What gender are my EE

[Sue331828]

Please help. I bought these straight run. I am struggling to determine the gender please can anyone help with the attached pictures. The birds are 13-14 wks. Thanks.

 

[ramirezframing]

all are pullets or hens

 

[Sue331828]

How can you tell?

 

[roostersandhens]

The EEs look like females.

 

[roostersandhens]

How can you tell?

Males have large combs that are dark red. The males have large curved tail feathers called sickle feathers. The feathers next to the tail called saddle feathers are pointy on the roosters. The female have curved saddle feathers, the hens have small pink combs and no sickle feathers.

 

[Wyandottes7]

How can you tell?

Males would have larger, redder combs. They would also be larger, more tall and lanky, have pointy saddle feathers (the feathers near a rooster's tail) and pointy neck feathers, sometimes longer sickle feathers in the tail, and an overall more masculine apperance.

 

[BantamLover21]

Males would have larger, redder combs. They would also be larger, more tall and lanky, have pointy saddle feathers (the feathers near a rooster's tail) and pointy neck feathers, sometimes longer sickle feathers in the tail, and an overall more masculine apperance.

x2 Also, though you can't see the combs very well in these photos, male EE's often have three ridges to their pea combs at this age, while females have 1 or 2.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Please help. I bought these straight run. I am struggling to determine the gender please can anyone help with the attached pictures. The birds are 13-14 wks. Thanks.

# 3 and 4 don't look like EE's Speckled Sussex and Buff Brahma would be my guess! Definitely agree with the others, all pullets! Lovely girls.

 

[Sue331828]

Yes #3 is speckled sussex, i forgot to mention. #4 was supposed to be an EE. Guess i may have picked wrong breed.

 

[donrae]

I see 2 ee hens, a Sussex rooster with some hens, and a brahma mix hen.