silkie sexing

[hdowden]

how old?

 

[NSWSNYDER]

Oh sorry! eight weeks old

 

[hdowden]

8 weeks is young to sex but right now it looks like its a pullet but that could change in the next few weeks

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Can I play too? All of these Silkies are between 10 and 12 weeks old.
Tina, my favorite. Has a very round crest and no comb.

Lola. Also has a nice round crest, though its still coming in. No comb either.

Ellie Mae. Same crest and comb situation.

Wednesday. Crest is smaller, but still rounded. No comb.

For comparison, here is one of my known cockerels (I have 3 I'm pretty positive on). Edgar is a blue cuckoo. I'll also post a group shot as well.

One of the other boys is laying down in front on the right. The other guy is poking his head around from the back left. So, what do you guys think? Thanks so much for your help!

 

[silkiemelon]

Can I play too? All of these Silkies are between 10 and 12 weeks old.
Tina, my favorite. Has a very round crest and no comb.

Lola. Also has a nice round crest, though its still coming in. No comb either.

Ellie Mae. Same crest and comb situation.

Wednesday. Crest is smaller, but still rounded. No comb.

For comparison, here is one of my known cockerels (I have 3 I'm pretty positive on). Edgar is a blue cuckoo. I'll also post a group shot as well.

One of the other boys is laying down in front on the right. The other guy is poking his head around from the back left. So, what do you guys think? Thanks so much for your help!

They all look like pullets (besides edgar, of course)

The first 2 I'm 100% sure are both pullets. The last 2 I'm pretty sure are pullets.

Tina is gorgeous, by the way.

 

[hdowden]

is this a partridge?? its soooo pretty...i think you are correct in all those pics i see just the one cockerel so far

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

is this a partridge?? its soooo pretty...i think you are correct in all those pics i see just the one cockerel so far

Tina and Lola are both porcelains. This picture is from about a week ago, so she's filled out even more since then! Thanks for the compliments and guesses everyone, I hope we're right and I have 4 pullets!!! I've got 10 more 4 week old chicks, I'll take some pics of them in a few weeks and post them up as well so we can all try again Then I've got eggs in the bator that'll need sexing at some point too. Thanks again!

 

[NSWSNYDER]

Thank you!!!

 

[NSWSNYDER]

Please help! I'm new to silkies and can't tell if this is a pullet or roo...

anyone else have an opinion?

 

[lizanne]

I'll post these just as a reference. All the Silkies that I bought at three days old turned out to be roosters, and I had to find them a new home. All of them started crowing at about 15 weeks.



Peach- at about 5 weeks



Peach at 15 Weeks




I also noticed that they did a lot of chest bumping and play fighting (more then the others) even from a very young age.