Please help sexing chickens!

[New2chickchicks]

I hatched 3 eggs in May and I think they may all be roos, they are 13 weeks old, except the buff silkie which is 18 weeks. Not sure of the other breeds, the person i got them from said they were silkies but he pulled them out of a nest box of a very mixed breed pen and they are clearly not silkies except obviously tbe buff one. Please help!

 

[New2chickchicks]

#2

 

[New2chickchicks]

#3

 

[New2chickchicks]

#4

 

[Mylied]

#3

This is the only one I'm questioning. The rest look male and they look like silkies mixes.

 

[keesmom]

They are all cockerels.

 

[New2chickchicks]

No chance the buff silkie is a pullet? #2 started crowing today. So sad because this one was my daughters favorite, after 36 hours with only a pip we had to help it hatch and he had bad spraddled leg so she has a lot of time invested in this one.

 

[Mylied]

No chance the buff silkie is a pullet? #2 started crowing today. So sad because this one was my daughters favorite, after 36 hours with only a pip we had to help it hatch and he had bad spraddled leg so she has a lot of time invested in this one.

No. Sorry. The females mature pretty slow and that's a great big red comb. Can you not have roosters. I've found silkies roosters to be very sweet tempered.

 

[New2chickchicks]

No. Sorry. The females mature pretty slow and that's a great big red comb. Can you not have roosters. I've found silkies roosters to be very sweet tempered.

Bummer I was hopeful since the silkie rooster I rehomed last year had streamers and much more color. I spoke with the town about this before we got them and apparently there are no firm chicken zoning laws in our town per say. When it comes to livestock it is basically fine as long as no one complains. That being said, we only have 2 acres and our 13 chickens free range all over our neighbors yards without a single complaint. We of course discussed this with them and give them eggs but I would hate to push my luck with a rooster crowing.

 

[Mylied]

Bummer I was hopeful since the silkie rooster I rehomed last year had streamers and much more color. I spoke with the town about this before we got them and apparently there are no firm chicken zoning laws in our town per say. When it comes to livestock it is basically fine as long as no one complains. That being said, we only have 2 acres and our 13 chickens free range all over our neighbors yards without a single complaint. We of course discussed this with them and give them eggs but I would hate to push my luck with a rooster crowing.

I'd hang on to him until it starts crowing, just in case. I guess I shouldn't say there's no chance, just that I haven't seen a silkie hen with that much color and development at that age. Maybe he will be considerate and crow quietly. ;-) Crowing never has bothered me, so I don't get when it bothers people. But I also sleep with a fan, so I don't really hear anything. I rarely hear it in my house, except in one room. And I have a handful of crowing roosters right now, plus the neighbors have roosters.