Silkie hen or rooster?

Jennagreen20

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Apr 19, 2020
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My white silkie is definitely a rooster (he’s crowing) so he’s going to live with my sister on her 20 acres (we can’t have roosters where we live). I’m wondering if the grey one is also a rooster and should go with him? And what about the brown one? I think she’s a hen but I’m no expert.

The grey one has always been a runt, smaller than the others but he looks to me to have more features like my white one than the brown.

If there’s no way to tell til he crows or lays, is it better to send him with the rooster and take him back if he is a she? Or keep him with the hens and send him to live with the white one if he starts crowing? Is it more likely that the rooster would fight him if he came to live with him later? Or more likely that the hens would not let him come back?
 

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They both look like roos to me. In the pic, the black one had a roo stance, and them tail feathers are like a roo. The buff I couldn’t see stance, but tail feathers also look like a roo. And the comb is of a roo.
Both Roos is my guess.
But I could be wrong with the buff. Pretty sure about the black though
 
The buff walks more boat like most of the time, but I am not experienced enough to make an educated guess! Thanks for your thoughts!
 
The Combs are really wide which is something seen on cockerels... I dont want to say you have all boys though :'( I'd personally wait to see but maybe let your sister know she may be getting two more eventually? They could not be showing as much because they're the more submissive roosters/lower on the pecking order
 
The Combs are really wide which is something seen on cockerels... I dont want to say you have all boys though :'( I'd personally wait to see but maybe let your sister know she may be getting two more eventually? They could not be showing as much because they're the more submissive roosters/lower on the pecking order
Will the white one let them come in if they turn out to be roosters?
 

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