Help sexing my babies!

[WaikaneChickens]

I'm a new chicken owner and pretty clueless as to how sexing works. I've tried to read articles but am still a bit unclear. Any help would be appreciated!!

We have four. The eldest being? maybe four or five weeks? I’m unsure of the breed. Pretty sure cockerel. Please feel free to suggest breed of this one too! The middle two around 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 weeks. The blue is a blue cochin and the multicolored is a Bantam silkie and the youngest being two weeks and also a bantam silkie. The three eldest I’m most curious about. The baby I know is still super young. I know silkies are difficult to sex just curious if You Guys had any guesses! Aloha!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

The first pic and the Speckled Sussex look like cockerels.

 

[itspebbl]

2x
The Speckled Sussex is your mystery breed chick, I'm pretty sure

 

[Seaecho]

I'm pretty sure the cochin is a cockerel. The silkie has a lot of comb for that age, making me think it might be a cockerel too, but Silkies can throw you curve balls.

 

[WaikaneChickens]

I'm pretty sure the cochin is a cockerel. The silkie has a lot of comb for that age, making me think it might be a cockerel too, but Silkies can throw you curve balls.

I was actually super surprised at his feather and comb development. He was the smallest when I left for vacation a week ago! I came back and bam! But that’s what I thought too, everything says typically it takes around eight months to figure it out with silkies and even then it can be hard to tell so I was definitely surprised that he was taking more male traits. But then his wings look like all the “female ” diagrams to me.

Next question. If we only have four hens is it possible to keep two roosters in the same pen? Or is that a terrible idea?

 

[Seaecho]

Do you mean keep the roosters with the hens, or separate? Really doesn't matter anyway, because most of the time, roosters will fight. And with only four hens . . .you're really asking for trouble. It's recommended you have 8-10 hens per rooster. So not only would the roosters be fighting, but the hens would be getting overbred too, and they would look terrible in no time at all. I found out the hard way. I had only one cockerel and three hens, and most of the feathers on a couple of the hen's heads are gone. I had to re-home him because there was constant drama, and now there is peace.

 

[drumstick diva]

Bad idea same reasons as Seaecho

 

[WaikaneChickens]

Has anyone ever heard of the implant that capons the male chickens? I briefly saw something the other day.

I'm so sad, the blue is my baby. Thank you all for your advice!