I have one Serama, and four silkies.

[Onechicktwochickthree]

How does the comb look on your little white silkie? To me it looks like the crest is still growing in so the crest may not be a great indicator of sex yet. How old is the silkie now? I'll usually have streamers showing up on my boys by 12 weeks.

Right now, I have photos of both I took today, I can't recall their age completely without looking back on this post but I will post a recent photo. Excuse the delay in responding I've been unwell.

 

[Onechicktwochickthree]

I'm guessing 8-9 weeks 10-11 maximum, ill find out for sure eventually as I wrote everything down, it's always too late to check when I get on here. That's my almost silent five toed silkie, and my Serama Cockeral.

I've noticed my large breeds love the cockeral Serama but always attack the white one. Not sure if it's because just maybe, I'm wrong and it's a female and who wants another female in the flock.

Serama has a fancy for a girl of mine, he tries so hard to get her but she's a large breed he has no chance. But he don't half try. White one, literally does nothing. Isn't interested in making nose at 5am, isn't interested in the females... If he/she didn't eat and breath I'd assume it was a toy.
We have a few more Seramas a couple of weeks from hatching if all goes well. Be nice to get a few hens.

 

[LynnaePB]

I'm sorry to hear you've been feeling unwell.

I'm still not sure about your silkie. It may take a bit more time to be able to sex. Most of my silkies do not crow at your little ones age. Some take over 5 months before I hear their first crow. Not to say that some don't start early but I wouldn't count absence of crowing as a sign of gender until later on.

In one of the photos it kind of looks like the start of streamers. The other pictures I'm not sure about, it may just be a crest that is still growing in and a bit swept back. It's a little hard for me to tell from the photos though, I'd wait until the crest is a bit more grown in to really judge it.

The comb is pretty small and just off the comb alone I'd lean more towards the little silkie being a pullet.

I'd say you may have to give it a bit more time, though I am leaning slightly towards pullet at this point given your description, the stance, and the small comb.

Good luck with your upcoming Serama hatch, I hope you get some little pullets out of it!

 

[Onechicktwochickthree]

Thank you for responding. I would be very happy if silkie is a pullet. I will cross fingers but even if a roo, it will stay regardless.

We only unfortunately got 2 chicks out of the recent hatch, but they're absolutely adorable.

 

[LynnaePB]

Thank you for responding. I would be very happy if silkie is a pullet. I will cross fingers but even if a roo, it will stay regardless.View attachment 2373215

We only unfortunately got 2 chicks out of the recent hatch, but they're absolutely adorable.

Aww sorry to hear your hatch didn't go better, congratulations on the two adorable little ones who did hatch though!

Your silkie has such a tiny comb, I'm really thinking it's probably a little pullet at this point. She is beautiful!

 

[Onechicktwochickthree]

Aww sorry to hear your hatch didn't go better, congratulations on the two adorable little ones who did hatch though!

Your silkie has such a tiny comb, I'm really thinking it's probably a little pullet at this point. She is beautiful!

She's certainly acting like one!!

That makes me very happy. We had black ones that all turned out and looked 100% opposite gender, with massive combs but they were larger and not miniature silkies(like this white one)

I kept this one as it was the only miniature and only white, I have had my toes and fingers crossed for a long time that it was female.

As for the two Seramas, I saw a post of someone doing the feather/wing method to sex and have to say, people judge it but it worked for all my silkies, not only did I guess the genders from that method on hatch day, I saw for myself when they aged...

Seems my two Serama Chicks are both genders. Ive nit tested the method by handling them yet as ive not had time but i will be tomorrow, Sadly I'll have to rehome the cockeral if I can't get a few female bantams, serama are so hard to hatch, i coukd be doing this forever. . Can't be having two males with only the two female- silkie and Serama. Wish i had the space for all of them. Im already having to sweeten my neighbours with free eggs from my larger breeds to stop them complaining when serama wakes them at 5am

 

[LynnaePB]

She's certainly acting like one!!

That makes me very happy. We had black ones that all turned out and looked 100% opposite gender, with massive combs but they were larger and not miniature silkies(like this white one)

I kept this one as it was the only miniature and only white, I have had my toes and fingers crossed for a long time that it was female.

As for the two Seramas, I saw a post of someone doing the feather/wing method to sex and have to say, people judge it but it worked for all my silkies, not only did I guess the genders from that method on hatch day, I saw for myself when they aged...

Seems my two Serama Chicks are both genders. Ive nit tested the method by handling them yet as ive not had time but i will be tomorrow, Sadly I'll have to rehome the cockeral if I can't get a few female bantams, serama are so hard to hatch, i coukd be doing this forever. . Can't be having two males with only the two female- silkie and Serama. Wish i had the space for all of them. Im already having to sweeten my neighbours with free eggs from my larger breeds to stop them complaining when serama wakes them at 5am

Good luck getting some more little female serama! I'd heard they were hard to hatch but I didn't know quite how hard! That is great the feather sexing method works with them. It worked wonderfully for the mixes I hatched when I was younger. It doesn't work with my silkies unfortunately, too bad since it is so convenient!