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fierce_logic
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- Apr 24, 2023
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Thank you! I appreciate all the info!! And yes, I was afraid of that… the behaviors of this one are also far more feisty than most of the others so I was suspecting it might be male. Will post better pictures of the others shortly.Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not. Easter Egger just means the females are supposed to lay blue or green eggs, and the chicken does not belong to any specific pure breed.
Many EEs look like wanna-be Ameraucanas, just not quite the right feather color or foot color or similar points. But some others look very different.
Beard in chickens has nothing to do with gender. A few breeds have it, and many other breeds do not. That is part of why he "looks like" an Easter Egger: beards are common in Easter Eggers, and he's obviously wrong for the other common breeds that could have beards (wrong color for Salmon Faverolles, wrong feathers for Silkie, no crest for Polish, feather color and foot color wrong for actual Ameraucana, and so on for the other bearded breeds.)
But a big red comb on a chick of that age is a good sign that the chick is a male.