Who am I and what is my gender :-)

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

Smaller 3 (2 brown and 1 black) are just shy of 5 months old and all the others are almost 7 months old. Ok we will have photo overload today in this thread. I typically know 100% the sex of the chicken. But when it comes to Easter Eggers I sometimes am clueless. I will post some Easter Eggers, some with 1 parent as an egger and the other wasn’t and some that are not an egger at all! So guess my gender and what type of chicken the parents are you think ;-) I will add I breed my own chickens however I sometimes lose track after the egg hatches on which egg it came from. The smallest chickens in these pics so the brown one with black tail feathers (that I think is a rooster) and the all black one with gold on hackle feathers (also think it may be a rooster) I am not sure what breed the fathers are. I housed some chickens on some friends land for a little bit and when I brought the hens back I wanted to keep for myself I incubated the eggs and kept the 3. I know the black with gold lacings mom is a Black Australorp and has the same black/brown eyes as mama. Same iridescent coloring within the black. But must have a brown type of dad?

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

The smaller brown chickens there are 2. One with tons of black on its hackle feathers and a black what I call rooster tail feather sticking out and the other has a lot less black if you can tell. I know some chickens just shows parts of their body parts so just by looking at those parts what do you think? I know I have crowing finally happening, one of the black and white ones played her first egg today (don’t know which one they have both been snooping the laying boxes)

 

[nuthatched]

Bunch of ee pullets

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Your right, it's overload of pics.

At the stated age they all look like pullets to me including the brown with black tail feathers.

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

Bunch of ee pullets

Well I have some roosters in this mix I have fertile eggs and crowing

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

Your right, it's overload of pics.

At the stated age they all look like pullets to me including the brown with black tail feathers.

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Some crow and I have fertile eggs

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

Bunch of ee pullets

Well some crow and are fertilizing eggs

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

I have noticed the ones I think are roosters spread out where the hens sleep so 1 is with each group.

 

[NatJ]

Well I have some roosters in this mix I have fertile eggs and crowing

I am not seeing any males, but I can't be sure that I have paid attention to every chicken, the way they all keep photobombing.

Can you get photos of each chicken individually? That would make it easier to see the traits of each one. Labels help too, so we have a way to be consistent about which chicken is being discussed ("Chicken A" or "Spot" is more clear than "the one with gold and black patterning that looks almost like the other one...")


It is possible for pullets & hens to crow.
It is possible to have "fertile" eggs with a bullseye with no rooster present.

But I agree that if you hear crowing and the eggs look fertile, you probably do have a male in there somewhere. I have never heard of eggs that develop into chicks and hatch, with no rooster involved. If you put eggs in an incubator, and they develop into chicks and hatch, I would consider that pretty good proof of there being a male present.


Only females lay eggs, so if you figure out who is laying, the only possible males will be the non-laying ones.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/
^This is one way to check who is laying.

Or you could put one at a time into something like a dog crate, to see if she/he lays an egg. One egg proves that bird to be female, and you go on to the next one. If every one of them lays an egg, then they are all females.

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

I will absolutely put pictures up of each and better shots! I was just pulling different pics I had taken

I am not seeing any males, but I can't be sure that I have paid attention to every chicken, the way they all keep photobombing.

Can you get photos of each chicken individually? That would make it easier to see the traits of each one. Labels help too, so we have a way to be consistent about which chicken is being discussed ("Chicken A" or "Spot" is more clear than "the one with gold and black patterning that looks almost like the other one...")


It is possible for pullets & hens to crow.
It is possible to have "fertile" eggs with a bullseye with no rooster present.

But I agree that if you hear crowing and the eggs look fertile, you probably do have a male in there somewhere. I have never heard of eggs that develop into chicks and hatch, with no rooster involved. If you put eggs in an incubator, and they develop into chicks and hatch, I would consider that pretty good proof of there being a male present.


Only females lay eggs, so if you figure out who is laying, the only possible males will be the non-laying ones.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/
^This is one way to check who is laying.

Or you could put one at a time into something like a dog crate, to see if she/he lays an egg. One egg proves that bird to be female, and you go on to the next one. If every one of them lays an egg, then they are all females.

but will do better!