SILKIE EXPERTS: Boys Or Girls?!

[CocoNUT]

Hello all...I've now got 4 month old silkies...and although I know it's still TOO EARLY to be positive (100%), I would like to see if anyone can tell me if these guys are cockerels or pullets!

Muffin: partridge

I'm thinking these are 'streamers' but I COULD be wrong. What do you all think?


Lemon Drop



Lemonaid



Here's Licorice:



My Bluebelle: (I think those suspicious looking feathers towards the back of his head MIGHT be streamers...what do you all think?)



Spicy (I already know he's a he...he started crowing on Saturday!):
What is his coloring?




Let me know if you need any other photos. Hopefully these are good enough though.
Thanks!

 

[reesepoultry]

All the ones on top look like they are girls besides the ones you said are boys. I have to agree with you on the ones on the bottom that you think are boys.

 

[reesepoultry]

Bluebelle and up I believe to be all girls.
And below bluebelle I believe are all boys.
Some of the pics are hard to tell.

 

[CocoNUT]

So wait...you guys think Bluebelle might actually be a girl?!?!?!? OH PLEASE! (that would be WONDEFUL!!!)

 

[reesepoultry]

bluebelle looks like a girl to me.
the males will usually start get like a ball comb
on there head. Yours looks like a hen to me.
Don't qoute me on this But to me it looks like a girl.

 

[reesepoultry]

Wait I'm Sorry you have two pics of bluebelle on there. the second pics i can see his comb. I'm sorry bluebelle is a rooster and so is spicy. So you have two roosters. Sorry I got confused on the pics

 

[reesepoultry]

Muffin, Licorice, Lemonaide, & Lemon drop I am pretty positive are all hens.

 

[LA~Poulet]

Have you spent a lot of time observing them?

I had three silkies that were only 8 weeks old, but I felt 90% sure that two were cockerels b/c of their behavior-they would make the trilling warning noise, and run out of their coop strutting their stuff and get into stand-offs with each other... just exactly like my 10 wk. old Salmon Faverolle cockerels. The third one was much more calm & laid back, IDK if it is a pullet or not, but it behaved like my SF pullets.

 

[reesepoultry]

the hens will usually make a cooing sound to that roosters will not make.
Not sure if that helps

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Muffin, Lemon Drop, and Bluebelle look like roosters to me.