Silkie cross polish

[shajadaz]

Got these two to pop under broody hen, hatched 12dec so will be 6 weeks this week, one is definitely bigger is this necessarily a rooster? And they seem to have different tails?

 

[nuthatched]

Tails and size have little to do with gender at this age, but the one with orange on the wings might be a cockerel. Both polishes and silkies are notoriously hard to sex, and a mix? It might take a few more weeks to know. on males, the neck (hackles) and feathers that are on each side of the base of the tail are long, pointy and wispy, they usually come in about 13 weeks.

 

[Painted Calls]

Tails and size have little to do with gender at this age, but the one with orange on the wings might be a cockerel. Both polishes and silkies are notoriously hard to sex, and a mix? It might take a few more weeks to know. on males, the neck (hackles) and feathers that are on each side of the base of the tail are long, pointy and wispy, they usually come in about 13 weeks.

Very well said. Agreed.