20 week old silkies

[mlmanjoney]

Have 3 20 week old silkies. only one has a comb of any sort, no crowing or mounting, and I know silkies are notoriously hard to sex and slow to mature. But still curious to any guesses!

The one black on the left I am pretty sure she is a pullet, has had a lovely round poof for a long time now

 

[PippinTheChicken]

White is female and the black one is probably male

 

[PippinTheChicken]

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Pippin's easy guide to silkie sexing

Hello there! When I hatched my own silkies, I studied and studied about how to sex them. I read that it was almost impossible to sex them, and that you had to wait for a crow or an egg. Raising and watching them helped me pick out certain traits that only belong to roosters or hens. These...

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[Silviaschicks]

In the first picture, the black silkie on the left is roo. the other two are pullets

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Agree with above posters.

 

[PioneerChicks]

5 months is a great age and you can be just about sure of it at this point! Check out the article @PippinTheChicken posted and this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sexing-silkies.75451/
Could we get better pictures of the two in the back? The white looks like a female to me.

 

[mlmanjoney]

Little chickies are fast and the skies opened up and it started pouring Let's see if these help. One is black and one is a greyish blue. Definitely easier to see the color difference in person.

First 3 are the blue along with the comb picture in the op. last 3 are the black.

 

[Silviaschicks]

The grayish-blue one is the roo

 

[LadiesAndJane]

The grayish-blue one is the roo

Agreed

 

[mlmanjoney]

That is what I was thinking, even though they were all supposed to be female. Whelp, to quote Meatloaf... two outta three aint bad