New chicken mama, sexing help!

Silkie and Easter eggers hens or roos?

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Tasha120607

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Hi everyone! I am a new chicken mama and I’m hoping to get help sexing 6 of my chickens (3 silkies and 3 Easter eggers). I’m pretty sure I have at least one rooster, the lighter Easter eggers but would love everyone’s opinions!
All are just about 7-8 weeks old. Thanks!
 

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Can you please get side pictures if the ees and close comb pictures of the silkies?
Yes I’ll get better ones when I get home from work but here’s a few I have from my camera roll:
 

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I should add I have 9 total, 3 hens and these 6 which are unknown. I know I shouldn’t have more than one rooster in this flock so I’m praying I get lucky with hens, I already love them all 🥹
 
Hi everyone! I am a new chicken mama and I’m hoping to get help sexing 6 of my chickens (3 silkies and 3 Easter eggers). I’m pretty sure I have at least one rooster, the lighter Easter eggers but would love everyone’s opinions!
All are just about 7-8 weeks old. Thanks!
2nd to the last (red comb. Patchy black & white EE) is a roo. Silkies are notoriously difficult to sex. Other EE, need more pics
 
Welcome to BYC. I can't help with the silkies but I believe the easter eggers are cockerels. If your flock is bantam, you may be able to keep a couple of them with no problem.
 
Thank you so much everyone! Definitely not the answers I was hoping for but I appreciate all the replies. Here are some for pictures I just took (please don’t mind the mess I was cleaning the brooder- chicken coops almost finished). I’m wondering- what do you guys think is the probability of the EE’s? There is one I really don’t want to give up and I’m going to wait and see on the silkies. I’m hoping that if it’s extremely likely they are all male, I’ll give away 2 to my aunts farm and get 2 more definite pullets? At that point, minus the silkies, I would have 6 definite hens, one rooster.
 

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