Is this Easter Egger Chick a Frizzle?

[Cerise1924]

These babies are just five days old, but I have heard some BYCers say that can spot a frizzle this early.

I hatched them from shipped eggs that came from an Easter Egger pen that has a couple of frizzle roos in it. I have notice that the wing feathers on these chicks look different.
-Stormfly, the chipmunk chick, has wing feathers that lay flat against the body.
-Heather, the dark chick, has wing feathers that curve outward.

Is this an indication that Heather is a frizzle?

Thanks for any input you can give.

-Cerise

 

[Gray Farms]

Very likely that its going to be frizzled. Another week you'll be able to tell with no doubt.

 

[Cerise1924]

Very likely that its going to be frizzled. Another week you'll be able to tell with no doubt.

Thanks so much for your reply! I've never had an Easter Egger or a frizzle, so I'm very excited about all this.

I'll keep watching those feathers.

 

[Cerise1924]

Now, two of them are looking frizzled to me!

 

[Serenity06]

Yes it looks like they could both be frizzled. So cute!

 

[Cerise1924]

Yes it looks like they could both be frizzled. So cute!

Thank you!!

I love these little fuzzies. Hope one is a pullet.

 

[oregonkat]

Thank you!!

I love these little fuzzies. Hope one is a pullet.

I just hatched (9 days ago) two frizzled easter eggers and they both feathered up really quickly and had irregular wing feather lengths perhaps indicating pullets for both? Any thoughts on whether this could be true?

 

[Cerise1924]

I just hatched (9 days ago) two frizzled easter eggers and they both feathered up really quickly and had irregular wing feather lengths perhaps indicating pullets for both? Any thoughts on whether this could be true?

Congratulations! I am new to both frizzles and Easter Eggers, but from what I understand, Easter Eggers cannot be reliably sexed by the wing-feather method. It's a specific genetic link that shows up in certain breeds, in lines that have that specific fast-vs-slow feathering gene. Using that method, I thought I had identified two Brahma pullets, and those turned out to be the boys!

My EEs are 3 weeks old, and they are keeping me guessing!

I've heard that some EEs have no wattles at all, and right now, there are no combs yet, either! The only things I have to go on are the size of the legs, and behaviour... but now I learn that pullets can fight and chest-bump, too. Keep me posted on your frizzles.

 

[oregonkat]

Congratulations! I am new to both frizzles and Easter Eggers, but from what I understand, Easter Eggers cannot be reliably sexed by the wing-feather method. It's a specific genetic link that shows up in certain breeds, in lines that have that specific fast-vs-slow feathering gene. Using that method, I thought I had identified two Brahma pullets, and those turned out to be the boys!

My EEs are 3 weeks old, and they are keeping me guessing!

I've heard that some EEs have no wattles at all, and right now, there are no combs yet, either! The only things I have to go on are the size of the legs, and behaviour... but now I learn that pullets can fight and chest-bump, too. Keep me posted on your frizzles.

Here are my two frizzles! Both enjoying fresh grass and dirt for breakfast, delicious I tell you!

 

[drumstick diva]

What color legs do your frizzles have? I'm wondering if they are cochins instead of EE's. Any recognizable comb type forming???