Bantam Sliver Sussex chicks

[Nicole2025]

Hello all
First time posting and first time hatching eggs myself.

I’ve 4 chicks, 3 Bantam Sliver Sussex and one sliver Sussex cross with a silkie .
I believe I have two roosters and two hens?
I was told a cross between a sliver Sussex and a silkie would either be grey(male) brown(female) is that correct?

Thank you

 

[nuthatched]

The pullet is the one in the middle, so 3 cockerels and one pullet and I don't think any have silkie genes (besides that little brown silkie in the corner).

 

[Nicole2025]

The pullet is the one in the middle, so 3 cockerels and one pullet and I don't think any have silkie genes (besides that little brown silkie in the corner).

The big one beside the silkie is the mother hen , and the rooster of the silkie was a silver Sussex

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Three cockerels and one pullet (in the middle). I don't know nearly enough about breeding and genetics to help with the other part of your question, though.

 

[nuthatched]

The big one beside the silkie is the mother hen , and the rooster of the silkie was a silver Sussex

So, you have another hen that is a silkie that's the mother of the brown silkie, correct? If a Sussex is the dad.
Any way, you have 2 little cockerels and a little pullet, the silkie mix looks like a pullet but it's early.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

The big one beside the silkie is the mother hen , and the rooster of the silkie was a silver Sussex

So the 3 chicks in question include the silkie? And the mother is the bird just above the silkie? If so, my apologies for my guess on 3 cockerels. I was thinking that the mother was another chick of the same age and therefore male.

If so, I think 2 of the 3 chicks are cockerels, and the one pullet is in the middle. If the silkie is in fact the other chick, I'm not sure. I have a silkie who is 13 weeks old, and I'm still not sure of its sex.

 

[Nicole2025]

Yes one silkie egg I mistook for a Sussex egg , but a Sussex rooster is the dad of them all anyways. I was thinking 2 roosters myself, but was unsure

Thank you for your replies

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Yes one silkie egg I mistook for a Sussex egg , but a Sussex rooster is the dad of them all anyways. I was thinking 2 roosters myself, but was unsure

Thank you for your replies

Sorry for my confusion!

 

[BoundlessLove]

Hello all
First time posting and first time hatching eggs myself.

I’ve 4 chicks, 3 Bantam Sliver Sussex and one sliver Sussex cross with a silkie .
I believe I have two roosters and two hens?
I was told a cross between a sliver Sussex and a silkie would either be grey(male) brown(female) is that correct?

Thank you

Just curious, Where did you get the bantam Silver Sussex?

 

[BoundlessLove]

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