Can anyone tell the genders?

[ChicksNherps]

Here are a couple pictures of my silkies, can anyone tell what gender they are yet? These pictures are from last month, I will be able to get some of this month tomorrow. The partridge and black both have small hard nubs on their back legs like starting of spurs but I read hens can sometimes have them as well. The black and splash both have some stiffer feathers growing in on their tails and the partridge is still round, but she is the youngest at 4 months and the other two didn't have them a couple weeks ago. Also, if it helps, the partridge is always following me and pecking at my feet, the black since yesterday has been chasing me around pecking my feet and biting me when that one used to be the most docile of the bunch, and the splash could care less and just does it's own thing. The oldest two I want to say are about 5 months now.

 

[mammasilkie]

they all look like hens from the pictures, the gray one might (and i use that very lightly) be a roo but without face pictures i cant really tell.

 

[ChicksNherps]

Okay I will get some pictures in the morning of their faces, their full bodies, and the backs of their legs. The splash actually doesn't have the hard nubs like the other two, which is strange because I also thought that one may be a roo. Plus it is much calmer than the other two.

 

[mammasilkie]

yea, i cant really tell but in the first picture theyall look like hens but in the second the gray kinda looks rooish. does it normaly stand taller then the others or lead them around and is it more talkative?

 

[ChicksNherps]

It actually used to be the chatty cathy of the bunch but now it just hangs out. I don't know who leads who, they all stick together for the most part and the partridge will occasionally stray off somewhere and come back, but the partridge does seem to lead them all out of the coop ion the morning to chase me to the stairs for food, it's almost like a race between that one and the black, the splash usually lags behind. The partridge can be quite a talker, so can the black, but if i pick up the splash and carry it back to the coop the others come following behind. so yeah...

 

[ChicksNherps]

Okay here are the pictures from today, I got head, body, and leg shots. The black's toes seem funky too? The last 2 are half way fused together?

 

[ChicksNherps]

Does anyone have an idea?????

 

[mynamesjenelle]

I'm sorry I don't know much about silkies, but those are the cutest fuzzy things I've ever seen. They look so tame too! I hope someone can help you out

 

[ChicksNherps]

Thanks =) Silkies are very docile (most of the time

) I hold mine upside-down like babies sometimes and the black one will nap in your arms.

 

[goosehead]

They look like girls