Need help with determining chicks' gender

[bloom_ss]

These chicks were sold as Ameraucanas, but from what I have read here they are considered EE chicks. They were hatched on June 15th so they are about 4 weeks old now. They are supposed to be all pullets, and I really hope they are because we aren't allowed to have any roosters here in town. Is it too early to tell with them still?? Here are some pictures I have taken of them:

This is the one the kids have named Friendly...the only one that isn't scared to death of us.

Chick #2 (the only one that looks totally different from the others):

Chick #3:

Chick #4:

Chick #5:

Chick #6:

So is there any way to tell if any of them are roosters?? Thanks for your help!!

~Stephanie

 

[hcppam]

EE's are all going to look different because their mixes, as far as boy/girl to early for me.

 

[Saltysteele]

the latest trick i've been cued into is to look at the saddle feathers. they are the feathers that lay on the back, the tips of which lay where the tail feathers grow out of on the tail.

if they're long and thin, roosters. if they're shorter and round, they're hens

 

[debid]

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Except that these chicks are too young to have them... My EE cockerel started to get his pointy saddle feathers around 11 weeks and he was early.

They all look like pullets so far but it's early.

 

[Saltysteele]

yeah, i didn't even know about the saddle feather sexing until a day or so ago, so i wasn't paying attention to when they came in.

everything i've read, though, states EE's are difficult to sex early

 

[Magic Birdie]

pretty sure friendly is a girl...

 

[kittykittykitty]

Dude u could tell from day 1 if u feather sexed!!!

 

[featherz]

friendly looks like a girl. Chick #2 also looks like a possible girl - the colors are very similar to an older one I have that I feel pretty sure is a girl at 15 weeks. As for saddle feathers, those come in at around 13+ weeks (my EE roo is just getting them in and he's 15 weeks old). Feather sexing only works on certain chicks - fast feathered paired with slow feathered, IIRC. It's a bit too early to tell with EE's - but so far so good.

 

[Lothiriel]

They all look like pullets to me. Coloring looks like a pullet's and the combs would be big and red with 3 rows ...

Here's one of my 4 week EE roos...


and a comb shot...