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great pictures, Dawn
let's hope you get a plethora of females ... hard to tell from just pictures, but looks like you have SOME with longer tapered tails ... of course it's just an indication, and I have no way of telling if this hatchery deliberately chooses lines that can be feather-sexed ... all I really know is that Roopert was the last to develop tail feathers, and his were stubby and straight-across, while the other six had earlier, longer tail feathers that fanned out in sort of a semicircular way
Illia can tell you a LOT more about EE coloration -- but what I have seen is, quite often the gold-and-brown ones are the pullets, and the black-and-silver ones are cockerels ... but I have also seen black-and-silver pullets, and brown cockerels ....
also watch for the relative thickness of their legs, and to a certain extent their posture ... the little cockerels tend to stand more upright and swagger a bit ...
great pictures, Dawn
let's hope you get a plethora of females ... hard to tell from just pictures, but looks like you have SOME with longer tapered tails ... of course it's just an indication, and I have no way of telling if this hatchery deliberately chooses lines that can be feather-sexed ... all I really know is that Roopert was the last to develop tail feathers, and his were stubby and straight-across, while the other six had earlier, longer tail feathers that fanned out in sort of a semicircular way
Illia can tell you a LOT more about EE coloration -- but what I have seen is, quite often the gold-and-brown ones are the pullets, and the black-and-silver ones are cockerels ... but I have also seen black-and-silver pullets, and brown cockerels ....
also watch for the relative thickness of their legs, and to a certain extent their posture ... the little cockerels tend to stand more upright and swagger a bit ...
