No idea on breed OR gender

[fierce_logic]

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.

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.

 

[fierce_logic]

Big red comb on the white chicken + 8 weeks old = cockerel.

Can't see the comb on the black chicken, so can't even guess as to gender. Could use better lighting for the black chicken too.

Thanks for the input, it is much appreciated. I’ll get better pictures of the others to post here shortly.

 

[fierce_logic]

Here are some better pictures (i hope) of some of the darker chickens, unsure of breed but figure they’re mostly (if not all) EEs. Trying to determine, primarily, which are roos…

 

[fierce_logic]

And the whites… I now believe three of which to be roos

 

[NatJ]

All the white ones look male to me.

For the dark ones, #2 and #8 look like maybe-males to me, but I would wait a bit longer to be sure of that, before making any final decisions. The others do not look like males to me at this time, but any slower-maturing males would not be obvious yet.

 

[fierce_logic]

All the white ones look male to me.

For the dark ones, #2 and #8 look like maybe-males to me, but I would wait a bit longer to be sure of that, before making any final decisions. The others do not look like males to me at this time, but any slower-maturing males would not be obvious yet.

Some better pics of #s 2 and 8… I suspect that both are gonna be male. Any ideas on breed or EE mix?

 

[NatJ]

Some better pics of #s 2 and 8… I suspect that both are gonna be male. Any ideas on breed or EE mix?

#8 is probably an EE (one of the ones that comes from EE x EE for so many generations that it doesn't look very much like any specific breed.)

#2 has me a bit puzzled. The feather coloring is making me think of a Speckled Sussex, but the leg color is wrong for that. Rhode Island Red or Production Red are obvious choices for any red chicken that has yellow legs, but I feel that there is too much black in the pattern, so that doesn't quite fit either.

There are a few lines of Easter Eggers now that look quite a lot like Rhode Island Reds or Red Sexlinks, so he might be one of that style of Easter Egger