Gender help, and breed for funsies? *pics*

[Josie]

Edited: okay I read the post that says chickens do not have gender, but I didn't want to put "Sex help"

I could really use some help on the sex of the chicks. I am hoping the gray and white ones are both girls, the two black and white ones in back, are boys, I think. Sorry I couldn't get better pictures

Their ages are: big bw-10 weeks, grey-9 weeks, and the other two are 8 weeks
I know the grey ones and the big bw one's parentage, and have the white ones and other bw possible parentage, if you want, you can guess, and I'll let you know later.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

The grey is a Silkie X and very cute. My guess would be a pullet.
The white one looks like a white rock roo to me.

 

[Bawkadoodledoo]

yeah, first one i looked at the face like, "SILKIE!" but i saw the feathers and thought "what the.. that's not a silkie!"

 

[ksacres]

The all white and ONE of the black and whites look male. The other two look female.

As for breeds:

Grey-Silkie X
White- White Rock
Other- SLW

 

[Josie]

You guys are good and guessing the breed!
I went back and tried to get better pictures of the bw chicks
8 weeks

10 weeks

The 10 week old is the largest of the four.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Regarding the bw chicks...
That first one looks like a Silver Spangled Hamburg...except for the legs, they should be slate and he looks too heavy for a hamburg... so I would guess a Barred rock (or white rock) crossed with a SSH.

The second a SLW.

 

[Josie]

I think the white and bw chicks came from a pen that had white leghorns males and females, barred rocks males and females, and silver laced wyandottes males and females.
The person who gave me the gray chick was pretty certain it was from a silkie splash rooster and silver laced wyandotte hen.

 

[Bawkadoodledoo]

Quote:
wouldn't the silkie Roo have a bit of trouble "doing his thing" with a hen that big?

 

[Josie]

You would think so.... but if I understood her right, the only rooster with access to the hen was another SLW and the silkie!

 

[speckledhen]

The last pic is a SLW cockerel. Not sure if he's pure or not, but he's very handsome! I like the Silkie cross-it does look like a pullet in that picture.


****Psst! You can say "gender" all you want, LOL!