Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

[KnittedInk]

Hello I am new to this forum and I was wondering about one of my Easter Egger chicks. It is currently 8 weeks old, the smallest of my 6, and was the last one to get feathers.

 

[QueenMisha]

Hello I am new to this forum and I was wondering about one of my Easter Egger chicks. It is currently 8 weeks old, the smallest of my 6, and was the last one to get feathers.

Kinda iffy but I'd lean towards pullet. Of course EEs are always the ones that get me.

 

[cmccullough1390]

Hello I am new to this forum and I was wondering about one of my Easter Egger chicks. It is currently 8 weeks old, the smallest of my 6, and was the last one to get feathers.

Still looks like a pullet sometimes they just grow slightly slower I have a runt EE hen and she's got a lot of spunk there's no pink and no clear rooster features I'd say keep an eye on it he or she will tell you eventually

 

[memrymaker]

What are your thoughts on this EE? I was hoping it was a girl, but am concerned due to the bright red on the comb (which has been there a month or so already). He/she is 9.5 weeks old. This bird definitely acts like a rooster, Is there is a shred of hope for a pullet still?

 

[QueenMisha]

What are your thoughts on this EE? I was hoping it was a girl, but am concerned due to the bright red on the comb (which has been there a month or so already). He/she is 9.5 weeks old. This bird definitely acts like a rooster, Is there is a shred of hope for a pullet still?

100% cockerel

 

[2xchicks]

Pullet or cockerel?

 

[junebuggena]

Pullet or cockerel?

Pullet.

 

[WVduckchick]

Wanting to check my mini-flock. 11 weeks old.

1 - EE


2 - Buff Orp


3 - Lav Orp


4 - Welsummer


5 - Barred Rock


6-7 Silkies


8- RIR

I know everyone has said pullets, but on the lav orp, for 11 weeks, I'm thinking cockerel.

 

[WVduckchick]

Ok, this is a breed question instead of gender. I'm 99% sure its a pullet, but my confusion is the mix. Father is definitely bantam cochin, blue, frizzled. Mother is either a full bantam cuckoo cochin, OR a Chocolate orpington. The cuckoo cochin was the broody that hatched the chicks. She was on 4 of her own eggs, 3 eggs from my 2 chocolate orpingtons, and 1 egg from a silkie (very poorly bred silkie). All 8 eggs hatched. I know which chick came from the silkie egg. The silkie chick is very obvious. So this particular chick had to come from a cochin egg or a chocolate orp egg, but I don't know where the beard/muffs came from! The other slim possibility is that I was wrong about the eggs, and maybe I had another silkie egg confused with a cochin egg, and a silkie mothered this chick. My silkies did throw some bearded chicks, when mated by the same cochin cock.

So which is more likely, that I was wrong about the eggs? Or that one of my cochins or choc orps are carrying some strange genes? If you'd like pics of the possible parents, I can post some.

Now after typing this up, and looking at my own pics, I'm thinking it must have come from one of the silkies.

 

[junebuggena]

Ok, this is a breed question instead of gender. I'm 99% sure its a pullet, but my confusion is the mix. Father is definitely bantam cochin, blue, frizzled. Mother is either a full bantam cuckoo cochin, OR a Chocolate orpington. The cuckoo cochin was the broody that hatched the chicks. She was on 4 of her own eggs, 3 eggs from my 2 chocolate orpingtons, and 1 egg from a silkie (very poorly bred silkie). All 8 eggs hatched. I know which chick came from the silkie egg. The silkie chick is very obvious. So this particular chick had to come from a cochin egg or a chocolate orp egg, but I don't know where the beard/muffs came from! The other slim possibility is that I was wrong about the eggs, and maybe I had another silkie egg confused with a cochin egg, and a silkie mothered this chick. My silkies did throw some bearded chicks, when mated by the same cochin cock.

So which is more likely, that I was wrong about the eggs? Or that one of my cochins or choc orps are carrying some strange genes? If you'd like pics of the possible parents, I can post some.

Now after typing this up, and looking at my own pics, I'm thinking it must have come from one of the silkies.

The muff/beard gene is dominant. It doesn't hide. One of the parents must be muffed to produce this chick.