Too young??? -UPDATE now 6 weeks-!!!!!!!!pg.2,&3 questions

[speckledhen]

Uh, well, guess we were right...BOY!

 

[playswithfowl]

Would anyone like to have a young rooster? I don't think that I would be willing to give it away until its foster mum thinks that it can make it on its own when it gets a little bit older shouldn't be to much longer :|

 

[playswithfowl]

Hi,
I appreciate the responses, but I was wondering how everyone can tell that its a boy? For, some people it seems completely obvious, NOT for ME!!!

 

[skatcatla]

Aj, I was just about to ask that too. How did you all know it was a boy??

 

[rosyposyosy]

comb and wattles devolop fairly early with roosters. This is just an example.

this is a pic of my 13 week old's comb:

this is her at almost 4 weeks:

Do you see how she has almost no wattles, and a small, yellow comb? Your cockerel already has wattles and a pinkish comb. Even at 3 weeks!

 

[silkiechicken]

Yeah, boy, comb development is the tip off. It is pinkish and huge at 6 weeks to be a girl.

 

[rosyposyosy]

I really don't mean to spring this on you, but is that silkie a cockerel too?

 

[playswithfowl]

NO... not unless cockerels lay eggs LOL I've collected eggs from her, I'm possitive that she's a hen.

 

[Kanchii]

At 6 weeks old?

 

[Dawn419]

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Your Silky looks like a girl to me also as her comb and wattles are smallish. How old is she?

Our Silkies turned 23 weeks old on Monday and out of 5, we know that 2 are boys because they're crowing/have major combs/wattles and they are bigger bodied than the girls, 2 are girls because of the eggs they're laying but we still have one that hasn't crowed or laid us an egg yet. I suspect it's a she just because she's smaller than the boys, yet her comb and wattles are bigger than the other 2 girls, but not as big and pronounced as the boys'. Gotta love Silkies...

Dawn