Help with Silkie sexing

murphynhazel12

Songster
5 Years
Jul 4, 2020
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Posting a new thread to update: here are pictures of my 14 week old silkie "pullet" that I'm starting to think is a cockerel. I need help definitively determining gender because if he is a rooster I need to talk to the seller and replace him.. lol. Yeah I know that she has a single comb and isn't standard too.
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Looks like a cockerel to me, but could change in the next few weeks. Is the bird from a hatchery/feed store or from show quality parentage? If you have other silkies, do this bird stand more straight and upright? Does it "act like a Cockerel"? I'm talking grabbing onto hens necks and not letting go, chasing them around, puff neck feathers and fight with confirmed cockerels.
 
Looks like a cockerel to me, but could change in the next few weeks. Is the bird from a hatchery/feed store or from show quality parentage? If you have other silkies, do this bird stand more straight and upright? Does it "act like a Cockerel"? I'm talking grabbing onto hens necks and not letting go, chasing them around, puff neck feathers and fight with confirmed cockerels.
The bird is from a breeder, but I don't know where they get their birds from. This one does seem to stand tall, but there are plenty of confident pullets out there, lol. They're definitely something of a bully because they like to peck, chase, and fight the other birds.
If it is a cockerel, I need to look into rehoming him.
 

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