many breeds anyways- would maintain wider color diversity for every one especially those who don't or can't breed their own birds.

I think that pullet above is very pretty, because she has that pattern in silver. Gold in that same pattern just is not as pretty...

 

[recyclegecko17]

Oh that makes sense. Thank you, I think she is pretty too

 

[AKhen]

I'm new to this and have a blue EE roo, with blue, white, black and brown-black EE hens. So if I breed the blue roo on my girls what will I get?