can anyone tell the gender of my Silkie's

[mkwinkel]

these are my Silkie chickens. They are 14 weeks old. Can anyone tell which ones are male and which ones are females for me?

 

[nchls school]

If you post pictures that clearly show the tail and comb/neck it would be easier to help you. With the pictures you have posted, I would guess that top is a rooster, second is a hen, and after that the pictures are unclear.

 

[LouBlue95]

Silkie roosters heads still have strings and their tail is more string like also
and the hens don't their more round and puffy you can tell the difference

 

[LouBlue95]

The brown one looks like a pullet
Gray and brown a male

 

[mkwinkel]

Thank you, I'll try to get better pictures.

 

[mkwinkel]

Hopefully these are better pictures

 

[LouBlue95]

A male

 

[brideofchaos]

I'd say roo on the partridge for sure, between the mulberry comb and the streamers. QUESTION: For silkie tail feathers, do the roos usually have more "true" tail feathers (sickle shaped) whereas the female are mainly pom-pom tails with minimal feathers?

 

[TheLukeMeister]

I'd say roo on the partridge for sure, between the mulberry comb and the streamers. QUESTION: For silkie tail feathers, do the roos usually have more "true" tail feathers (sickle shaped) whereas the female are mainly pom-pom tails with minimal feathers?

Yup.

 

[brideofchaos]

Yup.

Thanks a bunch! That really helps me with my own 2-month-old silkies. I was LEANING in that direction, since two of my buffs and one of my blacks have significant sickle feathers and the others don't. A couple have the beginning of a comb but nothing outrageous and several already have streamers.