Lavender silkie juvie sex?

[LadiesAndJane]

Definitely a white Silkie, not a lavender. Looks to be female but I am not 100% sure. Can be tricky with well bred birds especially. A really good comb photo would be helpful with crest pushed back.

 

[Cynthia12]

This one was a tough one to tell the gender for a while. Hen..

 

[Asiakg]

I bought it from Anna Whybrew who sold it to me out of her lavender pen. She shows her lavenders and has placed with them in some pretty big shows. She worked really hard on her lavender line and I think this one just didn’t make the cut perhaps due to its very light coloring
I don’t think she’d risk her name by selling me the wrong color, but I can see how it could be mistaken for white. Maybe this one’s color isn’t coming across all that great with my crappy cell camera.
Here is one of her lavenders

 

[Asiakg]

Well, this bird isn't lavender - and you'd get black with leakage from a

Well, this bird isn't lavender - and you'd get black with leakage from a Lav x Buff. Not blue/cream.

I bought from Anna Whybrew out of her lavender pen, she’s got a very good reputation in my state and has some of the most beautiful lavenders.
She did tell me she was having an issue with a black hen she put into her lavender pen to improve the type in there kept throwing out partridge babies somehow but she didn’t say anything about whites being produced from that pen
Here are a couple of her lavenders
I can see now though that it’s color looks pretty washed out on the pics so it’s very easy to mistake it for white

 

[Asiakg]

Definitely a white Silkie, not a lavender. Looks to be female but I am not 100% sure. Can be tricky with well bred birds especially. A really good comb photo would be helpful with crest pushed back.

I will get one and post a picture of the comb and I’ll try to get some better pics of the color as well, this one is very light colored but it does have a blue/grey tone to it, especially it’s back. Anna Whybrew was its breeder and she has shown her lavenders and placed with them, maybe that’s why she sold this one is because it had such a pale color, so didn’t make it into her breeding program

 

[Asiakg]

Definitely a white Silkie, not a lavender. Looks to be female but I am not 100% sure. Can be tricky with well bred birds especially. A really good comb photo would be helpful with crest pushed back.

Ok well that was a LOT harder to get that picture than I thought it’d be turns out chickens do not like you pushing their fluff away from their face to get a picture of their combs
Here’s the best pics I could get of the combs while pushing the feathers back.

I think you can see it’s color a little better in this pic as well. It looks washed out in the photos but it’s a very very light blue/grey

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Ok well that was a LOT harder to get that picture than I thought it’d be turns out chickens do not like you pushing their fluff away from their face to get a picture of their combs
Here’s the best pics I could get of the combs while pushing the feathers back.

I think you can see it’s color a little better in this pic as well. It looks washed out in the photos but it’s a very very light blue/grey

I know photos do not always show color well. Maybe it’s like that dress on the internet a few years ago, but this bird looks white to me.
Beautiful bird and looking very female with the comb.