What gender are my silkies?

[Liberty-Chicken]

Hey! I bought four chicks from Kahoots about 4 months ago (16 weeks.) I got two Silkies, an Easter Egger, and a Lavender Orpington. I can tell that the Lavender Orpington is a rooster, he has red comb, pointy saddle feathers and he started crowing. The Easter Egger is also pretty clearly a hen. I'm really confused about the silkies though, I don't know if I have to wait longer but I really can't tell what gender they are. This is my first time raising silkies so I don't know very much about them. When I bought them they were advertised as bantams, but they are almost as big as the Lavender Orpinton cockerel. We also have a Silver Pheonix bantam and she is smaller than the silkies even though she is already 2 years old. Could my silkies be standard size? On the last photo that is the Silver Pheonix on the right.

 

[Jener8or]

I'm not sure about their size, you might look at the standard weights for bantam Silkies and see if they fall within that range. (According to a quick search, the American SOP weight for a fully grown bantam Silkie rooster is 36 ounces, and a hen is 32 ounces.)

I don't see any large combs or wattles from here, but I think Silkies are notoriously hard to sex until they are fairly mature. Close up pictures of the comb and wattles and possibly a closer up side view of the feathers would help.

 

[Liberty-Chicken]

Here are some closer up pictures of the first silkie

 

[Liberty-Chicken]

Here are some closer-up pictures of both

 

[Slothinc]

Here are some closer up pictures of the first silkie

This one is a girl the other probably is too but I am not 100% positive because the picture is a little hard to tell.

 

[Liberty-Chicken]

I hope so. I'm really hoping to have hens because I wanted to bread them to my friend's silkie rooster

 

[Liberty-Chicken]

Well, I'm hoping to have at least one hen so I can breed it

 

[Jener8or]

I'm still leaning towards them being female. Hopefully some of our Silkie sexing experts stop by to confirm or deny. Good luck with your breeding plans!

 

[Slothinc]

Well, I'm hoping to have at least one hen so I can breed it

Just saw the updated pics. To me they both look like girls. I would only suspect male at this age if they started to act more like a male. Do either of them walk around with very upright posture?

 

[Liberty-Chicken]

They only stand up straight if they are very attentive, and I thought they had a little bit of deeper voices but I don't think the voice matters... at least that what I've heard people say. If I spook them by accident they usually stand up real straight and look around but my Easter Egger does that too.