That's just it, though, EEs from hatcheries aren't crosses. It's hard to maintain the blue shell when you outcross and there is no need to with the huge amount of genetic variability EEs have.
I think one of each but it's just a hunch at this point.
I think the bigger one with feathered legs is a girl and the smaller one is male. The bigger one has longer wings.
I got him from Hoovers. They have a Facebook site and I sent a pic. they say he is an Easter Egger. When that little chick peeped with feathers on his legs...I looked at my roo. He has extra toes and his baby pics have a very slight feathering which you can't see now. Maybe he is a faverolle Cross? I have EE pullets from hoovers now. They are mostly brown with blackish or grey wings. They are the same age as my white chicks and their legs and cones are the same as my white chicks . Some looked like chipmunks and had eyeliner. I have only 2 kinds of hens. Some Rhode island and some type of production hens that lay huge eggs but they don't hatch. attached are my 2 kinds of hens. these are the only layers I have. I've sold some chicks and when they are red babies they seem to be female and most of the black and white turn out to be males but that is not 100
I'm no genetics expert but I believe what you're seeing means he looks colombian white but that's just the dominant traits showing. As with almost all EEs, he has some heterozygous traits.
I don't know what goes on behind the scenes at Hoover's. They are producing olive eggers now but theirs look like Legbar crosses and I'd expect at least a little crest if he was a castoff from early in that program.
