silkie experts.....get your glasses on please!!!

[lurky]

Here are a few body shots too. can you see how fluffy the tail in the last one is?
Thats why i worry that they are all roo's. I have not seen any other girls with tails like that.
(that sounds so funny)

 

[Sharisr32]

I can give ya an easier way - Spurs roos have spur bumps

sexing silkies really isn't hard at all -- the spur bump is a dead give away

 

[lurky]

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I felt for a bump on one and felt nothing. I might have missed it. I thought the girls had them too....just dont grow big. Would it show at 4 months? my non-silkie roo's did not get bumps any bigger than the girls til they were way older.

 

[CarriBrown]

They look like girls to me. My girls didn't have any type of comb until they were laying at 8 months.

 

[lurky]

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but what about the little (new growth) streamers on the heads of a few? Do girls get those? Also the stance in the last few....can girls have that posture? And i mean the splash in those last few.

 

[hinkjc]

I think the 3rd one (in the original pics) is a boy because the streamers are pretty long. The others look like girls. The last one, I'm not sure..looks like streamers starting, but they're not as long as #3.

Jody

 

[silkiechicken]

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Hmmm... my silkie girl has spur bumps... just no spurs like her roo... maybe that's why she's throwing all boys from her eggs!!!

 

[BamaChicken]

That Splash in the last pic standing in front looks like a cockeral from the stance. I would just about say you can count on that one being a male. Very nice looking too Is that the same bird in the picture right above the last one? That looks like a definite cockeral. I have had cockeral that didn't get combs or wattles till nearly a year but they get taller than the pullets and don't take those squatty stances like the girls.

 

[lurky]

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I am not sure but they look like they might not be the same in those 2 pics. My 3 splash are hard to tell apart. One is lighter than the other 2. I think 2 are cockeral and maybe the 3rd too. The 3rd has a tail fluffier than the blue, but not as fluffy as the 2 suspected roo's. I really wanted at least one of the splash to be a girl. Thank you for your post. I expect to start seeing some roo traits soon. I wonder if a splash roo mates a white pullet....could i see splash chicks?

 

[BamaChicken]

I would mate to blue or black. To the black you will get blue. with the blue you will get blue and splash.