Dropbear
In the Brooder
- Jun 25, 2020
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Hi all, i have been following articles here for a while now. My fiancé and I picked up six backyard chickens a few months ago and they are growing so fast into beautiful birds now. She bought them as chicks and wasn’t sure about two of them we picked up as they were bantams. So along with the two leghorns and the two spotted sussex, we discovered after some research that one bantam is a silver Sebright and the Other is a silkie. They are four months old now, and something curious has begun with the silkie.
Although this silkie more resembles the pics we have seen of hens, “she” has begun to crow in the morning before they are let out of their coop for the day, like a rooster. I have attached a pic Of “her”. Can anyone with more experience tell if that looks like a rooster? There are no head streamers, the tail is rounded instead of pointed, and that protrusion on top of “her” head maybe be a comb, but it has been like that forever and doesn’t look to me like a silkie roo comb from the pics I have seen of them?
Call me curious and confused, it’s so much easier to tell with the rest that they are hens. Is there anything else I should be looking for to tell?
Although this silkie more resembles the pics we have seen of hens, “she” has begun to crow in the morning before they are let out of their coop for the day, like a rooster. I have attached a pic Of “her”. Can anyone with more experience tell if that looks like a rooster? There are no head streamers, the tail is rounded instead of pointed, and that protrusion on top of “her” head maybe be a comb, but it has been like that forever and doesn’t look to me like a silkie roo comb from the pics I have seen of them?
Call me curious and confused, it’s so much easier to tell with the rest that they are hens. Is there anything else I should be looking for to tell?
A profile shot would be better for gender ID, but I lean cockerel on that bird.
