Hen or roo? Easter egger?

[MrsCluckadoodledo]

Some updated pics

 

[AinaWGSD]

Probably a midnight majesty or noir marans cockerel, both are hatchery sex linked hybrids. He's dark like a female barred rock because he only has one copy of the barring gene.

 

[MrsCluckadoodledo]

Probably a midnight majesty or noir marans cockerel, both are hatchery sex linked hybrids. He's dark like a female barred rock because he only has one copy of the barring gene

Probably a midnight majesty or noir marans cockerel, both are hatchery sex linked hybrids. He's dark like a female barred rock because he only has one copy of the barring gene.

Whatever he is, he is a butthead. Chases all the pullets including my SLW rooster. I only have one EE pullet that is bossy towards him.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

They don't look much like EEs, possibly Olive eggers, but they are likely not whatever they were advertised as.

 

[MrsCluckadoodledo]

They don't look much like EEs, possibly Olive eggers, but they are likely not whatever they were advertised as.

What are the differences between EE and OE?

 

[MrsCluckadoodledo]

They don't look much like EEs, possibly Olive eggers, but they are likely not whatever they were advertised as.

None of them have feathers on their legs.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

None of them have feathers on their legs.

Yes, but one has a small crest, indicating Legbar heritage. Other than that, they look nothing like EEs.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

What are the differences between EE and OE?

Easter eggers usually have muffs, beards, pea combs, and green/black legs. They generally lay blue/teal eggs.
Olive eggers, as the name suggests, are bred specifically to lay shades of green.
Some forms of Olive eggers are bred from EEs, but more often, they are bred from CCLBs (Crested cream legbars, which are a blue laying breed) and Marans. They can have lightly feathered legs but not always. They almost always have small crests. I raised one who was a dark gray color, crested, and bare-legged.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

So the fact that as a group, they don't look much like EEs (no muffs, single combs, etc) but one is lightly crested, makes me believe they could be Olive Eggers. At the very least I would expect the crested one to lay colored eggs. The others, perhaps not. And the boy won't lay anything, haha.

 

[MrsCluckadoodledo]

So the fact that as a group, they don't look much like EEs (no muffs, single combs, etc) but one is lightly crested, makes me believe they could be Olive Eggers. At the very least I would expect the crested one to lay colored eggs. The others, perhaps not. And the boy won't lay anything, haha.

I will get updated pics of the EE pullets. Of the 3, 2 have grey legs and the other is crested. Guess we shall see what colors they lay since they should be my earliest to lay.