silkie sexing

[juliasa]

can anyone help out with the gender for my silkies?

 

[shortgrass]

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.

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

Yep, cockerel... Notice the thicker feathers in the tail, too... They're the same type if feathers as the "streamers" on his head.. And he stands very tall, poking his head up really high; that's a cockerel thing

 

[shortgrass]

can anyone help out with the gender for my silkies?

Did you post pictures somewhere in here? Lol this thread van get really confusing, and I probably skipped right over the pics if you did... Can you repost them?

 

[shortgrass]

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.

That's why it's so hard to sex them with pictures! Lol they do have personality differences, the way the stand, walk, talk etc After a couple of roos they kinda stick out by their behaviors... That's hard to sort out from a snapshot

 

[Tibs]

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2 months old Roo or Pullets? Tks

 

[Naliez]

So, these are my first Silkies and I'm afraid I have a lot of roosters. First is Slimy Bob. His beak is HUGE! Lol

Next is Pretty Boy. (Slimy and Pretty bicker a lot)

P-Dawg

Nugget

And Booger

 

[bit o poultry19]

Any idea on mine I think that the white and the gray are roosters and the two black are hens. They have not started crowing or laying yet

Squishy(positive he's a rooster)

Sir pecks a lot(sure he's a rooster)

Shorty(I think hen)

And tiny(I think hen)

 

[Tibs]

Any idea on mine I think that the white and the gray are roosters and the two black are hens. They have not started crowing or laying yet

Squishy(positive he's a rooster)

Sir pecks a lot(sure he's a rooster)

Shorty(I think hen)

And tiny(I think hen)

 

[Tibs]

How old are these? @bit o poultry 19

 

[bit o poultry19]

How old are these? @bit o poultry 19

They are about 7-8 months old @Tibs