Gender check? Mixed group

JaceAgain

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Just want to see what you think :)
3-4 weeks old EE


5 Week old SLW "A"


5 week old SLW "B"



Almost 8 weeks silkie partridge



8-9 week silkie white



 
Your EE and SLWs look like pullets to me. :) I'm going to say that the partridge Silkie is a pullet and that the white Silkie is a roo, for now. Silkies are harder to sex, so try the Silkie Sexing thread and posting more picture when they are older too.
 
Thank you! The SLW and EE are supposed to be pulllets, so thats good you think they are too (I'm not sure what to look for in them).
The silkies, the white one is twice the size of the other two, and he is only a week older tops, its more like a couple days older, so with that and his mannerisms, I'm pretty sure he is a roo. The partridge is just now getting her head feathers in this past couple days, and she is a bit smaller, and hasn't acted like a roo at all but I know that isn't a real sign anyway.
 
Thank you! The SLW and EE are supposed to be pulllets, so thats good you think they are too (I'm not sure what to look for in them).
The silkies, the white one is twice the size of the other two, and he is only a week older tops, its more like a couple days older, so with that and his mannerisms, I'm pretty sure he is a roo. The partridge is just now getting her head feathers in this past couple days, and she is a bit smaller, and hasn't acted like a roo at all but I know that isn't a real sign anyway. 

Your white Silkie is probably a a cockerel then. The Partridge one looks just like how my Silkie pullet when she started getting her crest in.
 
I"m gonna ditto above.....EE and SLW look pullet (EE for sure due to color.) I raised silkies for years and while I"m leaning towards parti pullet and white roo, they are SO hard to tell until they mature......which also seems to take forever! LOL! Most of my silkie hens didn't start laying until 8 months. But then they layed well. I had one that I SWORE was a roo until I saw an egg pop out! LOL! (Her name was Butch, bwahaha!) Cute lil flock you have there!
 
With the silkies keep and eye on the top of the head feathers .. That helped me with mine. I have to pullets and one roo... The roo had streamers and the other 2 had puff ball heads
 
Just want to see what you think :)
3-4 weeks old EE
Based on coloring and comb development, I'm going to say pullet.

5 Week old SLW "A"
Probably pullet, but I"m not 100% sure--Wyandottes are hard to sex accurately until they are older.

5 week old SLW "B"

Same guess as above; probably pullet.

Almost 8 weeks silkie partridge

Not sure.

8-9 week silkie white



Comb development makes me think cockerel, but Silkies are often extremely difficult to sex until they either crow or lay an egg.
 

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