sbutler12025
Chirping
- May 28, 2021
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Hey all! I just brought home two silkies and a bantam polish yesterday! I know silkies are hard to sex but I wondered if anyone could give me a couple tips?
I read that the roosters develope streamers in their head poof at a couple of months old. My two babies don't seem to have any.. it's all just fluffy and soft with no signs of any harder feathers and none stick out further than others. There is absolutely no sign of waddles on either and the comb on my brown one is completely flat, the buff has some small bumps on his/hers
I do have a white Silkie rooster who is a few weeks older (16-17 weeks) and he developed his comb and waddles pretty early on BUT he was a hatchery quality non bearded feed store silkie with very little head poof. He is missing a lot of your typical silkie features and It has even crossed my mind that he may be a mixed breed so I don't trust using him as reference. Do all silkie roosters have waddles and combs at this age? I am attaching photos. They were out in the rain when I picked them up so were still drying out when I took the photos making the head feathers stick together and look all different lengths and pointy, all of their head feathers are the same length now that they're dry and fluffy.
Also attaching photos of my polish bantam. He/she never stops moving so the photos are not so great. This one had swollen red eyes when I brought it home. They are better today but still somewhat swollen. It also had tiny pink waddles and some pink on its comb (which was also swollen, it is now much flatter) BUT today the waddles are less prominent and both the comb and waddles are completely yellow no sign of the pink I saw yesterday. Toes were also bright pink/reddish yesterday today those are a normal pale pinkish/whitish color. Thinking it may have had an allergy to the saw dust the lady was using? People in one of my Facebook groups said pullet, do you all think pullet?
I read that the roosters develope streamers in their head poof at a couple of months old. My two babies don't seem to have any.. it's all just fluffy and soft with no signs of any harder feathers and none stick out further than others. There is absolutely no sign of waddles on either and the comb on my brown one is completely flat, the buff has some small bumps on his/hers
I do have a white Silkie rooster who is a few weeks older (16-17 weeks) and he developed his comb and waddles pretty early on BUT he was a hatchery quality non bearded feed store silkie with very little head poof. He is missing a lot of your typical silkie features and It has even crossed my mind that he may be a mixed breed so I don't trust using him as reference. Do all silkie roosters have waddles and combs at this age? I am attaching photos. They were out in the rain when I picked them up so were still drying out when I took the photos making the head feathers stick together and look all different lengths and pointy, all of their head feathers are the same length now that they're dry and fluffy.
Also attaching photos of my polish bantam. He/she never stops moving so the photos are not so great. This one had swollen red eyes when I brought it home. They are better today but still somewhat swollen. It also had tiny pink waddles and some pink on its comb (which was also swollen, it is now much flatter) BUT today the waddles are less prominent and both the comb and waddles are completely yellow no sign of the pink I saw yesterday. Toes were also bright pink/reddish yesterday today those are a normal pale pinkish/whitish color. Thinking it may have had an allergy to the saw dust the lady was using? People in one of my Facebook groups said pullet, do you all think pullet?
I got them because my previous 'pullet' is definitely not a pullet lol and we're really hoping for a couple of sweet broody silkies. I was suspecting that the buff may be a Cockerel within the first ten minutes of having them home. Behavior and stance are screaming boy (especially after raising my other silkie roo) 
