moody silkie

[chuckachucka]

I have a silkie chick being raised by a hen. The chick is now ten weeks old. There were two of them and the physical and behavioural differences between them were so pronounced that I was almost certain one was male and one female even at this young age. So I rehomed the male and only have the female left. She still sleeps with her surrogate mother but the hen no longer feeds her. This is my first time raising silkies and I got the fertile eggs because I had heard such good things about silkies.
however, the little silkie pullet is far from the friendly chicken I expected! I realise she is still young but she is very skittish, cheeps around her mother all the time as if scared of the world, squawks' bloody murder if I try to pick her up and will peck the heck out of me if I dare to reach into the coop when she is in there. She also seems to hate the other young chicks I have at the moment (pekins) and keeps pecking at them and trying to pull out their feathers whenever she corners them. Is this normal behaviour for a silkie of this age? I know most pullets get more friendly after starting to lay but my Pekin chicks are so cute and friendly and they are the same age. It's very disappointing.

 

[chuckachucka]

is it possible the chick is a male after all? I was confident she was female because when there were two, the other one was much bigger and braver, ate twice as much and didn't develop much of a crest plus his comb grew bigger. By comparison the remaining chick was smaller, more timid, had less of an appetite, grew a large crest and has small wattles and comb. So I was sure it was one male and one female. But I know its very hard to tell with silkies.