Sexing 6 week old Easter Eggers - first timer needing help!

Barred4Life

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So I got myself a few Easter Egger chicks 6 weeks ago and I've been reading up on how to sex them. I read about the comb...the males having 3 rows of bumps and the females 1. Also I read about the females having a more uniform colouring and the roos being more splotchy. So I have guessed the sex of mine, but given it's my first time with these, I thought I'd seek out help from people with experience.
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To me they all look very similar to each other!

So let's the with the white ones. I have two, and I'm thinking one is a cockerel and one a pullet...but again this is pure guess from what I've read!

This one looks like a cockerel to me...check out the beard, haha!
#1




Now this one has similar colouring although the patterns seems more uniform...but the comb is different, so I'm guessing pullet?
#2






Then I have a few orange ones. Same thing I'll start with the one I think is a cockerel.
#3






This one looks very similar to #3 but the comb on this one is like bird #2...so I', hoping it's a pullet?
#4





#5 - I think I got sold a Crested one? It's got no beard, but a little afro going on. I'm guessing pullet on this one...well more like I'm wishing for pullet because I really like the feathering.




So any advise or tips would be appreciated.Thanks!
 
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So #1 cockerel, I agree.

#5 Looks pullet-ish for sure (interesting EE...I've only seen a few with crests! Maybe it isn't an EE? There are obscure crested breeds here and there).
 
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Ok, it must mean I spend too much time on this website if I'm able to guess the sex right, the first time around.
It's #4 that I'm unsure about the most, I have another orange EE that looks pullet for sure, and it's colouring is not close to #4.

#6


 
So #1 cockerel, I agree.

#5 Looks pullet-ish for sure (interesting EE...I've only seen a few with crests! Maybe it isn't an EE? There are obscure crested breeds here and there).
It is an EE, as I am the breeder of them :) They are Creted EEs. Mama lays a tealish colour egg, and the father is your average EE.


Mom

Here is a nest of eggs. The bluish ones are hers (except the very small blue, that is a bantam AM)
The green are NN eggs


Here's the father.
 
I agree that numbers one and three are boys, and in my opinion number 4 looks like a boy, too. Pretty confidant that numbers 2 and 5 are girls.
 

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