silkie sexing - Page 27

Originally Posted by CALI CHICK 

Yes, I think I've heard that before too.  I guess I still call her a Blue Partridge because she hatched out of BBS eggs-LOL!

Did I explain that correctly about the red and penciling for LaynaDon's 2 partridge?  Would you agree that they are both pullets? 

Layna-You are so lucky to get girls............and you're allowed roosters!  I've re-homed over a dozen roosters this year!

Originally Posted by silkiemelon 

You have amazing colors! I've seen pics of your roo-steve, right? And he looks like he would make good babies
I have pretty basic colors.


Just black, white, and one partridge. Oh, and my buff roo. But I've been really hoping to expand that to colors like blue partridge and lavender

Originally Posted by aoxa 

Well thank you so much! Steve is the father of all of my silkies right now. Hopefully my sizzle George will step up and make some funny looking kids as well.
I bred buff to blue and got an array of colours. So breed your roo to them all and you should have lots of fun looking kids! Right now I am not breeding for anything specific. I believe Steve has partridge in his background for sure though.

My little man.
Your black hen is very nice! I love the cushion

Originally Posted by silkiemelon 

What the heck, I'll play along!

 

I've been on the fence with this guy (or girl) for a long time.

He's 5 1/2 months old.

 

All of his other friends have been crowing for a while now, so I suspected pullet, but then again it could be a dominance thing.

 

I see no prominent comb or wattles, but it kinda looks like he could have streamers coming in,

though his friends that are his age have already had their streamers for a while....so I don't know.

 

I can't really tell by crest, he's a hatchery chick so the crest is poorer quality and hard to judge by.

 

 

Sorry about all the pics, I just really want to know!

Originally Posted by shannybell 

We are new to chickens and bought some "silkies" (or so the man called them) at a local flea market.  He sold us a "pair" of black silkies and a "pair" of blue silkies.  Why we needed two roos, I don't know, but he thought we did...  He said that the black pair was 5 months old and the blue pair was 3 months old.  My questions are:

 

Are they really hens and roos in the pairs?  Are they really a black and a blue pair?  Do their ages seem close to correct?   

 

And an unrelated silkie question...the wing feathers on a couple of them look ratty all the time.  Why is that and is it normal?  Anything else you see about them that I need to know, please tell me!  I have a lot to learn.

 

Thanks for the input!   ~Shannon

 

 

The black pair

The blue pair...larger one in front (Pepper), smaller one in back (Salty).

Blue pair with the big black one

 

I have a few more pics if needed but don't want to bore you with them!  Thanks again for the info in advance  :)  

Originally Posted by TheChicknGarden 


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Originally Posted by dl9976 

I have 7 silkies altogether and the 3  below ave me stumped? They are 3 1/2 months old. I have one that is crowing so that is easy lol

 

Your help is VERY much APPRECIATED!

 

Chicken # 1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chicken #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

chicken #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Originally Posted by yammafarmer 

How about Fancy Nancy? Is she really a Fancy Ned? Her poof is wet here, so it may give a false streamer result. I think if she develops streamers it is supposed to happen at 4 months. She's super gentle. Not outgoing the way my RIR roo was, but super sweet. She's between 14-16 weeks. No comb, just flat. No wattles.

Originally Posted by LaynaDon95 

Here's silkie number 1. Whaddya think?

 

 

 

And silkie number 2. 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for any input you guys may have. I've been curious about these little ones for about 3 months now. =P I wanna know what I have!