Aggressive silkie help please!

[MysteryChicken]

I lean that's going cockerel. It could be genes, but wow, never saw wattles like that on a silkie pullet, and looks like hackles coming in, but then again, it's got the round puffy vault, not messy like a cockerel.

It's just guessing here, so I'd give it another couple of weeks, and it should be definitive.

Beardless Silkies get wattles. It's pretty much all I raise is beardless. I do have a few Bearded though.

Only difference with this bird id single comb, & dark face.

 

[Hloren]

I lean that's going cockerel. It could be genes, but wow, never saw wattles like that on a silkie pullet, and looks like hackles coming in, but then again, it's got the round puffy vault, not messy like a cockerel.

It's just guessing here, so I'd give it another couple of weeks, and it should be definitive.

I just sent her DNA in for sexing and she’s a confirmed female! Beardless silkies get wattles.
Any advice on correcting her aggression towards me? It’s focused on the coop front door when I open it. She won’t attack me inside the coop or in the yard.

 

[Debbie292d]

I just sent her DNA in for sexing and she’s a confirmed female! Beardless silkies get wattles.
Any advice on correcting her aggression towards me? It’s focused on the coop front door when I open it. She won’t attack me inside the coop or in the yard.

Awesome!

Yes, beardless silkies have wattles, obviously! We have a couple of beardless silkies, and many bearded, and they have wattles. Yours just looked so big for her age.


To break her, it'd be the same as I suppose a rooster. We don't have very many roosters that turn on us, but for those that do they get locked up for a few weeks, or sometimes the water hose. A squirt sends them running. Usually they outgrow it. If they don't, and nothing works, we cull.