silkie sexing

[markjak]

Will take some more thanks

 

[markjak]

Will take some more thanks

 

[markjak]

 

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[islafarm]

mmmm, silkie sexing is almost hilarious! There are many more experienced than me, but I'm hazarding a guess - mainly because I have 2 white 6 week silkies and am going back and forth on gender daily

1 pullet - stance, don't know about that pouf though?
2 cockerel - pouf flows backwards, stance, wide comb
3 cockerel - pouf flows backward and looks like there's streamers
4 pullet: comb size and stance
5 no idea - looks like a wide comb and is slow to feather out, so maybe cockerel??

looking forward to seeing what others say, and what you discover you actually have, and

!!

 

[blkjak]

mmmm, silkie sexing is almost hilarious! There are many more experienced than me, but I'm hazarding a guess - mainly because I have 2 white 6 week silkies and am going back and forth on gender daily 

1 pullet - stance, don't know about that pouf though?
2 cockerel - pouf flows backwards, stance, wide comb
3 cockerel - pouf flows backward and looks like there's streamers
4 pullet: comb size and stance
5 no idea - looks like a wide comb and is slow to feather out, so maybe cockerel??

looking forward to seeing what others say, and what you discover you actually have, and   !!

I think you are correct but I think that #5 is a pullet.

 

[shortgrass]

mmmm, silkie sexing is almost hilarious! There are many more experienced than me, but I'm hazarding a guess - mainly because I have 2 white 6 week silkies and am going back and forth on gender daily 

1 pullet - stance, don't know about that pouf though?
2 cockerel - pouf flows backwards, stance, wide comb
3 cockerel - pouf flows backward and looks like there's streamers
4 pullet: comb size and stance
5 no idea - looks like a wide comb and is slow to feather out, so maybe cockerel??

looking forward to seeing what others say, and what you discover you actually have, and   !!

Lol I agree! It's like a mystery game ha-ha...

I also agree on the 5 chicks...number 5 made me chuckle...could it BE any harder to sex a silkie with NO feathers in its head? I would go with the assumption of slow feathering=male, but what little feathers it DOES have, they are not cockerel feathers...yet

I'm waffling on number 5 lol

 

[LadyCluck77]

All have nice leg feathering, standing by my guesses with 2 and 3. I agree about 5. Could go either way, maybe he or she should be named after a certain Rock musician from the 80s.

 

[Sienatiger]

This is a 4 month old splash silkie. I tried feather sexing him when he was a chick and it seemed as though he were male. He is a lot smaller than my 2 other silkies from the same batch. Thanks for any help!