Silkie mix chick with silkie type wings?

[AnneGirlGG]

He really is! He's very, ahh, nonconsensual when it comes to mating, and will even try to mate with 5 weeks old chicks. Also the Am boy fights with him and always wins and injures him. The hens despise him. I can't get myself to eat/rehome him so that's why he lives alone in a lil coop.

Haha oh no! Well he looks happy enough!

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Thank you! I would love that.

Here is Pip today. I'm still not 100% on gender. But the wing feathers, to me, look different than the rest of her feathers. Pippin is 13 weeks old. She also doesn't have a typical silkie walnut crest (I don't think).

 

[Debbie292d]

Here is Pip today. I'm still not 100% on gender. But the wing feathers, to me, look different than the rest of her feathers. Pippin is 13 weeks old. She also doesn't have a typical silkie walnut crest (I don't think).

My guess is male, as they typically develop some standard-type feathers on their wings and some in their tails, and the crest looks more like a male's, too. It's also getting hackle feathers (back of the neck) that females don't get.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

My guess is male, as they typically develop some standard-type feathers on their wings and some in their tails, and the crest looks more like a male's, too. It's also getting hackle feathers (back of the neck) that females don't get.

I hope you're right, lol. Not because I necessarily want another male, I just want so badly to know what the poor baby is so I can stop calling it, "it."

I did also notice that in the right light, those standard looking feathers are an iridescent green, which made me think male. I'm not sure why, since I think females can look that way too. He's got some in his tail too.