Please don't be a roo!!!

[hdowden]

my hens comb isn't even that big

look my parents have hens with small combs and hens with big combs again it all depends on the background of the chicken so please stop saying the same thing over and over again thank you

 

[farmer boy]

look my parents have hens with small combs and hens with big combs again it all depends on the background of the chicken so please stop saying the same thing over and over again thank you

im not well what are hers is it a hatchery or not if it is then its a hen and if its not then its a roo so

 

[Silkie Chicken]

it is hatchery

 

[hdowden]

looks just like one of my parents hatchery silkies even their cockerels combs are way bigger than yours . the crest is fairly rounded with no streamers

 

[PekinBantam]

Roo

 

[kays chicks]

That's a little roo, the ops buff silkie is a tough one at 6 months I would have expected crowing but if you have others it may be holding back, it doesn't look very pullet like going by the pics so I have voted roo. I hatched 4 silkies, all turned into roos and all started crowing like clock work at 4 months they all seemed to develop roughly at the same time too so there are variations.

yes i already thought a roo wa just seeing what you all think , 'MEG' is his / her name and is a very confident chick and chest bumps often with anything that will chest bump hahahah thank you for looking and adding your opinion

 

[Silkie Chicken]

So can everyone come to a conclusion

 

[Hinotori]

I don't make judgement on silkies until they show actual secondary characteristics, or lay an egg. The hackle feathers on males get sort of coarse and much thicker than a hen.

The hatchery silkies I had before the males started crowing about 10-12 week. The non hatchery ones I have now, the male started crowing and growing in male feathers and a big comb at 8 months, about a week after the first pullet that age started laying. Thought he was a girl before that.

The one pullet I have that is a few weeks younger, I thought was a cockerel for the longest time. She doesn't have as big of a crest as the other two pullets, and looks a lot like the cockerel did before he started growing in his big boy feathers.

This is the 10 month old pullet, she's my only laying silkie at the moment. She has a fairly large comb.

 

[MamaRudey]

thats not true again mine is 20 weeks no crowing so people stop saying this thanks .. for the crowing

Yep. My blue silkie is 23 weeks and crowed for the first time this morning.

 

[leadwolf1]

So can everyone come to a conclusion

I say pullet!