6 week old silkies getting red in the comb.... (pics)

[chicken-owner-31]

....can I assume that they are boys at this point?

I have 10 Silkies from Welp, and 2 of them are turning red in the comb. I know that doen't mean that I have 8 hens, but I figured since silkies were hard to sex, them getting red this early was a pretty sure sign at least those two were boys.

Pics of the two, they were actually 5.5 weeks old in these pics:

This one is even more red now:

 

[magicpigeon]

Looks like you've got 2 boys alright

Here are my 2 at 10 weeks

BOY:

GIRL:

lol BIG difference. Yours are adorable though. Congrats

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Are those little boys banty silkies? I am asking because I have a brooder full (that looks like all hens if I compare these pics), but they are twice the size and they are about a month old.

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Magic that is a great lookin little boy and girl you got for yourself.

 

[magicpigeon]

JustAChickenLittle&More :

Are those little boys banty silkies? I am asking because I have a brooder full (that looks like all hens if I compare these pics), but they are twice the size and they are about a month old.

Silkies are true bantams. You can't get standards

JustAChickenLittle&More :

Magic that is a great lookin little boy and girl you got for yourself.

Thanksss

I hatched them myself with the help of my own "magicpigeon" Homer (NOT a homing pigeon lol)​

 

[chicken-owner-31]

Thanks, I was pretty convinced they were boys because of the color in the combs.....thier top knots are still so small! The other 8 I'm on the fence about. Most of them I am watching behaviors and such and making my guess about that. I know it's still way too early to tell either way, but I'm writing down my guesses for each bird every couple of weeks and comparing. It's fun any way! My cochins are pretty obvious at this point (for the most part) but it stinks because I ended up with more roos than hens out of the 20. And most of the frizzles are roos.

I'm going to give it another couple of weeks/months and then post pics of the ones that I am on the fence about. But I'm not re-homing anything until there is fighting. They are all so sweet!

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Wow! I must be overfeeding my bantum silikes, they look like King Kong already.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

Quote:
Silkies are true bantams. You can't get standards

Actually that is not true. Our bantam Silkies here are actually in between the large fowl and bantam Silkies they have overseas. There are large fowl Silkies, we just don't have them here.

 

[roocrazy]

Quote:
Silkies are true bantams. You can't get standards

Actually that is not true. Our bantam Silkies here are actually in between the large fowl and bantam Silkies they have overseas. There are large fowl Silkies, we just don't have them here.

very true acid... though there are some projects of standards in the U.S.

 

[aleigh]

Boy or girl??