On some of my roos, the streamers are the ONLY indication that they are boys, they have the girl afro look. But I do have a girl who has a crest that isn't an afro, it swooshes back more... But she lays an egg. That was surprising since we bought her as a boy.
Sometimes it can even be an incubation issue with missing nails. I think that a missing nail is a fault, not a DQ, but a missing toe is a DQ. If it has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other, I would test mate and see what the chicks come out like. If it has 4 toes on both feet I wouldn't use it...
The Paint does look like a Silver Partridge or Grey. Sometimes Paint breedings can produce some odd things. We just hatched 10 Paint eggs from a breeder and had two Partridge chicks in the mix.
Snowball started laying this week! She is a little more than seven months old. I think it helped that we are finally getting some consistent weather unlike the rain-sun-sun-rain pattern we have been having.
Now I just have to figure out which breeding pen to add her to in a month...
We ordered a $10 solar light from amazon that does the trick for almost all of our silkies. We have a trio of porcelain that love to sleep on the ground though.