Partridge cochin and EE questions of gender........

[porteryork]

Okay, beginning to worry a bit about these two.

This is Shirley my EE. She was named for Shirley Muldowny the racer since she looks like a speedy girl.

This is Chris my partridge cochin who is gorgeous but ???????

 

[silkieluver_07]

Is Shirley starting to develope saddle feathers? So far she looks like a pullet, but EE's always fool me. I almost positive that Chris is a handsome cockeral.

 

[pkeeler]

Chris is a very handsome rooster

 

[CarriBrown]

That's a rooster.

 

[Bec]

I think Shirley is a girl and Chris is a roo!!

 

[porteryork]

Thanks everyone. My guess was that Shirley was a pullet after looking at everybody's EE pics. I had noticed irrridescent feathers on Chris and began to be afraid that "she" was a roo. She is so gorgeous. I do hope my next batch is all girls! It is so hard to love these babies and then have them be roos.

I may keep Chris though. He doesn't crow and is very mild and is smaller than all my girls.

 

[verycherry]

One of my EE's started getting longer saddle feathers than the others, and in a couple more weeks, longer hackle feathers and a bright red comb. The undeniable crow came next! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Right now, except for the questionable saddle feathers, it looks like a girl.

Is Chris a bantam cochin? He's so small and compact compared to my cochin cockerel. Very cute!

 

[porteryork]

Chris is a bantam partridge cochin and I am so sad because "she' is just so beautiful but he has always been hard to catch and a bit of a lone ranger. This is just killing me because I just went through this with my BLRW.

 

[verycherry]

Have you googled what a bantam cochin roo looks like at that age? Chris is so much more compact than my male and is shaped more like my female, but like I said, I have the standard ones so...

I hope everyone is wrong, and it turns out Chris is a girl.

 

[silkieluvr]

I am pretty sure that shirley is a pullet, but I think chris is a roo