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Here's my LF EE girl from Cackle... 5 1/2 months old and lays a blue egg. She is small, which is why I kept her rather than her sister. Then the next pictures are two of my three bantam EE chicks that are 3 weeks old.

Fingers crossed they have a safe voyage. Cackle has some of the best birds!

Aggressive won't necessarily make him the best for free ranging. One of my roosters was a real weenie growing up but turned out to be THE BEST ROOSTER EVER. He was good to the girls, never aggressive to me, and his world revolved around the girls and the chicks and being alert and making sure...

Sorry the other replies didn't load for some reason so I didn't see that you had already said the age. I think it is a pullet

How old is it? Usually red wing patches mean boy but those are low, not the shoulders. I had a girl that looked just like her. It sort of depends on age though, given how red the comb is looking right now.

Yes, it's definitely that time of year when supplemental heat requirements are low if you are brooding outdoors like I do (which I highly recommend when possible!).

Did you post a pic of it? I can't find it.

So beautiful! Great idea! I might steal that. And maybe name my Marans after chocolate candies or brands or something...

Earlier this year I had quite a few EEs, from Cackle and tractor supply. I only keep one from Cackle and sold all the rest, and picked up another from a swap. So here are mine! My oldest girl, Snakehead, is a year and a half and actually went broody recently! Here she is puffed up because she...

Yes, that is what you do to roosters to calm them so you can milk the semen from them for artificial insemination. What I have read is that they instinctively "play dead" when placed on their backs, to cause a predator to lose interest when they are in that very vulnerable position. Moving or...

Being 13 weeks, it looks pretty female.

@MrsKris how old is s/he?

It only shows for the three seconds that it takes you to look at your "watched threads" list. Not really a big deal, IMO.

I had four EE cockerels and decided to keep this one. He's a real cutie that was sold to me as a sexed pullet. He's kind of a wuss but my late Japanese bantam rooster was like that too and turned out to be one of the best boys you could as for so I have high hopes for him. I hope he does not get...

What a great story and what a lucky girl to have ended up with you :)

At that age the tail feathers and hackles won't be very "manly" yet (IME). I use the comb and wattles as the first indicator, and that's usually pretty accurate since they develop before male feathering. Also, the black & white coloring increases the odds of it being male.

It looks like it could be... also looks possibly male. Its very beautiful!

Polish will have poofs on their heads. d'Uccles should have feathered legs.

It's still way too early to tell if either is a cockerel. You'll have to be patient :)

The ones around here, and a lot of hatcheries, don't even bother with the mispelling. My closest feed store sells "Aracaunas" since Murray McMurray calls their EEs "Ameraucana/Aracauna". It irks me to no end, whether its done intentionally or not.