Silkie 12 weeks- Hen or Roo?

[TinaLynn89]

Hello, so we have a 12 week old silkie and got her( hopefully a her) at 2 days old. i know it is really hard to sex silkies but would like to see what people think. we are hoping its a she but not sure. Let me know what everyone thinks =D

Thank you

 

[pozees2]

I have to stay on the fence on this one. Kind of looks like a pullet but I see a few feathers in the crest that might be streamers, which would mean cockerel.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

I lean towards cockerel because of how the tail feathers point down. My one silkie hen that I had had upward pointing tail feathers and all of my silkie cockerels started with their tail feathers curling downward.

This is the pullet

This is one of the cockerels
(Both are roughly the same age around 4 months)

 

[llandry]

Oncoming storm- that's interesting and helpful since I've got 6 silkies I'm waiting to see if they're boys or girls. I've never had silkies before so I don't know much about them. I never would have guessed that tails up tend to be girls and tails down tend to be boys. I would have said the opposite. Good to know!

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Oncoming storm- that's interesting and helpful since I've got 6 silkies I'm waiting to see if they're boys or girls. I've never had silkies before so I don't know much about them. I never would have guessed that tails up tend to be girls and tails down tend to be boys. I would have said the opposite. Good to know!

And see sometimes it depends on the rooster because another cockerel in the group with the black one had a very obvious upright rooster tail while the other two had downward tails. Silkies are nuts if we’re honest.

 

[Matilda Belle]

Hello, so we have a 12 week old silkie and got her( hopefully a her) at 2 days old. i know it is really hard to sex silkies but would like to see what people think. we are hoping its a she but not sure. Let me know what everyone thinks =D

Thank you

It looks like a pullet but it's too soon to know for sure.

 

[TinaLynn89]

So the silkie is 14 weeks now..still not sure but were hoping She is a "She". Let me know what everyone thinks .

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I'm fairly confident it's a cockerel. Darker feathers on shoulders plus streamers....

 

[TinaLynn89]

I was reading around alittle about that and seems like all the signs are showing Cockerel =-(

 

[Matilda Belle]

I’m sure on the fence with this one. I just don’t know. It looks boyish now.