silkie sexing

[ChickenLove6]

Anyone know what gender these two are?

 

[AVintageLife]

Here's a pic of CooCoo (I know not very original). CooCoo is just over 14 weeks old and we think he's a cockeral. No streamers or crowing yet but that mulberry comb has us wondering. His three partners in crime, we believe, are all pullets based on poof, comb, etc. Let me know what you think.

 

[kbh82310]

Here's a pic of CooCoo (I know not very original). CooCoo is just over 14 weeks old and we think he's a cockeral. No streamers or crowing yet but that mulberry comb has us wondering. His three partners in crime, we believe, are all pullets based on poof, comb, etc. Let me know what you think.

Def a Roo! Love his color tho!

 

[FowlJunkie]

Anyone know what gender these two are?

I'm still a silkie newbie but I'm guessing top is a cockerel and bottom is a pullet How'd I do silkie veterans? Gorgeous babies too.

 

[FowlJunkie]

Def a Roo! Love his color tho!

completely agree with Roo as he has the red already starting on his head and the color...wow... I love that color. What is it called?

 

[AVintageLife]

completely agree with Roo as he has the red already starting on his head and the color...wow... I love that color. What is it called?

Thanks, we love him too! He is a grey cuckoo. Lucked out that he has a mulberry comb and dark skin because I've read that sometimes the cuckoo pattern (which is produced by the barring gene without the fast feathering gene) leads to red combs and pale skin. Hopefully we are correct about the other three (one buff and two splash) and we'll have a lovely little tribe of silkies. My daughter wanted to add the silkies to our flock and I wasn't too excited about it at the time. But they are the most amazing creatures, so unique. I have become a huge fan.

 

[thehainline5]

Both hatched june 26th
Meet Flash (pullet?)

Meet Rosco (roo?)

 

[kbh82310]

Both hatched june 26th
Meet Flash (pullet?)

Meet Rosco (roo?)

They are to young to tell but any silkie I've seen that young with combs that big turned out to be Roos

 

[thehainline5]

Both of them?

 

[kbh82310]

They both have pretty big combs for 5 week olds. How old were they when you started noticing their combs?