SLW 9 weeks - pullet / cockerel?

[Tookie]

I caught Cappy Llama in the nesting box again this morning. I've gotten 4 small pale eggs over the last week, seen some silkie feathers in the boxes and had a pale egg with a white silkie feather stuck to it. I'm thinking Cappy Llama is actually a pullet! Which is crazy because they just turned 20 weeks old yesterday, so if it is "her" laying eggs she would have started laying at about 19 weeks. Which I think is crazy young for a silkie, but then again, this is a hatchery silkie... I'm excited to check the boxes tonight!

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For comparison, here is one of the cockerels
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I'm thinking pullet!

 

[2ndTink]

Aaaahhh!


Aaaaaaahhh!!


Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!


It's a Cappy Llama egg!!!!!!


what a ride!

 

[Tookie]

Aaaahhh!
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Aaaaaaahhh!!
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Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!
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It's a Cappy Llama egg!!!!!!
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what a ride!

So you caught her?

 

[2ndTink]

So you caught her?

Yup! And it's about time! But wow, such a guessing game right to the end

I'm going to miss this thread though, big thanks to you, @HorseGirlAbby and @NanaK for joining in!

I do have 13 silkie chicks that are 6 weeks old now, it will soon be time to start guessing on them there are a couple with thickened combs already so must cockerels (well, after the Cappy Llama journey, maybe I can't be so sure), and one is a sexlinked color so I know he's a cockerel. They are super adorable, from a local breeder so they are extra floofy!

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Aaaahhh!
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Aaaaaaahhh!!
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Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!
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It's a Cappy Llama egg!!!!!!
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what a ride!

Aww, congratulations! I’m so glad you finally figured it out, and she’s a girl.