Sexing - roo or hen and eggs/incubation

[Stace2025]

Hi, I think I know the answer to this but would love some feeedback - is my white Silkie a rooster - not crowing but certainly looks like a boy even though I was told it was a ‘she’ last month. Also curious as to wheather my orange Batam is a hen - I’m not 100% sure. My grey Silkie started laying eggs although she’s only 5ish months old and they look fertilised so either the white Silkie or bantam is a boy. The white Silkie is only 4 months old - if it’s a rooster and has fertilised the 5 months old silkies eggs will they develop into chicks or are they to young to produce chicks (the egg yolk has the round imprint in it showing it’s fertilised). We tried to put a few in an incubator but after 7 days nothing when candeling?

 

[Quaicken108]

Silkie is male. Bantam is female.

 

[Chookchicken]

I agree with the @Quaicken108. Silkie is a cockerel, and bantam is pullet. Can i quickly say though how cute your bantam is, what breed is she?

 

[Stace2025]

I agree with the @Quaicken108. Silkie is a cockerel, and bantam is pullet. Can i quickly say though how cute your bantam is, what breed is she?

Thankyou! She’s a Pekin - the chicken in your profile pic looks identical to my grey silkie!

 

[NatJ]

The white Silkie is only 4 months old - if it’s a rooster and has fertilised the 5 months old silkies eggs will they develop into chicks or are they to young to produce chicks (the egg yolk has the round imprint in it showing it’s fertilised).

If the female is old enough to lay eggs, and the male is able to mate so the eggs are fertile, then the eggs should be able to hatch.

We tried to put a few in an incubator but after 7 days nothing when candeling?

If you can't see any development, then either you're not seeing clearly enough, or there's something wrong with the incubator and they're no developing, or they are not fertile and that's why they're not developing.

I've tried cracking eggs open to see if they were fertile, then incubating eggs laid by the same hens the day before or the day after. None of my "fertile" ones ever developed. I eventually decided that I cannot tell fertile eggs from infertile ones by cracking them & looking. (Other people might be able to tell, but I could not.)

 

[ButtonHoarder]

I agree, Silkie is male and Pekin is female.

They’re both so cute!

 

[Mutchi]

silkie is a male, pekin is female.