Look for streamers in the tail feathers. Like shiny longer feathers. The boys will have more slicked back combs
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Quote: LOL I'm still guessing. I have one that I was praying was a girl but looked like a roo but today a roo did the dance for him/her now I don't know.
LOL I'm still guessing. I have one that I was praying was a girl but looked like a roo but today a roo did the dance for him/her now I don't know.
Glad to hear that you are finally ahead of the cocci. Onwards and upwards ! Your little pellet is adorable .Hello again, I haven't posted in awhile, so sorry if I am speaking about things no one remembers. I just wanted to thank you guys again for being so helpful when my silkies were dealing with cocci/wry neck. My vet is neither a poultry nor avian specialist and sometimes knows less than I do about certain ailments. Fortunately I have now discovered that you can consult with the state vets even when you have not had a necropsy done which I did not know before. I think we've finally kicked the cocci in their little group. In the end both my black silkies had wry neck/severe vitamin deficiency, and one of them did not make it. I had a necropsy done so I know definitively that it was cocci and vitamin deficiency that caused the wry neck symptoms, and definitely not Marek's, which was a big relief. My other black silkie still has not regained use of her one leg, although it seems to be improving with physical therapy. I have considered putting her to sleep in the past but she seems so happy and content and so I can't bring myself to do it. I am still hoping she makes a full recovery. She's the only one who has been DNA tested, so I know that she's a pullet. Her two silkie brooder mates left are 15 weeks. I know I can't know for sure without DNA testing or waiting until they crow/lay, but I can't see any signs of rooster in the smaller one. The other is slightly bigger so I always suspected he was a cockerel, but he hasn't shown obvious physical signs, my older silkie (confirmed by crowing) cockerel has a distinctly slicked back comb, and very obvious streamer feathers at his neck and tail. I can't see anything that obvious on either of these guys but I was wondering if you could see something that I cannot? Neither of them have any visible comb or wattles at this point. Honeysuckle, always believed to be a cockerel but now I am not sure I see the signs. still suspect that he might be. he is very, very timid, but there is an older cockerel nearby, so perhaps he is laying low. This is little Clementine. She has the roundest, poofiest crest. Also very, very timid. Will be very surprised if she is not a pullet. Thank you for looking, and thank you again for all your help earlier this summer.