Silkie sexing

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Beautiful! Sorry, my thread is glitching out on me & it wasn't showing my last reply. 🤦‍♀️ these are the 4 we allowed our welsummer (who we bought as an EE) to hatch out. She was our last chicken to lay & first to go broody. She hatched one of her own, a buff orpington egg, EE egg, & black astrolorp egg. EE roo for all.
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How old? (Hatch date) and if you can see the comb and see how big the comb is.

Silkies are notoriously hard to sex and it’s no joke when everyone says you will know when they crow or lay an egg 😁

If you don’t want to wait till they are 4 or 5 months old you can do a gender DNA test. I did this for 3 silkie chicks I had here, I wanted a Roo but all three were pullets - that never happens for it hahaha!
 
2 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets Winifred and Sarah, 23 weeks old


1 Golden Laced Polish pullet, Karen, 19 weeks


1 Black Copper Maran rooster, Hei Hei, 19 weeks old


1 Blue Silkie pullet, Niblet, 19 weeks old


1 Easter Egger rooster, Rob, 19 weeks old


1 Easter Egger pullet, Jelly Bean, 19 weeks old


1 Lavender Orpington Roo, Foghorn, 26 weeks old


1 Blue copper Maran pullet, Spunky, 26 weeks old


2 Black copper Maran pullet, Mother Clucker and Chungus, 26 weeks old
 

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