Definite cockerel.
Well, here's my latest Easter Eggers. One hatchery-based, the rest "homemade."
My hatchery girl, now 2 years old, named Tufted. She's such a sad example. . . She lays about 20 eggs a year and quite likely is going to quit this year, she had a prolapse once, she's got crooked toes, she has an odd body shape/deformity, she has wry tail, and she waddles.
This is my next oldest Easter Egger, a cross of a colorful EE cock and a WCB Polish hen. Despite both parents being anything but broody breeds/varieties, this girl just went broody after only 3 weeks of laying eggs!
These are my next oldest Easter Eggers; Dad is a rumpless, tufted Araucana, mom is a hatchery quality New Hampshire.
This cockerel got the rumpless half of the genes, but no tufts.
Amazingly, all my EE's from this batch look like normal hatchery EE's. . . This girl is tailed, and is a Silver Duckwing + Columbian genes.
This girl, though she looks like a boy, is also a silver duckwing with even more Columbian in her.
This girl is your typical gold duckwing/wildtype BBR color, but with columbian in her as well.
Here's another boy from the batch, he also looks amazingly like a typical hatchery EE, but instead with a blue gene. Genetically, he is a "Golden" Duckwing with Columbian (to reverse colors) and blue.
Last but not least of the batch is my ONLY tufted one out of the batch, rumpless too, and also with the blue gene. He's full on Gold Duckwing/BBR but doesn't look it because of the columbian reversing his coloration. Behind him is a younger Easter Egger cockerel who is half Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, half Gold Duckwing Araucana. Excuse the mess, they've been running around in some awfully muddy places. It's Washington here.
The next "Easter Eggers" are my Olive Eggers - Half Araucana, half Wheaten Marans here -
And the rest (
only one pictured) are half Araucana, half Black Copper Marans. Sadly NONE of them caught the tufted gene. It's a 50/50 gamble.
This cockerel got the entire bad luck of the draw. . . Has a tail, has a single comb instead of pea comb, and is a boy. He's huge though!!
Pardon the wet scenes. . . It has been raining a lot here and I've only lately been able to clean out the coop, so the last photo is wet shavings.
