Tips on sexing silkies!

[Chic omega sorority]

Ok so I must be dumb in this area! I would love to keep my silkie rooster, however, and here shows my stupidity, won’t all the eggs be fertilized? I only have 1 egg so far, but check every morning and evening so that is not a problem! I don’t want to crack open an egg and find the beginnings of a baby chick, or worse give eggs to friends and have them find the beginnings!

 

[Cloverr39]

Ok so I must be dumb in this area! I would love to keep my silkie rooster, however, and here shows my stupidity, won’t all the eggs be fertilized? I only have 1 egg so far, but check every morning and evening so that is not a problem! I don’t want to crack open an egg and find the beginnings of a baby chick, or worse give eggs to friends and have them find the beginnings!

Yes, if you have a rooster your hens eggs will be fertilized. But it takes about 2-3 days of a hen constantly sitting on an egg for it to start developing. Usually though, hens just lay the egg and leave. And if you have any broody hens (hens sitting in the same spot all day every day and growling when approached) just collect any eggs from under them daily and you'll have no issues!
Most my hens are silkies and they love to go broody, trust me. If I don't want chicks, I just take their eggs away every day. It's quite simple.

 

[Chic omega sorority]

You have helped me so much, than

Yes, if you have a rooster your hens eggs will be fertilized. But it takes about 2-3 days of a hen constantly sitting on an egg for it to start developing. Usually though, hens just lay the egg and leave. And if you have any broody hens (hens sitting in the same spot all day every day and growling when approached) just collect any eggs from under them daily and you'll have no issues!
Most my hens are silkies and they love to go broody, trust me. If I don't want chicks, I just take their eggs away every day. It's quite simple.

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[Chic omega sorority]

You have helped me so much, as I said I’m new to this and want to keep my silkie! I’ll just keep collecting eggs! Guess it’s time for Marge to change her name to Marc. I did find 2 more eggs this afternoon, I only have 9 hens so not too hard to keep track! Thank for the answers. Great forum!

 

[MarnieRose]

It’s probably way to early but I have a 4 week old white silkie named Pip any ideas on if Pip is a roo or hen? It almost looks like she has little wattles which makes me a little nervous, any help is appreciated!!

 

[Lrajos4]

Hi I have a showgirl 7 weeks old that I would love to know if it's a girl...I say it is but what do u think?

 

[Debbie292d]

Sure is cute!

Do you know what she's crossed with? Normally, with pure silkies it's more like 3-4 months but this one you might be able to find out sooner. I guess I'd lean pullet too.

 

[AfterTheFallFarm]

Guesses on any of these three! I don’t know exact ages, I know the youngest is the dark partridge(?), then black, and oldest is white splash. White splash is who I most suspect is a roo but I don’t know if i see streamers or if they are just funny feathers due to castings still being on some of his/her head feathers. The smallest one had the smallest comb out of the group we chose from. He/she had a hatchmate with a noticeably more bulbous comb which is why we chose the chick that we did. I know that doesn’t mean our chick is a pullet based off that alone though.