Mom to beginning 4-H'ers needing help!

[hisfirstwife]

Can someone please help me correctly identify these chickens?
My worst fear right now is marking my son's silkie as the wrong gender!



I have no clue what the breed of this bantam is:

I believe this is a dutch bantam:

Any clues on if this silkie is a rooster or hen? It's comb looks so much different than the other 4 we have.....is it crossbred?

Thank you for your help - this is our family's first year in 4-H but have sold eggs for about 4 years with Rhode Island Reds

Mandy

 

[wyliefarms]

nice chickens!

Does the chicken lay eggs or crow or is it young?

 

[babymakes6]

Maybe if you post a couple more pics of different angles of your Silkie, you would get more help. To me, it looks like a roo, and yes, pure.

 

[hisfirstwife]

They are all about 7 months old....no eggs yet. That is the best side shot of that silkie I could get.....the rest of the 16 pictures I took were just white blurs!!! LOL
Please correct me if I identified that Dutch Bantam wrong....I'm totally new at this and finding pictures to compare on the internet is about impossible.

 

[Dustin Biery]

Is it just me or does that Silkie have vulture hocks?

 

[EweSheep]

the Dutch bantam pictured is NOT a Dutch Bantam, they supposed to have round WHITE earlobes. It looks like an OE.

The first pic looks like a birchen color. Not sure of breed but maybe an oversized OE.

The white Silky looksl ike a roo from his comb color and the size of it.

Good luck on your shows!

 

[wyliefarms]

Seems to me that if you have girls, you should be getting eggs by now.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Not from a silkie--especially not from that silkie. He could be crowing, though, and if not yet, any day now.

 

[Dustin Biery]

Ok, Sonoran, can you address the vulture hocks on the silkie? Isn't that a DQ for silkies?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes. However, I've only ever known of one judge who noticed them. And that same judge made some huge errors--DQing all buff silkies becuase they all had at least a bit of black in the feathering--mind you now, these were all very good quality birds, and none had more than traces of black in the wings/tails. Also giving hte Best AOV award to a recognised variety.