Chick color breed

[MyLittlePetShop]

I wonder how these chicks will look like when they grow upthey are silkie mixed

 

[nuthatched]

Too early for gender but they'll likely be variations if Partridge

 

[NatJ]

I wonder how these chicks will look like when they grow upthey are silkie mixed

I notice the photos are labeled boy or girl. What method are you using to sex them this young?

For adult appearance, I would expect them to have normal-textured feathers (not Silkie feathers), some feathers on the feet and lower legs, probably crests on the heads, muff/beard on the face. Combs will be rose or walnut (I can't tell those two apart at this young age).

When they grow their feathers, the darkest few will have black and brown colors in some sort of a pattern (might resemble Partridge). For the chicks that are lighter in color, they may show a lighter brown, or they may have white, to go with the black in their pattern. For all of them, the pattern is likely to change as they grow older, so their first feathers will probably look different than their full adult features (for example, there might be lines of black and brown going sideways across the feathers at one age, and lines going around the edges of the feathers at a different age. Or there might be dots of different colors on the feathers of some of them at one age or another.)

 

[MyLittlePetShop]

I notice the photos are labeled boy or girl. What method are you using to sex them this young?

For adult appearance, I would expect them to have normal-textured feathers (not Silkie feathers), some feathers on the feet and lower legs, probably crests on the heads, muff/beard on the face. Combs will be rose or walnut (I can't tell those two apart at this young age).

When they grow their feathers, the darkest few will have black and brown colors in some sort of a pattern (might resemble Partridge). For the chicks that are lighter in color, they may show a lighter brown, or they may have white, to go with the black in their pattern. For all of them, the pattern is likely to change as they grow older, so their first feathers will probably look different than their full adult features (for example, there might be lines of black and brown going sideways across the feathers at one age, and lines going around the edges of the feathers at a different age. Or there might be dots of different colors on the feathers of some of them at one age or another.)

I check them like that, and by their wing feathers too

 

[NatJ]

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I check them like that, and by their wing feathers too

I'd love to see updates when they are old enough to show their sex by other traits (combs, wattles, feathering), to learn how accurate it was.

 

[nuthatched]

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I check them like that, and by their wing feathers too

All of those methods are inaccurate, cruel and inhumane, please don't ever do those again.

 

[MyLittlePetShop]

All of those methods are inaccurate, cruel and inhumane, please don't ever do those again.

It’s not that bad, plus I do it gently so don’t worry