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I just picked my 2 EE chicks using the chipmonk pattern method...supposedly, if the marking runs from the head, down the neck, all the way to the tail, without breaking, and has 3 colors (ie. brown, black, white) it is female. If the marking is on the head but is not on the neck, then again on the back, and there are only 2 colors (such as just black and white) it is male.
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/6-3/determining_sex_in_chicks/
I tried that...we'll see if it "worked." Supposedly that patterning is true for most partridge color chicks.
However, EE's are hybrids and often hybrids of hybrids (mutts upon mutts) so no method will hold true. You just have to do your best guess and cross your fingers.
Lady of McCamley
Congrats. All these beautiful eggs.... I'm jealous. I still about 5 more months to wait lol. Loving watching my babies grow up though! 3 1/2 wks old now and getting more beautiful with each passing day!
I bred my pretty boy Earl to a sister/half sister because I love her soft gold and grey coloring and wanted more birds like her. Their parents were a Lavender Orpington and EE. The chicks are now about five weeks old.
In this hatch were 6 chicks, 5 from the EE girl and 1 from my Wellie/Leghorn girl. 4 boys and 2 girls. The boy in front here looks a lot like his daddy. There are more pics on my blog
They are beautiful. Would love to have some of their eggs for hatching if you ever decide to sell anyI bred my pretty boy Earl to a sister/half sister because I love her soft gold and grey coloring and wanted more birds like her. Their parents were a Lavender Orpington and EE. The chicks are now about five weeks old. In this hatch were 6 chicks, 5 from the EE girl and 1 from my Wellie/Leghorn girl. 4 boys and 2 girls. The boy in front here looks a lot like his daddy. There are more pics on my blog
What a cutie!