Guess these silkies genders!

[FatChicksDigMe]

I got only the first girl right, I'm bad at this lol. I'm so happy you got mostly girls, although the roos are too cute

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I got only the first girl right, I'm bad at this lol. I'm so happy you got mostly girls, although the roos are too cute

Thanks! The point of this exercise was to demonstrate that even tricks like looking at comb width and crest at this young age are not accurate enough for silkie sexing.

 

[Arelwood]

I know this is an old post, but I guessed the first 2 right! I didn't feel like I could make a guess based on the other 2's photos.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Fun, and adorable silkies!! Thank you for sharing and demonstrating the difficulties of trying to figure out the gender of baby silkies! I'm never certain until at least two months, preferably three.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I know this is an old post, but I guessed the first 2 right! I didn't feel like I could make a guess based on the other 2's photos.

Good job!
The point is you had a 50-50 chance of getting right on each chick, Honestly I think it’s just luck.
I have two Silkie chicks currently that I know the genders of as I just had them DNA tested. See if you can guess on these two. They are three weeks old today and full sibs.
Chick A:

Chick B:

 

[Arelwood]

I love this. I would totally play this game all day long.

For these, I say both female?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I love this. I would totally play this game all day long.

For these, I say both female?

Yup!

 

[Arelwood]

Yup!

Excuse me, I'm going to quit my day job!

 

[pugspigchicks]

That’s great! Glad you got mostly pullets

Lots of threads recently with silkie sexing, comb width etc. Thought it would be interesting to look back on some of my birds when younger and see if folks could guess their genders based on combs at fairly young ages. I found 4 that have all been gender ID via DNA testing and have since grown enough to verify the accuracy (100%). All the birds pictured were between 4-8 weeks of age at the time of the photos, the age most people post on this forum looking for answers. Chick 1 only has one photo, the others have two photos each. Good luck!
I will follow up with the correct results.

Chick 1
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Chick 2
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Chick 3
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Chick 4
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This is great. I’m looking at my 3 week old silkies and think I have all boys based on combs lol. I have hope now.