Chicken or dinosaur?

[Tamstar83]

Hi all, I'm a beginner in the chook world and was sold 2 "Silkies", a black and a buff. The black one was older and "definitely female" I was told (will upload pic). Currently the younger of the two is abiut 3x the size of the black one and is looking a lot like something from Jurassic Park! Any suggestions on breed/sex please?

Bath time

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

How old? They both look like roosters to me.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I can't get past that last pic.
Never seen a chicken who's head is so out of proportion to its body.
Looks like it ate a basketball.

 

[Silkie2]

I can't get past that last pic.
Never seen a chicken who's head is so out of proportion to its body.
Looks like it ate a basketball.

buff looks like a rooster and it would be easier to tell with a full body picture of the black silkie, but i'm guessing rooster.
how old are they?

 

[Tamstar83]

The Black one is close to 12 months and the buff around 6 months. Hopefully it's head will catch up to its body!! Surely itsi not pure silkie Though?
Not sure if this pic helps. Someone's gone camera shy

 

[Silkie2]

I would have to say rooster. its hard to tell with silkies for me, so don't just take my word for it. maybe someone with more experience can chime in
cute birds though!

 

[Gray Farms]

The buff isn't pure Silkie in my opinion. Either that or it just got a lot of bad traits. The comb is wrong, skin color is wrong, leg feathering is wrong, pattern is wrong for a buff.

 

[GrannyHeeney]

I love the buff's hair-do. "These kids today and their rock-and-roll hairstyles!" ROFL!

 

[Cyprus]

I agree with all above.
They are both male.
The buff is definitely not a pure silkie.

 

[Tamstar83]

I would have to say rooster. its hard to tell with silkies for me, so don't just take my word for it. maybe someone with more experience can chime in
cute birds though!

Thank you for your reply. They're both real characters and i love them to bits but living in suburbia, I'm not supposed to have roosters