Silkie thread!

[TiaRC]

I do think this one is a boy with the beetle green in tail and wings. Here's some pics of him this morning try as I might I can't get the green to show in the photo.

Here is another black on I have that I am pretty sure is a girl and I do see beetle green high lights on her tail and wigs to, not as much as the other one. Again hard to see in the pic.

Top one is deffinately roo. Last one the body is saying pullet!

 

[Suzierd]

Top one is deffinately roo. Last one the body is saying pullet!

Yes! But the Pullet does have some green! Which I'm very happy about because that beetle green is so COOL!

 

[Suzierd]

Just sharing little Alice

 

[The Hustons]

Just sharing little Alice

Awww I Iove alice!!! The white always steal my heart !!

 

[kabhyper1]

Hey guys, I was wondering how you all house your birds. My girls are looking pretty scraggly being in with the boys, so I am planning on putting them in separate pens. A hen house and a bachelor coop. Then when I want to breed them put the roo I need with the girls I want bred and then back to the bachelor coop. I have some grow outs that I know are boys and a bunch that I have no idea what sex they are. So I will put the known boys with the roos and cockerels, and the rest of the grow outs with the girls. We are building two in barn coops for the winter for the silkies due to our winter forecast being worse than last year. In the spring I plan on getting a bigger shed and doing better separation. Anyway I would appreciate some thoughts on this. Right now they are all together in one coop. I have 3 Cockerels that are almost a year, 6 hens and 12 babies ranging in age from 2 to 4 months old. It seems when you start breeding them more and more, they get harder and harder to sex. I have boys that look justl ike girls HA! So confusing when it comes to planning housing. Oh yeah, also, when you have a bachelor coop and want to add more boys, young ones, is that difficult?

 

[lightchick]

My partridge Silkie has beetle green on her feathers and I'm 99.99% sure that she's a pullet.
She has almost no comb at all and she doesn't have any streamers either. She's going to be 20 weeks old tomorrow.

 

[Suzierd]

My partridge Silkie has beetle green on her feathers and I'm 99.99% sure that she's a pullet.
She has almost no comb at all and she doesn't have any streamers either.   She's going to be 20 weeks old tomorrow.

Good to know! Thank you.

 

[TiaRC]

Yes! But the Pullet does have some green! Which I'm very happy about because that beetle green is so COOL!

I have pullets with some beetle green. It usually give me a good indicator that it is a pure black and not a smutty black. Black males usually have it everywhere. Where as females have tips of their wings and sometimes tail.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My black females also show the green sheen. Its just something that comes with black, in lots of breeds.

 

[Suzierd]

I have pullets with some beetle green. It usually give me a good indicator that it is a pure black and not a smutty black. Black males usually have it everywhere. Where as females have tips of their wings and sometimes tail.

Well maybe there's hope that one we think is a boy is really a girl. One can always hope. It's do hard to catch the green in a photo wish I could.