Silkie gender guesses?

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I have 2 white silkies about 3 months old,
any guesses as to what they are?

As babies,
(#1 on left, #2 on right)
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At 3 months
#1
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#2

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They both have beautiful blue earlobes, but #2 seems to have more comb growth, while #1's is barely visible looking straight on.
 
warning: no useful info ahead!

i just had to say that first pic, with the little black chicks' long legs and full-on heiny is pretty adorable. it took me a second to see it. at first i was like, 'omg! that poor chick has no face!' haha.

your birds, whatever their sex, are gorgeous! i love the white silkies, they are just too beautiful to be real aren't they?

are you hoping for pullets? i'll keep my fingers crossed for ya!
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They look like pullets to me; my roosters had much more developed combs at that age. (However, Silkies are notoriously hard to sex... )
 
My blue cockerel had me guessing until he was almost 7 MONTHS old. He had no comb nor did he ever crow until then. I had another cockerel start showing his comb about 4-6 weeks before then. They are really tricky to figure out. I can usually sex most all of my other breeds within a week or two of hatching. These silkies humbled me! Regarding your birds, the first looks like a pullet and the second a roo but we may not know for sure for a couple more months:o

Richard
 
1st hen, 2nd rooster already has a big mulberry comb going on.
 
Yea, I was thinking #1 a pullet and #2 a roo, which works out pretty well.
Hopefully, that'll be the way it turns out.......Anything but 2 roos.
 

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