12 Week Old Silkie - Hen or Roo?

[Sunshine0235]

Roosters will sometimes mount each other to show dominance, hens will also do the same. I don't know if that is what is occurring but it is a possibility.

 

[BirdIsTheWurd]

Well, I have an update! Our blue boy is crowing away like a crazy old rooster! We probably have to rehome because he is too loud for our neighborhood, even though we can keep roosters technically. He is trying to mount our white girl, and I would assume he would know best and that she is a hen. That would be a reasonable assumption right? She isn't having any of it and clucks and scurries away, but he has tried repeatedly and appears more interested in her than any of the other hens. So - my final qu on this topic (since there are still no eggs or crowing from the white one to confirm) - a rooster would only try to mount a hen right? They don't get confused or anything lol?!

Did your white one end up being a hen? I have one that looks just like this (same age too) and I'm just not sure if I have a hen or roo!