Help I don’t know what I’m doing

Ponypeople118

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Jul 12, 2020
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I have always been able to tell pullets from cockerels.....until I got these silkies. The oldest is about 18 weeks (black) the youngest is about 14 weeks (white). I see no behaviors that make me think one way or another and when I got them I totally guessed on sex with some educated guessing on the pet of the lady that sold them to me
 

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These look pretty girly to me, the white one is the only one I'm on the fence about. Crested birds the females have nice round globes and the males have streamers in Silkies - some feathers that are obviously longer - are sometimes backswept, and in polish the crests on males are Phyllis Diller-ish, kind of wild looking.
 
Sometimes little fur beasts are hard to tell until they either crow or lay an egg. I do agree these look feminine though.

Hopefully by bumping it up someone with more Silkie experience will see it and give their opinion.
 

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