Is this a frizzle?

[MadsTaylor]

This baby is a week old today. It's mom is frizzle. The tips of its wings stick out from the body, and they are crimped.

 

[Slothinc]

I think there’s a chance it could be frizzle but you may have to wait several more days to know for sure!! Cute baby!!

 

[MadsTaylor]

I think there’s a chance it could be frizzle but you may have to wait several more days to know for sure!! Cute baby!!

Thank you! We are so excited! We love the millie pattern. We have a mille de fleur d'uccle roo that's beloved, but these are our first millie silkies!

 

[Slothinc]

That is so much fun! Mille fleur is so beautiful - I love seeing silkies with that gorgeous pattern. Hope your baby ends up frizzled. I have 3 frizzled silkie hens (2 satin, 1 showgirl silkie) and 2 frizzled chicks growing out right now. They are just so cute!

 

[MadsTaylor]

That is so much fun! Mille fleur is so beautiful - I love seeing silkies with that gorgeous pattern. Hope your baby ends up frizzled. I have 3 frizzled silkie hens (2 satin, 1 showgirl silkie) and 2 frizzled chicks growing out right now. They are just so cute!

That is awesome!! We are hoping for a frizzle (hen fingers crossed)! My 3 year old is obsessed with the silkies, and we've been waiting for a frizzle baby.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

It could be but you'll probably have to wait another week or two to know for sure.

 

[Slothinc]

If you want to, you can take a picture of the baby with the wing spread out (taking the photo from the top looking down on the wing) and post it here.

Someone was saying that they have a theory of how to sex chicks by looking at the wing like that at a week old. My grow outs were too old to test at that point but I had taken a photo of two of them with the wing spread out and they were retroactively sexed accurately.

 

[Slothinc]

Here were my two that I had taken a photo of the wing. The theory is that the feathers will all be about the same length in a male, and the secondaries (closer to the bottom) will be shorter in a female. It was accurate with my two chicks that I happened to have wing photos of. The one with the feathers all the same length was a boy and the one with two different lengths was a girl. I’ll definitely be trying this with my next batch!

I do believe it was @MysteryChicken who told me about this. I definitely give them all the credit, as I never would have thought to look at this. @MysteryChicken Do you have a thread about your sexing theory? If not, you should make one, I think you are totally on to something here!!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Here were my two that I had taken a photo of the wing. The theory is that the feathers will all be about the same length in a male, and the secondaries (closer to the bottom) will be shorter in a female. It was accurate with my two chicks that I happened to have wing photos of. The one with the feathers all the same length was a boy and the one with two different lengths was a girl. I’ll definitely be trying this with my next batch!

I do believe it was @MysteryChicken who told me about this. I definitely give them all the credit, as I never would have thought to look at this. @MysteryChicken Do you have a thread about your sexing theory? If not, you should make one, I think you are totally on to something here!!

"In order for feather sexing to be accurate, it must be specifically bred for and involves controlled matings and selection." You have to have a specific mix of slow and fast feathering parents for this to be accurate. If it were this simple, chick vent sexing wouldn't be such a lucrative field