Silkie sexing

[krystin07]

View attachment 3649853 Black is my EE roo and grey is my EE hen

Oh my! I was hoping my astrolorp/EE hen would keep her coloring! She looks exactly like yours!

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Oh my! I was hoping my astrolorp/EE hen would keep her coloring! She looks exactly like yours!

I’m getting more hens and building a separate bantam coop but this is my flock

 

[krystin07]

View attachment 3649853 Black is my EE roo and grey is my EE hen

So my astrolorp/ee hen is likely to keep her beautiful colors?! She looks just like yours! I was hoping she wasn't going to darken up!

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

It won’t let me send the picture of my polish

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

So my astrolorp/ee hen is likely to keep her beautiful colors?! She looks just like yours! I was hoping she wasn't going to darken up! View attachment 3649899View attachment 3649900

It should

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

 

[krystin07]

I’m getting more hens and building a separate bantam coop but this is my flockView attachment 3649886View attachment 3649887View attachment 3649889View attachment 3649895

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.

 

[Ponypoor]

I feel like this is a roo. I was hoping for a female but my gut says it's notView attachment 3649811View attachment 3649812View attachment 3649813View attachment 3649814View attachment 3649815View attachment 3649816View attachment 3649817View attachment 3649818View attachment 3649821View attachment 3649823View attachment 3649825

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!

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

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. View attachment 3649905View attachment 3649909View attachment 3649912

This is a list of my flock

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

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