Silkie thread!

[abbevilleoz]

Here is my white Silkie Lily Great photo!

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have this Silkie, about 5 months old, and I'm wondering the gender, I'm leaning on the rooster side, but you can never be totally sure with young silkies, what do you guys think? Oh and the two other white silkies are his/her mom and dad and the partridge is his nanny who hatched him

I would say he's a very handsome little fellow. It's a wonder he hasn't started crowing yet. Mine generaly start laying by 20 weeks and that's always a dead give away. .
Your birds are very nice.

 

[Rocky64]

I would say he's a very handsome little fellow. It's a wonder he hasn't started crowing yet. Mine generaly start laying by 20 weeks and that's always a dead give away. .
Your birds are very nice.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too, he's a scary cat for sure, whenever "regular" chickens come near the silkie pen he hides behind the partridge silkie and peers at the other chickens from behind her no he hasn't started crowing yet. I'm totally fine with him being a rooster because his dad is getting older ( idk how old though because I got him as an adult) thank you silkies sure are a joy to have around the homestead

 

[glenney08]

Does anyone know when you start noticing male/female characteristics in your silkies I have almost month olds now and 2 like to stand alittle taller and like to poke and pick fights with each other . More experienced help would be good thanks !

 

[getreal]

Does anyone know when you start noticing male/female characteristics in your silkies I have almost month olds now and 2 like to stand alittle taller and like to poke and pick fights with each other . More experienced help would be good thanks !

my experience, I noticed around 5 months old. I have 1 rooster Barney. He stands taller than the girls and the feathers on his neck are long straight. he had the good sense to keep quiet while my olive egger roosters were around. since rehoming them Barney starts crowing as soon as the it gets light.

 

[Uzair Ahmed]

Does anyone know when you start noticing male/female characteristics in your silkies I have almost month olds now and 2 like to stand alittle taller and like to poke and pick fights with each other . More experienced help would be good thanks !

my experience, I noticed around 5 months old. I have 1 rooster Barney. He stands taller than the girls and the feathers on his neck are long straight. he had the good sense to keep quiet while my olive egger roosters were around. since rehoming them Barney starts crowing as soon as the it gets light.

He's a cutie.

 

[Aria]

They would be called BUFF. Some Buff are without the black leakage
and they are usually show birds. All Silkies are FINE with us. All
colors are fine. It is just a matter of choices. We have a mixed flock
blue, buff, white, white splash, gray, gray splash. Regards, Aria

 

[daxigait]

Does anyone have a guess on the colors of silkies I posted?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Does anyone have a guess on the colors of silkies I posted?

They look like mostly whites (gold based white with the yellow on their down), but I suppose they could be buff. If you have one that looks blue, it probably is. The brown chick with the stripes doesn't look like a Silkie, so I have no idea. It might help if you post an individual picture of each color you've got. And maybe their little wing feathers if they have them

 

[daxigait]

They look like mostly whites (gold based white with the yellow on their down), but I suppose they could be buff. If you have one that looks blue, it probably is. The brown chick with the stripes doesn't look like a Silkie, so I have no idea. It might help if you post an individual picture of each color you've got. And maybe their little wing feathers if they have them

here you go. Three are white with yellow

One has stripes

And one gets darker steadily. Smutty tail now.

Thanks for the help.