Roo or hen?

[Whitney0h]

 

[Sagey_7878]

Hi, please post better picture in daylight, with more focused images and better images of it standing, so we can see it’s full body. Thanks.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

age is also a big factor; need to know how old it is.

 

[Whitney0h]

5 months

 

[AllenK RGV]

5 months

Looks like you have head streamers on the back of the head. Is this one very low in the pecking order? A silkie cockerel should be crowing or learning to crow at 5 months unless it is at the bottom of the order with other cockerels.

I agree better photos would be helpful.

 

[Whitney0h]

Hi, please post better picture in daylight, with more focused images and better images of it standing, so we can see it’s full body. Thanks.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I have 4 Silkie cockerels who are 1 week shy of their 8 month birthday. Can you possibly get a better closer picture of the hackle feathers with the back of the head?
To my eye from the photo above I honestly could not tell you. Potential head streamers are what I still see, then an anemic looking set of hackle feathers, no big fat walnut comb(comb photo please)....The tail says maybe.... still that chicken is ambiguous to me. Would this one be the first rooster in your flock if it is one? Reason I ask is heshe should be wing flapping other hens to claim them, at 5 months mine were mating the pullets and crowing. Does this bird flare the hackles when in a standoff with others?

 

[Whitney0h]

I have 4 Silkie cockerels who are 1 week shy of their 8 month birthday. Can you possibly get a better closer picture of the hackle feathers with the back of the head?
To my eye from the photo above I honestly could not tell you. Potential head streamers are what I still see, then an anemic looking set of hackle feathers, no big fat walnut comb(comb photo please)....The tail says maybe.... still that chicken is ambiguous to me. Would this one be the first rooster in your flock if it is one? Reason I ask is heshe should be wing flapping other hens to claim them, at 5 months mine were mating the pullets and crowing. Does this bird flare the hackles when in a standoff with others?

She/he is not aggressive but is definitely the alpha (gets food first). It’s the friendliest chicken I have (I only have 3). Also, no crowing but it’s more verbal than the others.

 

[AllenK RGV]

My vote is pullet then. Without the answers to the previously listed questions and updated photos of those requested specific features.

Not crowing by 5 months of age is about all the data I have to go on as the photos were not all that helpful.

 

[Whitney0h]

I have 4 Silkie cockerels who are 1 week shy of their 8 month birthday. Can you possibly get a better closer picture of the hackle feathers with the back of the head?
To my eye from the photo above I honestly could not tell you. Potential head streamers are what I still see, then an anemic looking set of hackle feathers, no big fat walnut comb(comb photo please)....The tail says maybe.... still that chicken is ambiguous to me. Would this one be the first rooster in your flock if it is one? Reason I ask is heshe should be wing flapping other hens to claim them, at 5 months mine were mating the pullets and crowing. Does this bird flare the hackles when in a standoff with others?

I’ve not ever seen it do the wing flapping or ever try to mate or flare hackles.