Need Chicken Love Advice

[RoosterWhisperer]

In the photo where they’re piled up in a towel, it shows that they look all fluffy and that there’s nothing going on in their wings. But actually, if you apply a little pressure extended their wings, little sticks will show. When the sticks are rounded out and overlap in two hatched layers, they’re female. If they were singular, short, and uniform: cockerel. In the photos I attached in my previously reply, it shows a good visual.
Then with the photo of her laying down you can see her wings are coming in like a hen. Based on the charts and etc.

So cute, thank you for this information! What is her name?

 

[Oldegarlicshnapp]

So cute, thank you for this information! What is her name?

No problem! I’ve named them Whitney, Sylvia, and Victoria just to have expensive white girl names lmao

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I got them from Meyers Hatchery online. The thing is you may not believe me, but I’m able to sex them successfully at a day old. It’s pretty easy since I found charts and some writing. I’ll attach the charts. It’s only a huge coincidence that they all came female.
If anything, I’ve had some luck finding two Batam breeders on Craigslist. They’re only polish though, since they’re ornamental breeders.

Oh....oh dear.
Silkies are NOT wing or feather sexable.

 

[CrazyCochin]

In the photo where they’re piled up in a towel, it shows that they look all fluffy and that there’s nothing going on in their wings. But actually, if you apply a little pressure extended their wings, little sticks will show. When the sticks are rounded out and overlap in two hatched layers, they’re female. If they were singular, short, and uniform: cockerel. In the photos I attached in my previously reply, it shows a good visual.
Then with the photo of her laying down you can see her wings are coming in like a hen. Based on the charts and etc.

You are good at this wing sexing thing.

 

[CrazyCochin]

No problem! I’ve named them Whitney, Sylvia, and Victoria just to have expensive white girl names lmao

I love those names! Sylvia is a beautiful name!

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

No problem! I’ve named them Whitney, Sylvia, and Victoria just to have expensive white girl names lmao

So cute! I love the names especially Sylvia and Victoria!

Do they enjoy to be cuddled?

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

The thing is you may not believe me, but I’m able to sex them successfully at a day old.

I believe you one hundred percent!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I have had a joke misunderstood on here. I try to make it very obvious I'm joking now People do seriously say things like this on here and I can see how it would be frustrating for someone who is used to answering serious chicken health questions. Stupid internet.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Wing sexing ONLY works on specific crosses. You need a parent of a fast feathering breed and a parent of a slow feathering breed. Depending on who's who, the chicks will have sex-linked feathering.
Silkies are purebred.
They don't have those genes.
Feather sexing (slightly different) is a smimilar thing but works on judging the length and angle of the feathers.
But it doesn't work on all birds.
On purebreds, the feathering is not connected to the gender of the chick.
Just like how my baby teeth wouldn't have grown in differently if I was a boy.
Wing sexing is unreliable.

I've raised 10 female birds and looked at their wing feathers.

My RIR grew her wings in all over the place. She lays eggs daily now.
My Dominique girls grew theirs in even and lovely. One went broody this spring, and her sister gave me a double yolked egg.
My BR had slow, choppy feathering. But she was still a she.


You seem like a nice member. I don't want to get in an argument.
But there are so many blogs and facebook posts and hatchery pages that are chock-full of incorrect information.
Whatever you read, I don't believe it's true.

 

[CrazyCochin]

duble

(Friendly correction: Double)