sexing 11 week old silkies

[AnimalLover99]

i bought 4 silkies unsexed and am not allowed to have roosters. i know it wont be a hundred percent acurate, but i just wanted to have an idea of what sexes these might be. (11 weeks old) (first two are same chick)
chick 1 (suspected boy)


chick 2 (suspected girl)


chick 3


chick 4

 

[froggiesheins]

Wish I could help you more, all I suspect is that they are too cute for their own good!
But I sort of lean to boy on number 1 too......

 

[ChickensRDinos]

I would also guess a boy for number one because he looks like he has a nice big nut forming over his beak. (although I know silkies are notorious hard to sex) I also bought unsexed silkie chicks for my no-roosters-allowed home and had the same thing happen. The breeder I bought them from told me to watch for that and sure enough it slowly started to appear then one day the crowing started. I was very sad because he was so sweet and so pretty, but I exchanged him for a second try. My hen was much smaller and had no nut at all. Good luck! I LOVE silkies so much.

Here is the rooster. Fabulous. (The hen is my avatar)

 

[AnimalLover99]

also i noticed that two of them have very bright blue earlobes, and the other ones have duller earlobes. could this have something to do with their sex?

 

[ChickensRDinos]

I have read that the color of the earlobes has to do with the color of the eggs the bird lays. However I am not certain this is always true and I don't know how it applies to silkies.

 

[hokankai]

Do you have pics of their bodies? I could probably put in a guess from a sideways view of their whole body as well as a shot of their combs.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

The more pronounced the comb and the bigger/redder the wattles... the more likely they are to be roo
I think 1 could be male...

I have showgirls and one silkie
This is mine at 10 weeks

^ Roo @ 10 weeks

^ Roo at 20 weeks




^ Hen at 10 weeks

^ Hen at 20 weeks (However, she does crow

)

I hope that helps!

 

[catnipchickens]

I've heard Silkies can be hard to sex even up to 6 months old age. But in my opinion, #1 looks like a roo, #2 looks like a female, #3 *might* (I stress this) be a roo, and #4 might (another stress here) be a female. They're surely cute though, so congratulations on them anyway.


Dee

Raising BD's, SS's, & Silkies

 

[AnimalLover99]

thank you for all your guesses, pics, and info! i will try to post pics of there bodies either tomorrow or the next day