What are we? (4.5 week old EEs)

the lemon tree

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I posted about one of the chicks last week but perhaps some new feathering will help with sexing.

Here's Chick A:
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...and Chick B:
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Both of them together (A on left):
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Sorry, it was an impromptu photo session so forgive the mediocrity of angles/quality.

What do you think?
 
Im really not to sure but it kinda looks like chick A is a male larger tail feathers and it looks like a larger comb but still that could just be antthing.
 
They're both pullets.


Edited to add - Sometimes you can't tell this early, but yours have a very typical female EE color/patterns - definitely girls.

The easter egger on the left of this stick looks just like yours - you can go to my BYC page (chicks to pullets) if you want to see what she might look like full grown
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All 3 of these EEs are pullets, but the 2 in the back are the ones with definite female coloring/patterning
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EEs are hard to tell this early because they are mixed breeds.

I have some with a single comb and some with a pea comb, so judging by comb size is hard.

My one roo in the order of 8 was way different than the others in coloring and size and stance.
He looked way different at 4 - 5 weeks.

Yours look like my pullets.

Give it another 3 weeks and post new pictures - - - in the meantime - - they are looking like girls.
 

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