What gender is my EE? HELP!---NEW PICS---

[fordmommy]

Pretty girl.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Girly!!!!

 

[bibliophile birds]

could some of you go into exactly why you think this is a pullet? i know some of the things to look for, but they still don't really seem all that clear to me. i know to watch for combs that are more red for cockerels and then i read something about secondary feathers and saddle feathers, but i just don't know how to apply that info.

so if you could point out some things that help you know this is a pullet, that would be really helpful.

 

[chick4chix]

Pretty little pullet. I have 4 EE pullets who all make different sounds- one even quacks like a duck. I thought one was a roo too- because she was so much larger than the rest and seemed dominant. She was the second to the last to lay and turned into a very pretty pullet.

I don't currently have a rooster atlargeintheworld- but some of the other posts on BYC have mentioned sickle tail feathers- pointed neck feathers- larger redder combs/wattles- saddle feathers- non of which I see on this pretty little girl.

My vote is for girlygirl

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Looks like a girl to me too.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Okay - I'm the odd one out here, but I think it might be a boy. I know the body shape looks girly, but according to the OP this chick was only 11 weeks old in the photos and with that coloring & that pink of a comb at only 11 weeks of age it could be a cockerel.

 

[speckledhen]

The comb at that age on males would be much larger, wider and bright red. The center ridge is about all you see on this one. No pointy, dangly saddle feathers, either. The body shape and tail shape are female. Below is an Ameraucana cockerel I used to own. In this pic, he is 12 weeks old, then at 14 weeks:

 

[Wanda]

I was the same with my bantam EE'ger. Up til the time she layed her first egg, I was going back and forth about her sex. She made a lot of strange noises (stil does), her feathers were so narrow I wasn't sure if they were pointy or round and she had a more "assertive" personality then my other pullets/hens (probably because she was 1/2 OE). I was pretty sure I had picked a pullet but they say you can never really be sure til they crow or lay an egg and I was really relieved to see that first egg ;-)

Wanda

 

[speckledhen]

The hackles on EEs and Ameraucanas often look sort of pointy on the pullets, too, so I never go by those, only the comb, saddle feathers and body shape.

 

[ccandpat]

congrats it's a girl
no spurs.