Male chick but no comb

[Jayden Owens]

I have four 2 month old silkie chicks and for a while now I suspected they are 2 female and 2 male. The two I think are males have noticeably grown larger than the other two, but only one of them has a comb. They both stand and behave like adolescent roosters, but the one chick hasn't even developed so much as a nub, it has 2 potential fathers and both had large combs that developed about the same time as the current chick (one had a walnut comb and the other has a single comb. I was so sure it was a male chick but I see absolutely no growth development as the other is already getting its wattle. Everything else about them is growing at a healthy rate so I can tell if it's a male or female chick. Is it perchance possible I got a female chick that's growing a little faster?

They did have two different behaviors while I was taking pictures, the one with the comb freaked out nearly the whole time fighting to get away and i had to hold him against me to get some clear pictures, while the no comb one did freak out a little at first but was quick to calm down and i only had to hold my hand over the top of them

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They are a bit too young to sex. Silkies can take longer to show the sexual differences. I wouldn't necessarily go by size at 8 weeks. Silkies can range in size depending on breeding. Both sexes will spar at this age as well.

That being said the single comb one is showing pink already, and the walnut comb one has a wide comb, so your hunches may be right, but I definitely would wait a while longer.