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At seven weeks you can guess; you'll have a 50% chance of being right. With partridge or grey the odds are better as the plumage differs between male & female.

Don't judge gender by comb colour on silkies--if they are too young to tell from appearance, comb colour will tell you nothing Girls can also have the too red combs. Size is a better determinant, although there are girls with larger combs.

Male hormones tend to make roo combs lighter in colour than those of females---this is why a darker comb on a young cockerel will often lighten as he matures. Pink or rose is too red, and would be disqualified. Mulberry to black is the standard. In general, the genes that dilute feather...