Roosters? (Photos)

[m2wandc]

So I’ve been trying to get a white & Black Easter Egger….the farm store ordered hens only….but the first one I raise was definitely a rooster and now has a flock of his own.

I currently have three Black & White EEs that are about 6 weeks old now I think and I haven’t heard any crow attempts but their size and one of them has neck feathers reminiscent of a roo.

what are your thoughts - do you see any roosters?

 

[JedJackson]

They're a little too young to call yet for sure, but their combs are pretty colorful for that age. So they may well be cockerels. I'd give it a while longer to be sure, though.

Unfortunately, black and white coloring is usually associated with male Easter eggers. Not always, but usually.

 

[SchwartzLakeFarmNC]

I agree with
Looks to me you might have 3 cockerels here,I've never had a B/W Pullet, I'm sure they are out there but I've not seen any myself.

 

[WingItRanch]

Hi there! I have 2 Easter Egger pullets that are black and white and 1 that's grayish but I have to be honest.. all started out looking like little brown chipmunks except the rooster which was striking with black eyeliner. Here are two 12 week old EE pullets and an EE rooster. The rooster was very obvious by the stance, tail feathers, and red shoulders that grew in around 8 weeks old.

Looking at yours... I think your whiter ones are pullets. The first photo may be a cockerel, though. The feather coloring isn't consistent throughout and I've learned with EEs, that's more of a male trait. Either way, I'd wait until you hear a crow or see an egg before you make a decision.

 

[m2wandc]

Will EE Roos ALWAYS have brown on the wings somewhere???

If yes, around what age does it surface?

Would make life so much easier if these darn chickens were pullets!!!

Because I think this darn golden laced Wyandotte might be a rooster too.

Someone needs to get fired at the hatchery…this past season out of all the “should be only hens” we got 8 roosters! (That’s just me…imagine all the people that purchased chicks all season!)

Updated pics - thoughts?

 

[WingItRanch]

Will EE Roos ALWAYS have brown on the wings somewhere???

If yes, around what age does it surface?

Would make life so much easier if these darn chickens were pullets!!!

Because I think this darn golden laced Wyandotte might be a rooster too.

Someone needs to get fired at the hatchery…this past season out of all the “should be only hens” we got 8 roosters! (That’s just me…imagine all the people that purchased chicks all season!)

Updated pics - thoughts?

I'm not familiar with Wyandottes so can't help you there but I definitely would never use the word "always" when it comes to sexing EEs. They are so hard to sex and sometimes you think they're male and end up being female. And vice versa. Seems like the only foolproof way is to just wait until they either lay an egg or start crowing/mounting.

 

[labelo]

My parents have a black/white (actually, blue/white) EE pullet, so it's possible. It entirely depends on the parent stock (the idea that more white/black EEs are roos is because silver/white is a sex-linked gene, so if you mix a silver hen with a gold/red roo, female chicks will be red/gold while male chicks will be silver). If the parent stock has silver roos, your chances of silver/white males are equal to females. But if the parent stock is silver hens x gold/red roos, then yes, all the white/black bird will be roos. That's almost impossible to determine when dealing with feed store bird, though.

Pics of the wyandotte in more light would help with sexing. Black-laced gold wyandotte roosters should start to get patches of solid gold, unlaced feathers on their wings.

How old are the EEs and the wyandotte?