Partridge silkies.

[Ms Steak]

Any chance of a guess her please? Not mine yet, so I am having to use the pictures the present owner sent me. Both 9 weeks old.

Chick one looks like a pullet to me.




Chick 2 I am not so sure of.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Chick 1. Pullet. Chick 2. Leaning towards cockerel but I'm not 100% percent sure.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

It was a great idea to ask for the genders before you buy. Think about it… why would some sell two 8 week old healthy 'pullets'?

 

[Ms Steak]

Chick 1. Pullet. Chick 2. Leaning towards cockerel but I'm not 100% percent sure.

I am thinking the same. I can`t keep roosters, so it will be a case of deciding when I go to see them later. Thank you!

It was a great idea to ask for the genders before you buy. Think about it… why would some sell two 8 week old healthy 'pullets'?

The seller hasn`t said they are pullets. She may have had more hatch than she can cope with. I will keep you up to date.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

See, I was thinking chick 1 cockerel, chick 2 pullet. With partridge, most of the time the boys are more red and the girls are more blonde/brown. But, with Silkies you sometimes get girly looking roosters and manly looking hens.
And folks sell healthy pullets all the time, by the way. I just recently let some beautiful Silkie pullets (at least I'm pretty sure they were pullets, I never guarantee the sex of a Silkie unless its already laying or crowing) go. You just can't keep them all and what wont work for my breeding program might really help someone elses.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Chick 1= Pullet
Chick 2= Cockerel

 

[Ms Steak]

Thank you for your replies. Once I was there they looked very different. How Funkey, the one I thought was a pullet was so brightly coloured, I feel pretty sure it will be a roo. The other one had backwards growing feathers, so I wasn`t sure about that one either. Luckily there was 2 more to see, so I have those. One I feel very confident is a pullet as she is very small, and has lots of gold blonde, the other is nearly black, but has a lovely round top knot. Fingers crossed for me please.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

It's good to ask just incase you accidently buy a cockerel.

 

[Ms Steak]

I hope I didn`t.