Sexing silkies

[John honcho]

They all will be 19 weeks this monday.

The buff today actually did its first iconic crow you hear in movies. The black one is a trip cuz it has the sweetest little high pitch clucking and sings all the time. The black one crowing is also speratic it crowed for the first time at 10pm two weeks ago and seems like maybe its going through ovary changes.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

The buff today actually did its first iconic crow you hear in movies. The black one is a trip cuz it has the sweetest little high pitch clucking and sings all the time. The black one crowing is also speratic it crowed for the first time at 10pm two weeks ago and seems like maybe its going through ovary changes.

Ovary changes?

 

[John honcho]

100% buff if boy, I would say white is girl, and with the way the black acts it could be a boy.

Im also curious cuz the black one stands up more than the buff and the buff is always at a horizontal position

 

[John honcho]

Ovary changes?

Yes i was thinking that maybe it was turning into a male cuz thats what i read online about hens crowing

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Yes i was thinking that maybe it was turning into a male cuz thats what i read online about hens crowing

It can't turn into a male. It is or it isn't.

 

[John honcho]

It can't turn into a male. It is or it isn't.

They can =)

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

It can't turn into a male. It is or it isn't.

It is technically possible, but I don't know how common it is. It has something to do with one of the ovaries shutting down, I believe.

 

[John honcho]

It is technically possible, but I don't know how common it is. It has something to do with one of the ovaries shutting down, I believe.

She is a weird one

 

[Willawong Hill]

I think here is an article about it:
https://www.livescience.com/13514-sex-change-chicken-gertie-hen-bertie-cockerel.html
A hen wouldn't actually become a rooster, because they couldn't father offspring, they'd just look like it. At that young and age i think you just have a regular cockerel crowing.