silkie sexing

[shortgrass]

can you get some better pictures? side profile of the head would be really nice.

Yes!

This is Pompom

Left: kiko. Right: pompom

Yep, kiko is a pullet and pompom looks like a cockerel

 

[shortgrass]

10 week old silkie splash

Lookin cockerel...

 

[shortgrass]

Chickie 1 (3 months old): Chickie 2 (3 months old):

2 cockerels...

 

[shortgrass]

Hi, my barba d'uccle kindley hatched me 2 beautiful silkie chicks, currently 9.5 weeks old. I've been trying to guess the sex myself but wanted to see what others thought. The white bearded silkie I have guessed at a pullet and was 99% sure until I started reading this thread! She has no wattles, small comb and walks low. I can't see any streamers but that might be my untrained eye! The splash unbearded silkie looks identical to her red mum in head type which I think is a bit rooish despite being a pullet (is that a word? !) Same size as other chick (though completely different parents), also walks low, slightly bigger wattles and comb and possibly no obvious streamers? Help?

Splash is a cockerel; solid white one is a pullet

 

[shortgrass]

I think I've been fooled. I thought this one was a pullet. It's in the pullet pen, but yesterday I was looking at my 3 month olds and I noticed streamers, so I'm pretty sure it's a boy.

Either a cockerel, or one proud upright roo-ish looking pullet

 

[shortgrass]

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Here are pictures of four silkies. They are roughly 15 weeks old. I need to know the sex of all four of them. The pictures of the black silkies didn't turn out as clear as I would have liked and was interrupted by a copperhead appearing in the coop. Needless to say photo session ended abruptly. I know that the silkie on the bucket is a rooster. He is the same age as the other two black ones. I think one is a pullet and the other appears to act more like a pullet but had bigger wattles than the one I think is a pullet but then not near as big as the one I KNOW is a rooster. Ideas? [/quoþte] The two black ones on the barn floor are pullets, the white one and the black one on the bucket are roosters. I would sell the white one and then you will be left with a nice breeding ttio of black silkies.

X2 2 black pullets, one black cockerel on a bucket, and the white one is a cockerel.

 

[Talithahorse]

Thanks. I keep looking at the pictures and the answers and can't quite figure out the silkies (most of the other breeds I do pretty well). I seem to do better using the behavior than the looks. Thanks everyone. I can now rearrange my pens.

 

[evitachu]

Yep, kiko is a pullet and pompom looks like a cockerel

Thank you thank you...so I have hope...*cross fingers for kiko to be a pullet*....

 

[FarmGyrl]

I feel like my baby is a boy. Any thoughts? I can't have roosters so I want to make sure it's a rooster before I send it to its new home. Thanks in advance.

 

[chickendreams24]

I'm saying cockeral because of what appears to be streamers but get some other answers too.