The EE braggers thread!!!

[farmerChef]

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Color means far more than comb with Easter Eggers.

I've been searching and searching and searching to find the specific colors that would indicate an EE roo or pullet. Can you enlighten me? I have two EEs that I'm hoping are pullets, but it's so hard to tell! We already have a BR roo that was supposed to be a pullet, and I'm fine with keeping him but we can't have more than that in our little flock of 8.

Here are the two at about a week old when we got them.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/81629_pic_0036.jpg

Here's the one I'm most concerned about a little closer up. She's matured a LOT and has a lot of white feathers growing on the tops of her wings.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/81629_pic_0044.jpg

She was always the largest of all the 8 chicks, but now she's about twice as big as the smallest BR (who seems to not be growing, she's so tiny!). I'll post more recent pics of her later tonight. Crossing my fingers for a pullet!

Pullets usually feather in faster than roos

 

[Illia]

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Color means far more than comb with Easter Eggers.

Hmmm....not in my experience, at all. However, I think it has a great deal to do with what hatchery (and their lines) that the chicks come from. To me, it isn't REALLY an EE if he/she doesn't have a pea comb, which is easy to sex.
I've seen you remark on other threads that a pictured chick will be a roo---or not, due to coloring, but I have nearly the exact colored EE hens....so again, I really think it depends on the particular hatchery line and whether the EE has a pea comb. If it doesn't have a pea comb, all bets are off for me!

It's called follow the rules of the colors EE's commonly come in. I've yet to ever see a hatchery offer a bunch of EEs that cannot be sexed by color, except of course the occasional whites now and then.


Velvet Hairpiece - Those are too young to tell. If anything I peg both girls, but by color sexing I mean once they're feathered out. As a chick, only gold duckwings are easily sexed by down color.



As to the question on sexing by the pea comb - Look for the most defined, and of course, the reddest and largest. (which isn't always the case) The best way to judge boy vs girl is that the boys will get a definite three rows earlier than the girls. But of course with the single combs that go around hatchery EE's it is sometimes hard to judge.

 

[Delmar]

So I dispatched the birds on the right and left and only Edwardo remains from that group. I let he and my girls (I really do have some hens, they are laying eggs and everything) out to free range. He and one of my Barred Rocks managed to demonstrate beyond any doubt that he is, in fact a rooster! So do you think he will start crowing now?

 

[Illia]

Yep. Often the lack of crowing is induced by more dominant males being around, or just by slow maturity.

 

[rhs7111]

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Hmmm....not in my experience, at all. However, I think it has a great deal to do with what hatchery (and their lines) that the chicks come from. To me, it isn't REALLY an EE if he/she doesn't have a pea comb, which is easy to sex.
I've seen you remark on other threads that a pictured chick will be a roo---or not, due to coloring, but I have nearly the exact colored EE hens....so again, I really think it depends on the particular hatchery line and whether the EE has a pea comb. If it doesn't have a pea comb, all bets are off for me!

It's called follow the rules of the colors EE's commonly come in. I've yet to ever see a hatchery offer a bunch of EEs that cannot be sexed by color, except of course the occasional whites now and then.


Velvet Hairpiece - Those are too young to tell. If anything I peg both girls, but by color sexing I mean once they're feathered out. As a chick, only gold duckwings are easily sexed by down color.



As to the question on sexing by the pea comb - Look for the most defined, and of course, the reddest and largest. (which isn't always the case) The best way to judge boy vs girl is that the boys will get a definite three rows earlier than the girls. But of course with the single combs that go around hatchery EE's it is sometimes hard to judge.

Yes, Illia, I know what "it's called" and as I previously noted, I think it is unreliable and frankly, often wrong. As I wrote before, I've read your other posts with your gender guesses based on color, and have found them to be sometimes incorrect. I have EE hens in many of the colors and patterns you have deemd "roo only"...ahem...so perhaps *you've* never seen a hatchery offer a bunch of EEs that cannot be sexed by color, but indeed *I* have. There really wasn't any need for your rudeness, either.

 

[Velvet Hairpiece]

Well the bird in question definitely feathered quickly. Here she is today (about 3 weeks).

This is Lady Antebellum. I love this pose, it's like Charlie surrounded by his angels! (Except the real "Charlie" is the little BR roo hiding out in the back)

and Lady again.

This is our other EE, Wenifred. I'm pretty sure she's a girl, and she's turning beautiful. It looks like she may end up with some blue/grey feathers! (She's the one on the right, the less blurry one standing in front is probably a black sex link? If anyone can share insight on what she might be it would also be appreciated!)

I should also mention that these were both sold to me as Ameracaunas, and I was quickly told by other BYC members that they are just plain 'ol EEs. I'm totally fine with that, it's kind of nice waiting for the surprise how they'll feather out! When they were tiny chicks, these two looked almost identical, except Lady was slightly more grey while Wendy was slightly brownish grey.

So any gender guesses would be appreciated. They're supposed to be ladies, but I already know how that goes!


Edited to correct embarrassing spelling errors

 

[MobyQuail]

the rents

thing 001 day 03- cockerel

thing 001 day 33- cockerel

thing 002 day 03- pullet

thing 002 day 33- bad pic- pullet

 

[MobyQuail]

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pretty birds, those are pretty big legs on a lady

lady may not be a lady imho. you may have to give her the "old crocodile dundee", Wenifred looks like an EE pullet I had. imho. gonna be very pretty, congrats!

 

[Velvet Hairpiece]

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pretty birds, those are pretty big legs on a lady

lady may not be a lady imho. you may have to give her the "old crocodile dundee", Wenifred looks like an EE pullet I had. imho. gonna be very pretty, congrats!

I definitely worried about Lady's legs... They are kinda big, but when I was inspecting her tonight, they're not that much bigger than Wendy's, Lady is just a big bird! She also feathered out very quickly, which made me think pullet. Is this all wishful thinking? I really can't have two roo's... Lady does perch and sound an alarm chirp whenever I come over to the brooder. I need her to be a pullet!

 

[MobyQuail]

The current leader of our mongrel horde, here as a youngster her name was Madeline, now "he" is Mattie.

not indicative of your situation, just saying, be prepared...