Stellasmomma

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Hello friends, I purchased 5 fertile silkie eggs for my broody silkie momma to hatch on April 8th all 5 hatched yay! so they are now 14 weeks old I thought I had 1 Roo who I am told is a Satin or just a silkie mix and likely male now I thought the rest were girls but to my surprise one of the little black ones starting crowing surprise!!!! so now I know for sure that one is indeed a boy looking closely he does have very prominent waddle which is hard to see because he and 2 others are completely black so unless your really looking you don't see them. Could someone please help me because now I am wondering if I actually only have 1 girl? I thought eggs might be a boy but does not have a waddle so maybe Eggs is a girl? and someone on the board here told me they thought Albert was a boy but now I am not sure and looking at Lola compared to five I am thinking Lola might be Larry? only have one other silkie which is my Momma which is why I wanted to hatch some more, so I am not well versed in how to really be sure with these little cuties! I am attaching photos with names if someone could help I would be so thankful because if they are boys I have some questions!
 

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Hello friends, I purchased 5 fertile silkie eggs for my broody silkie momma to hatch on April 8th all 5 hatched yay! so they are now 14 weeks old I thought I had 1 Roo who I am told is a Satin or just a silkie mix and likely male now I thought the rest were girls but to my surprise one of the little black ones starting crowing surprise!!!! so now I know for sure that one is indeed a boy looking closely he does have very prominent waddle which is hard to see because he and 2 others are completely black so unless your really looking you don't see them. Could someone please help me because now I am wondering if I actually only have 1 girl? I thought eggs might be a boy but does not have a waddle so maybe Eggs is a girl? and someone on the board here told me they thought Albert was a boy but now I am not sure and looking at Lola compared to five I am thinking Lola might be Larry? only have one other silkie which is my Momma which is why I wanted to hatch some more, so I am not well versed in how to really be sure with these little cuties! I am attaching photos with names if someone could help I would be so thankful because if they are boys I have some questions!
Eggs is bearded, and therefore, has little to no wattles. I'm thinking your only girl is the one in picture 5, but I would love to see some side profile and fully body pics of Eggs. Albert is definitely a boy and the one that started crowing is likely one as well.
 

Stellasmomma

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Eggs is bearded, and therefore, has little to no wattles. I'm thinking your only girl is the one in picture 5, but I would love to see some side profile and fully body pics of Eggs. Albert is definitely a boy and the one that started crowing is likely one as well.
That's what I was thinking thanks! I will try and get a profile pic of eggs
 

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Eggs is bearded, and therefore, has little to no wattles. I'm thinking your only girl is the one in picture 5, but I would love to see some side profile and fully body pics of Eggs. Albert is definitely a boy and the one that started crowing is likely one as well.
Here are some other pics of Eggs hopefully they might help
 

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Stellasmomma

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Great pics! I'm on the fence, but leaning toward cockerel. Silkies are pretty hard to sex...gonna have to tag @LadiesAndJane for this one.
Thanks! They are really hard but so far we know that Albert is confirmed that Lola is Larry Lol and my other one that's crowing is a Cockerel and Five is a girl now we just have to figure little eggs out! poor little five is outnumbered! I appreciate your help
 

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