Too me it looks like you have a pair male and female. Looks like you have a gabby. The first chicks poof is slicking back into streamers it looks like.
Yes chip off the egg without pealing the membrane so the top half and bitten half of the shell are no longer connected. Start there. If the membrane is dry wet it with a qtip
You have two dominant personality silkies. Ether male on male, female on male, or female on female. The pecking order is trying to be a stablished. And the two were fighting for top spot. They won't stop fighting til it is resolved. I occasionally have a change in power in my flock and they will...
We need a pic of the area. To tame the chick, enclose her in a pen and offer her feed from your hand. Do this for 3 or 4 days and she will warm up. Or she will learn way way later to run to you for food but she won't be a lap pet
I do believe that the standard gene will appear every once in a while and if it does hold on to those big birds and brewed to larger hens to get a standard sized bird. I managed to acquire a standard or close to standard size paint Silkie in va. He was big as my brahma roo!
I wouldn't say a month old. Few weeks. Close to a month maybe. But white parents doesn't mean that all offspring will be white. White is a wild card. It hides a lot of unusual colors a genes. In your case, it looks like you will have 2 beautifully white babies :)
Yes! My pet chicken sexes silkies. It's pricey but good. Ordered 8 pullets. Got 7 pullets and a roo. They refunded me for the roo and I just kept him lol