Thank you so much for your replies. I thought they were probably half silkie. The kids will be very pleased. Now I guess they'll either all be cockerels or I'll be spending all next summer sorting out broodiness!
What a great forum.
We got the fox by the way and are re-enforcing the run before...
I lost my whole flock to a fox a while ago and rather to my surprise some of the left over eggs have hatched. We only had one cockerel, he was light sussex but the mother of two of the chicks could either have been a meillefeuille pekin bantam or either a white or brown silkie. I have tried to...