Sexing your Silkies (PICTURES AND TIPS - Updated July-5-12)

[Aina]

I am just praying they both are hens! Can't keep a rooster where I live...
I took lots of pictures and beside the color their face looks exactly the same. The black is much bigger from day one.
So I start with the white one

 

[Aina]

 

[Aina]

Now the black one

 

[Aina]

They both have that blue patch on their cheek, the black one get bigger right away and appears more fierce ... They both have the same dad a white silkie but there are black and white hens in the coop where I get the eggs...
I just hope they both are girls if not I need to find a great home for them. I live on Oahu, Hawaii and it will be hard to find a place for them...
Thank you for your help!
Aloha

 

[Leecie]

Does anyone have juvenile silkie girls for sale in the San Francisco bay area? I already have 2 roos and can't have any more.looking to refresh my stock my oldest girl is almost 8 years old and I'm losing my girls one by one to old age. I love my silkies and must have more. I. Cant risk hatching. anymore. My neighbor behind me will have my head if I get one mord boy!

 

[Aina]

Bryam are you sure they are hens both?
I am surprised nobody else commented. I thought these pictures were good enough to tell...
Thank you

 

[Pyxis]

Now the black one

This one is definitely a cockerel. See the streamers coming off the back of the crest?

 

[Aina]

Thank you
Yes I do see them :-(
Makes me really sad because I really want to find him a good home...

 

[Aleee44]

I thought I had posted on here but I guess i didn't.
This is my Ling Ling, he/she is about 10 weeks and 4 days.
Do you guys have an idea if he's a she or a he?

 

[cbookout]

Can anyone help me with the sex of these two silkies? Also posted a pic of my "white" one with what looks like Buff feathers emerging. Any thoughts?
These were supposedly hatched 4/17/15, which would make these 4 months on 8/17/15. When I got them they were the same size, hatched together and raised together. However the white one has grown to about 2x the size of the black one in just 1 month. It also has a longer tail.