New Silkies!---Pic heavy---NEED silkie Experts!

[MonkeyZero]

Hiya

I finally got my silkies. Seem like girls, but I wanted to be sure.
Tiny bumps for spurs, very tiny combs, and they havent crowed at all(got them 2 hours ago). THey are 5 months old

Seeta

Geeta

Together

Do they seem healthy? Do they look ok?
They are sooo docile!

Thanks!

 

[MonkeyZero]

oh yeah
The feed store guy says they are hens. I don't really rely on him, since he has sexed chickens wrong before...

Right now, they are sitting, and sleeping in the corner of the coop. Is this normal for the 1st day>

 

[MonkeyZero]

oh yeah can someone also tell me what quality they are?

Thanks

 

[juliechick]

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Silkies don't like to roost much. They will probably sleep in the corner from now on. I think one looks like a rooster and one a pullet. I'm not an expert on quality, so maybe someone else will chime in today.

 

[MonkeyZero]

Really? A roo and a hen?
I feel only very tiny pimple like bumps for their spurs.
U sure? I think 2 hens. But lets get some more experts/2nd opinion about them

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Spurs are not an accurate way to sex a chicken. Both males and females get them, though the males do get theirs earlier. It takes them a a while to grow.

I agree with a Pullet and Cockerel or possible two Cockerels, the pics weren't that great.

As far as quality, they are pet quality.

 

[Mommi3130]

I agree with a pullet and a cockeral, from the look of their combs.

 

[MonkeyZero]

Ill get new pics up then, lol...

 

[MonkeyZero]

Re-uploaded pics

Seeta

Geeta(who hates pictures taken...)

Also, being a believer of old wives tales(i know, not accurate)
I went around with a plum bob(I use it for dowsing lol), and went around and get the gender of every one, and everything in the house.
all was accurate! lol
SO Im guessing 2 hens, till someone else chimes in.
I'm so defiant!!! UGH!

 

[MonkeyZero]

After close observation, Seeta is the leader of the peck order.
Both are doing ok, but for some reason, they both kinda show submission to each other(they preen each other a lot)