8 week old Silkie already has a comb & wattles????

[CK Chickadilly]

Alright you Silkie experts.....needing some help again....I thought it was hard to sex Silkies.


This little guy is a 8 week old Cuckoo Silkie & his comb & wattles are already a bright red. Is it just cause he is a cuckoo Silkie that it is how I can tell aready he is a little roo? He is so cute!

I thought normally it was about 6 months that you could finally sex a Silkie????

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

If you know what you are doing then yes you can sex most silkies at just a month old.
Sometimes I am lucky and sex them as young as a week.

But I will say for sure silkies are very hard to sex.
And you will always get birds that will give you a switch lol.

Maybe you could add a picture?

 

[Year of the Rooster]

If they are bright red then he most likely is a roo, but they should be a mulberry color. I have a silkie roo, a white one, and his comb and wattles got big really fast. I could tell he was a roo at 6 WEEKS! So, it's not unheard of; or at least, you're not the only one

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[CK Chickadilly]

Yeah, Silkie roos have the mulberry combs but I was told that the Cuckoos have the red combs. Well, then hopefully this is the only roo I got!

The rest are hens? .... I hope!

 

[VettekLisa]

I have a 5 week old cuckoo silkie that has a bright pink/red comb. I'm
glad that you posted this here, I was wondering if something was
wrong with him.

 

[CK Chickadilly]

Maybe it is just the Cockoos that develop their wattles & combs faster than other Silkies????

 

[swtangel321]

I'm pretty sure his comb should still be mullberry, you should look more into that before breeding him (if quality matters to you)

 

[CK Chickadilly]

It seems as though when I ordered these eggs someone on the BYC told me that the Cuckoo Silkies combs would be red. I would prefer it to be mulberry.... oh well

I can't remember who it was though.....UGH! Any way if anyone knows, chime in please!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

cuckoo's are a new color, and ive heard that it is very hard to get a cuckoo silkie with a mulberry comb. Ive also heard the same with buffs, but it isnt as hard to get a mulberry comb as with cuckoos.
Here is some info about cuckoo silkies. The 3 main problems with cuckoo silkies are the comb color, comb shape, and beak color. http://powderpuffsilkies.tripod.com/id11.html Some people breed the cuckoo silkies back to a black silkie to try to change the comb color back to black.

 

[CK Chickadilly]

I was just looking at the Powder Pff Silkie website last night, someone else posted it. Thanks!

What is the comb shape & beak color supposed to be?