Please ease my mind, is Ester the EE really a she?

[Year of the Rooster]

That is a pullet. For some reason the EE's always look a little... "masculine"

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I heard that also, but you can't count on it for sexing EEs. These photos show 2 of my EE pullets at the exact same age - one has the single row pea comb - the other has the 3-row pea comb. They are both now laying eggs.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I agree with all the pullet replies - she's definitely a girl.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

I guess that would explain why my roo tries his best to mate with her.

She's wants nothing to do with a yucky roo at this point

and, good thing for her, is too fast for him.

 

[ResidentEvilRock]

I bought an Americauna that looks just like yours. I was under the impression it was a she. I've had her for a WHOLE year before HE started crowing. His comb NEVER grew, NEVER crowed. Then I was out in my garden a few weeks ago and he was out there digging up the worms I threw at him and all of a sudden he just crowed right in my face! THEN in a few weeks his comb just grew out of nowhere. BUT, I think he's a bit...confused? He crows and struts like a rooster, BUT, he tries to lay an egg also!! He just sits in a nest with his chest all puffed up like he's broody! I think he's on the fence mentally....


Anyone else's Americauana's genderly confused?

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Do you have a rooster? If not, many people on here have said that a hen can become rooster-like... I guess someone has to have that role.

 

[Judy]

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Oh no -- you mean that mean, hackle raising, chicken pecking, attack dinosaur of mine that was scheduled for fried chicken might LAY EGGS??!!! Sheesh....

 

[ResidentEvilRock]

I'm pretty sure he's a rooster. Got a good-sized comb and crows plenty. But from time to time, he'll puff up his chest in a clump of grass and just sit there like he's trying to lay....

 

[Damummis]

SHE looks just like my Ruby.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Interesting - can you post a picture? Some hens crow when there is no rooster around, but I'd think it would have laid an egg by now if it was a hen.

My production red, which has been laying eggs regularly, has decided to mount the younger black stars we integrated into the flock. Almost every day, I see her jump on at least one of their backs and bite the feathers on their heads - basically looks like she is mating with them, but I'm guessing it's just a dominance thing. She's the only chicken that does this, but thankfully, she still lays eggs. We don't have a rooster, so it wasn't learned behavior.