Boy or Girl? Silkies-Update on Pg 2!

[JayDe]

It's nice to hear she's a "nice lookin" bird! Thanks for everyone who's replying... Now I'm curious, since a couple people have said the Partridge is a pullet, can people tell me why they think its a pullet and why they think it's a cockerel?

Someone mentioned Penciling, what is that? I guess I should look it up.

Thanks for everyone's opinions! Keep em coming!

 

[silkieluver_07]

I can show you some pictures of penciling

The first few pictures are of my partridge boy, Ranger. I'm pretty sure the males do not display penciling but I am still learning about the partridge variety. Males will also develop streamers from their crest which helps in identifying their gender. Streamers resemble a "swept back appearance".

Here is Rachelle when I first brought her home. She has penciling (looks similar to barring in a way, at least to me haha).

Another picture of her back from her first show

It is possible for pullets to lack penciling though. Rachelle's sisters don't show much penciling at all compared to her.

Regina-

Rhonda-

Hope this helped a litle bit for ya!

 

[spamee34]

I mean no harm when I say this but those things are so ugly they are cute!! To me they look like a big colorful cotton ball. I live in east texas we don't see these kind very much most folks here just want layers, so these are the first good pics I have had to look at LOL. Pretty birds tho.

 

[JayDe]

Thanks silkieluver_07, The close resemblance to "barring" is what confused me. I kept looking up penciling and thinking..ok, not seeing it. Now I get it.

I've seen Ranger on the boards before. He's one of the reasons I got a partridge bird when I got Dudley

 

[Chickenfur]

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how could you possibly think they are ugly!? they're adorable!!!!!

 

[shay20]

Splash is a girl and soooooooo beautiful
blue is a boy
partridge girl

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Thanks for the partridge pictures! I have a 12-wk old partridge and she definitely looks like your girls. Big round crest and no streamers at all. It helped!

 

[PremierSilkies]

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Why I think the partridge is a boy, body stance (tail angle, back, legnth of legs) the way is stands/holds itself (look hard between the blue boy and him, compared to the splash pullet) the way the wings tye into the tail/cushion area, crest (parted, larger comb, swept back look), coloring is that of a male, The hard tail feathers are another reason. Some males can be late or very lil amount of streamers.

I have a bunch of partridge that came out of my white line, it should be great fun to see how they finish out. Have not had partridge or buff since I sold out to Chick A Dee a few years ago. Please share pics on how the three develope in the future!

Connie

 

[JayDe]

Update for those of you who guessed on the chicks. Right after I posted, I confirmed that the blue was crowing.

The partridge started crowing this morning--it was pretty amusing because he has a really high pitched "voice"...we joked about his lack of male-ness..

The white one is still really small and no crowing, she's probably really a girl, which everyone thought and we have thought since the beginning.

Now we have some decisions to make. We have 2 cockerals and 1 pullet in one small coop...that can't possibly turn out ok...

Out in the big coop, I have one rooster with 4 girls..and so far they are beating him up. (These are the EEs and Orpingtons..finally merged)

Not sure what we'll do.