Silkie gender help needed

[MrFluffyandGirls]

Have made any crowing attempts? They should have started by now or late blooming. Fourish months typically they start to try. From the stance the hens usually look more squated , carry themselves lower to the ground, have a pom pom tail. The male's tend to stand tall allot of the time and you'll start to see little streamers of feathers on his backs side instead of the pom pom cotton ball look.

 

[AfroditaVita]

Have made any crowing attempts? They should have started by now or late blooming. Fourish months typically they start to try. From the stance the hens usually look more squated , carry themselves lower to the ground, have a pom pom tail. The male's tend to stand tall allot of the time and you'll start to see little streamers of feathers on his backs side instead of the pom pom cotton ball look.

The one with the biggest crown has started crowing, the other three do not even attempt to. The other brown one and the white one are lower to the ground. All of them have streamers on there tails.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

They all look like cockerels. There's a slim chance that the black is a pullet

 

[AfroditaVita]

They all look like cockerels. There's a slim chance that the black is a pullet

May I ask, what makes you think the white one is a male?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

May I ask, what makes you think the white one is a male?

The comb is extremely wide

Pippin's easy guide to silkie sexing

Hello there! When I hatched my own silkies, I studied and studied about how to sex them. I read that it was almost impossible to sex them, and that you had to wait for a crow or an egg. Raising and watching them helped me pick out certain traits that only belong to roosters or hens. These...

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