Boy or girl silkie

[JosieChick]

Alright, more pictures! "she"

I hope) was much more comfortable with the second photo shoot so I hope these are a little better.

These silkies are sneaky and this bird is in with a couple very boisterous silkie cockerels so even if I was boy I wouldn't be making much noise.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I still vote girl. She is very round. The boys' whole body is taller, longer, more linear. Even without the streamers the boys looke different from the girls.

 

[JosieChick]

I know it looks like a girl and I am hoping three cedars silkies will be back on as this is one of her birds offspring from hatching eggs. I have several silkie cockerels so I know what they look like but I am afraid this bird is right at that deciding age. I had a partridge that I swore was a pullet and at 6 1/2 months that bird (after another silkie jumped on it and appeared to being trying to mate with it) threw it's head back and crowed!!! Then it grew beautiful streamers and got long and tall with a big mulberry comb. I have one of it's hatch mates that has looked like a boy all along and these two partridges looked so different for the longest time that I was flat out shocked when they both turned out to be cockerels! I was thinking of selling them as a pair! How foolish would I have felt.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Some of the combs stay very black. Comb colour on a silkie is not much of an indication except on cuckoo and some (not all) buffs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Try to check the space between the pelvic bones. If you have a full thumb width or more, and loose bones, probably a girl. If less than a finger width and tight, definitely a boy. The comb is awfully large for a girl, but there are some. Could also be a henny feathered boy, which eliminates streamers. I have a cock who is very feminine looking; I stopped entering him in shows when the judges kept marking his card "HEN." Trust me, he is a boy; I have offspring from eggs that he fertilized. And he cros and dances for his wives and will intervene if he thinks that I am not treating them in a properly fine manner.

 

[JosieChick]

I will try checking the pelvic bone width, not quite clear on how to do that but it might be easier once I pick up the bird.

None of the really nice silkies I have hatched have gotten very red in the comb, they get a deep burgundy color very late and quickly around 7-8 months of age. This bird looks and acts very much like a pullet but that lumpy comb concerns me. I will keep everyone posted!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Well at this time, I'm going to say pullet. But even though "she" doesn't have streamers, I'm still not 100% convinced. Some girls do have a bit of a comb. With her crest being large...and it will get even larger as she ages....you won't be able to see it. By this age, even my extra nice SQ cockerels have generally developed some streamers, but Sonoran is right...it can be a henny feathered male.

 

[JosieChick]

Thanks everyone! I will come back and post if we get a crow or an egg. I have the windows open and I can hear "her" ( I hope) doing her call to the bigger hens in the next pen and it is a very hen sounded bagawk so hopefully we will be a girl

 

[ChooksChick]

I'm voting pullet- 100%

 

[gavinandallison]

Any choices of sex for these?