Speckled Sussex & olive egger: Pullets or Roos ?

[lutherpug]

I have a Speckled Sussex about 2 weeks older than yours and it has been an obvious cockerel for several weeks. I think yours is a pullet.

 

[Hensndoes]

I’m on the fence about your olive egger. It looks to be a mix of cream legbar and likely Marans as it has a pomp and slate skin. If mom was the CLB then that’s guaranteed male. Post again in a few more weeks! I’ll be curious to see.

 

[mustangannie]

I’m on the fence about your olive egger. It looks to be a mix of cream legbar and likely Marans as it has a pomp and slate skin. If mom was the CLB then that’s guaranteed male. Post again in a few more weeks! I’ll be curious to see.

I’ve thought clb x Maran as well because she has the faint hint of feathers on her legs (like 2 almost non existent) and the other brown egg cross would welsummer and she doesn’t have much of that coloring that I can see. I’m not sure which way the cross goes as to who was roo vs hen but there were some others there at 5 weeks that def had redder combs than she does. Not even a hint of color in her at 7 weeks. Is the hen clb always make it a male offspring in that cross?

 

[Hensndoes]

I’ve thought clb x Maran as well because she has the faint hint of feathers on her legs (like 2 almost non existent) and the other brown egg cross would welsummer and she doesn’t have much of that coloring that I can see. I’m not sure which way the cross goes as to who was roo vs hen but there were some others there at 5 weeks that def had redder combs than she does. Not even a hint of color in her at 7 weeks. Is the hen clb always make it a male offspring in that cross?

Any barred hen will pass her barrin gene to sons only so if roo was solid you can tell sex at hatch pretty much. Other way around (barred roo) doesn’t work

 

[mustangannie]

Thank you so much for this info! I got this little one at 5 weeks old from the grange so not sure if they were sexed when young. Not sure if barred was the hen or roo unfortunately. Sold as pullet so SHOULD be but we all know how that goes...

 

[mustangannie]

1st update : 9 weeks old now ... any thoughts on sex of these 2 now?

 

[mustangannie]

Lol!! Let us know if he ever looks like a rooster, or decides to lay eggs

An updated pic at 17 weeks

 

[chrissynemetz]

Hey!! He's looking like a boy now

 

[chrissynemetz]

And the other two still look like pullets to me

 

[mustangannie]

Hey!! He's looking like a boy now

About time right? He will be handsome. I get to see him a few times a week. I wish we could have kept him. He was a late bloomer for sure