Sold 11 roos & kept this one - did we keep the right one? EE @ 9wks.

[chickenguysmom]

What do you think?

 

[CarriBrown]

Can you get a picture of the hackle feathers? If they are pointy, all signs are roo. Round feathers are a hen.

 

[sunnibunny99]

Shes BEAUTIFUL!

Hopefully she...

 

[Andora]

I think it looks like a roo.

The roosters have 3 ridges on their pea comb and the pullets only have one, and that bird has a wide reddening comb. My pullets had no color at all until they were pretty close to laying. Also, the coloring is pretty solid on your bird and I have noticed that the chipmunky looking ones end up being pullets and the more solid ones end up as roosters. (Excluding colorings like solid white Ameraucanas of course!)

I will never order straight run again! I ordered the top hat special from Ideal last fall and all six of my crested birds were roosters and had to be rehomed. What a waste of money!!

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Why, Speckled Hen, oh why?. I respect your opinion too much to tell you that you are mistaken. I have watched you guess correctly for quite sometime, and know that you are spot on about these things.

Tell me though, are you sure or is there hope? Maybe just a tiny-teeny bit of hope, like a small shreadlette of hope. Not for me but for DD.

Oh, I'm not always right, trust me! I raised Ameraucanas for awhile and when the comb is really wide like that and red at that age, it's rarely a pullet, however, sometimes the little rule-breakers can fool you, so nothing is 100% certain till it's older.

I have a couple of those rule breakers

I thought for sure they were roos till I had green eggs in the nests. I say a pullet. My EE roos have had very pointy tail feathers by that age. The feathers in the photo look like all my pullets - round.

 

[Creativedogma]

I'm on board with the genetics thing...oh how I wish we knew ahead of time.

If I end up with any more roos I am sticking to only sex links next time..........

 

[chickenguysmom]

Thank you everyone for looking. This one has me stumped. Acts like a hen. Looks mostly like a hen but that comb. Boy, does it have me worried.

But you know something weird? In a strange way, I like not knowing...... It's like prolonging Christmas..... just can't wait.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

Will I have 7 EE chicks. I am so far sure that I have 3 roo's just by the color of the comb area. They are 4 weeks old. Also on your's the tail set is rooish to me. I had one that I could tell early on by the way he held his tail. Sorry........I hope that your EE fools us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Some pullets have 3 ridges, instead of one - this is a pic of one of my pullets:

 

[everythingjane]

I was just thrilled to see this last photo.. thank you so much for posting!

I have a Marans/Ameracuana chick, supposedly pullet, with these three ridges and I was wondering about this being the correct ancestry since I'd never seen an EE with this comb.. but the chick hatched from a marans egg AND has ear tufts.. I'm hoping it's a pullet because I've been trying to get some olive eggers. Do you ever see roosters with the three ridges? The only thing that has me wondering is that out of this group of 4, this is the only one that play fights with little roo that's probably a couple weeks younger.

Edited to say.. I reread the previous post that roosters do have the three ridges.. Which I guess doesn't look good for my fiesty chick