Sexing silkies!

[Rudies Roost]

Hi there...hoping you may be able to help with my 8 week olds....apologies for the lame pictures but they're little nightmares! :

Would appreciate some feedback as I'd love to breed from these next year..am hoping for 1 cockerel at least

Thanks in advance, Sasha x

Mine turned out to be:

Splash silkie (top picture & in the middle picture): Cockerel...just started crowing beautifully (v. pleased)

The black & the gold partridge (middle & bottom picture): Hens, not laying just yet but submitting well to the cock and to my hand!

 

[Upontheroost]

Sillies are really hard to sex. I have Partridge silkies and it's just about impossible to tell until they're almost full-grown.

 

[Heather94]

7/8 weeks old. Any guesses??

 

[vpeterson]

The bird in the second picture looks like a roo for sure. The last one that is the dark silkie might be female. You really need a head-on picture of the comb.

 

[Merica33]

Any guesses on the gender of this silkie baby??

 

[tlgrimmy]

Any thoughts on this 12 week old silkie? Probably a roo?

 

[Sustained]

Any thoughts on this 12 week old silkie? Probably a roo?

Yup!

 

[silkiemama3]

This Hazel, any thoughts?

This Peck, any thoughts?

 

[chriskent2011]

Hey Y'all, this silkie is twoish weeks old. Let me know what y'all think about the gender

 

[chriskent2011]

Hey Y'all, this silkie is twoish weeks old. Let me know what y'all think about the gender

Update:

Today is three weeks. Some tan feathers are coming in. Perhaps this is a mix of silkie and something. Let me know if anyone can tell the gender