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

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I don't know if your chicken is a hen or rooster, I'm just trying to say that the type (3-row or single pea comb) is not an accurate sex-determining factor. I don't have any roosters, but based on what I've heard from others, I'm guessing that most of them have the 3-row comb. I'm wanting to let people know that some of the hens have that type of comb too.

This is the same EE as pictured above (with the 3-row pea comb) 2 1/2 weeks later (22 1/2 weeks of age), the week she started laying. Her comb changed a lot in those couple weeks.

Both hens together - very similar (age 22 1/2 weeks), but different comb types:

Here's a close-up of another one of my EE pullets at 23 weeks of age with a single row pea comb (a few days before she laid her first egg). This is just an example of the difference in combs once they reach maturity.

 

[frogs n chickens]

I hope she is a she, as i have 4 that look just like her and 1 obvious roo with bright red comb at 14 weeks.

 

[ResidentEvilRock]

Sure! I don't mind posting a pic of him! Here you go!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Oh wow, he's purdy!

 

[CarriBrown]

That is a hen. EEs always have that "roo" look in their eyes.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Wow! What a gorgeous rooster! Lucky you.

You can see the difference between a pullet and roo at his age by looking at the hackle and sickle feathers. My pullets/hens don't have feathers like that.

 

[ResidentEvilRock]

I had him in a pen but he got out one day while I was trying to feed him. He was so happy and making those excited noises I just couldn't put him back in the pen. 2 months later he's nothing but a pet. We have to fight to keep him outside the house! He'll walk right in the door like nothing! Hahaha. He roosts on top of my main coop at night. It's really high up so nothing can get him. Plus, I have a Great Pyrenese watching over the whole flock as well.


Another thing! I'm in my garden fairly often, (where the pic was taken), and he will stay RIGHT under your feet while you are digging up dirt. He'll stay right there until you dig him up a worm!

 

[cwilliams]

He did get in a fight and win with the cinnamon queen rooster.
He's just a really funny pet. He's always trying to molest the shoes. He offers you food by bringing it to you and setting it at your feet. He just started crowing but he also tries to lays an egg when you are watching him. He runs to you when you come outside. Follows your car when you come home or leave. We can still pick him up and love on him. He will eagerly mount males or females and even tried the dog once when she was laying. He'll come inside the house if you don't shut the door fast enough.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

He sounds totally confused.

 

[speckledhen]

The three rows on the comb only works when they are very young. Later on, pullets' other two rows will come up usually, if they do come out at all. Some have that, some do not. The males get the three rows much, much earlier, like five or six weeks.