8.5 week Silkie x Ameraucana or Legbar chicks - please help me guess gender and parentage

[Rhodebar Lover]

I'm not sure of the parentage but both appear to be pullets!

 

[Solanacae]

Bump for any other guesses

 

[Solanacae]

I’m not sure how well the color is coming across in the pictures, but today I saw some red on the tips of some feathers. I’m wondering if this black one is a boy.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Looking more like a boy to me with those red shoulders. What do you think? Pictures taken yesterday, chick will be 10 weeks tomorrow.

You're certainly right. Comb size is quite deceiving but he is getting cockerel-specific shoulder feathers and even some bright saddle feathers emerging

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Chick 2: bigger crest, noticeable beard, skin around beak was lighter at hatch, but had dark legs, face has become darker over time.

How does the pullet look now?

They’re both silkie x Easter eggers. The cockerel can’t be a Silkie x legbar since he lacks barring.

 

[esturtz27]

Looking more like a boy to me with those red shoulders. What do you think? Pictures taken yesterday, chick will be 10 weeks tomorrow.

I am unsure if this is a boy or not. We have two Ameracuna hens that looked quite similar...so much so I thought for certain one was a roo. Idk they are just funny colored ladies they lay pretty blue eggs.

 

[Solanacae]

The cockerel has developed more red in his shoulders, as expected, and there’s a lot of gold in his hackles. I’m starting to see a little purple in his comb too.

The pullet, who I named Wren, has gotten some really gorgeous coloring. Her chest is a light brown with a salmon tint that doesn’t show in the pictures. Her head, crest and beard are very dark brown, not quite black. The patterning on her back, wing, and tail feathers shows up ok but they’re more brown in real life. The feathering on her legs is sparse, and you can see the blue earlobe peeking through in the first picture. She’s 14 weeks now.