Anyone an expert silkie sexer and want to take a guess on these 8?

NMellow

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They’re all around 8-10 weeks. I got them from a local feed store and they looked to be about a week or 2. I’ve had them a little under 8 weeks. I know silkies are hard to sex.
 

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I raise and breed silkies and you don't want me guessing as at that age, I'd say they're all cockerels.

Give it a couple of more weeks. They are very pretty though, and it won't be too much longer and you'll know.

You will start seeing the girls tails coming in neat and curving down, and the boys kind of a mess. You'll see the boys getting a large "walnut" looking comb, and the girls a much smaller version of that. You will also start seeing "hackles" coming from the neck of the cockerels, which are longer streaming like feathers. The girls have more pronounced pom poms on their heads and no streamers blending those in.
 

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