What gender is this Silkie & leghorn?

[Star627]

Can anyone help with their genders?

Thanks

 

[Michael OShay]

The Silkie looks like a cockerel. How old is the Leghorn?

 

[12 gauge]

the leghorn looks like a rooster to me

 

[12 gauge]

but that's just me

 

[Star627]

They are both about 3 1/2 months.

 

[12 gauge]

at 3 1\2 months that is a rooster

 

[Star627]

This is my first time having chickens. We incubated some eggs for a 4h project & only had 2 hatch. This leghorn is one of them. The other is without a doubt a hen. I purchased 7 more from a lady...EE mixes & the Silkie. Then I inherited this Leghorn (pictured below...she's already laying. I'm not questioning her sex

So then my son got renewed hope thinking that his favorite chicken could still be a hen. As it stands right now, I have 2 definite EE roosters & possibly this leghorn in the original post.

 

[donrae]

The white bird isn't a Leghorn, it's a mixed breed cockerel.

Pretty sure the silkie is a cockerel also, but I'm not the greatest with that breed.

 

[Star627]

4h said they were white leghorns...but they arrived in brown eggs. So I'm sure they are a cross of some sort. Any idea of what?

 

[donrae]

White rock and something else. In the last pic, you can faintly see what's called ghost barring, faint stripes of color. That's usually from dominant white covering barring on a bird and can show up when crossbreeding white Rocks (who carry dominant white covering barring quite often).