Any guesses to the gender? Also...peacomb or no??

[JesWith3]

This baby has me stumped. Obviously, I know that I'll just have to wait it out to see what this baby really is, but I'm wondering if anyone has any guesses just by glancing. He/She is a day over 2 weeks old. Parents are EE mama and Ameraucana daddy. Baby feather sexed ROO at 2 days old and again at 3 days old. Now, at 2 weeks, he/she is starting to look and act more hen to me. Won't be sure til we hear a cockadoodledoo, but what do you think?
Also, from a couple of angles, the comb looks pea comb, but from other angles, it looks straight...what say you?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Far too young to be certain of sex. Wing sexing requires specific genetics in the parents to make the right combination of genes in the offspring, so I wouldn't count on it being correct in a random mix like this. As for the comb, more than likely it's a heterozygous pea comb--that is, the chick has one pea comb gene and one not-pea-comb gene, giving it the appearance of a taller pea comb that could be mistaken for a single.

 

[JesWith3]

Far too young to be certain of sex. Wing sexing requires specific genetics in the parents to make the right combination of genes in the offspring, so I wouldn't count on it being correct in a random mix like this. As for the comb, more than likely it's a heterozygous pea comb--that is, the chick has one pea comb gene and one not-pea-comb gene, giving it the appearance of a taller pea comb that could be mistaken for a single.

Gotcha! Thank you so much! I learn so much here. I DID know that feather sexing can't really be counted on in most situations, but wanted to give it a go. I'm really hoping this baby turns out to be a hen, since one of his/her siblings (same dad, different mama) we thought was a girl is looking like a roo ((sigh))

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Nothing wrong at all with experimenting as long as you're aware that it might not be accurate! I have a whole article about using random chick sexing methods and testing how accurate they are on random chicks. Here's hoping you do have a pullet in the mix!