Silkie Roo? Please offer advice, suggestions and tips!

[Tamrync]

Hi,


I could use a little help!!

These guys are impossible for me to sex. The buff, roo? The blue hen?

They are 14 weeks, no facial features yet. The buff I noticed a few "sticky looking" tail feathers and it is very round, the blue not
so many "sticky" feathers and seems a little less rounded.

Thank you for all your advice!!





(Sticky stringy looking feathers)

 

[Pele]

Your buff is definitely a roo

 

[Tamrync]

I thought so. Since the blue looks different, you think maybe a hen?
I have one paint, buff and black roo already!! Oh well, guess I'm going to need more silkies.

 

[hdowden]

the buff looks like a cockerel but side shots of their heads would also help

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Rooster

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Here is a link that may help you for the future!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/609085/sexing-your-silkies-pictures-and-tips-updated-july-5-12
See ya!

 

[Tamrync]

Thank you!!

 

[krackowpolish]

a good pic of the face would be nice. the blu one is a hen, the buff one is probably a roo.

 

[Tamrync]

I will take some facial pictures in the morning. Thank you!

 

[Tamrync]

Well, I heard the partridge silkie roo and now all of a sudden he has some facial features. I am pretty positive I have a black roo too. The other one I have in question is my paint silkie. Hatched on the same day, has a rounded tail no facial features but some streamers (not nearly as many as the partridge and black but a little more than the blue hen). I have someone who would like to purchase him, jokingly she said she wouldn't tell me if it was a hen but I would like to keep her if it's a her. Any suggestions?













Lastly this is my blue hen.