Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

Trying to get a head-count on silkie lovers...

  • ME! - I like silkies!

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Nevermind about the streamers I thought I saw in the first pictures, getting better pictures like this helps, Winifred is a pullets as far as I can see right now. Nugget the buff on the other hand has the streamers coming in which says it's a Cockerel.
Thanks I think you are correct. Nugget hasn’t done anything but peep and cheep but today kept stopping and doing a funny pseudo crow. Got “err err peep” and was very proud strutting around. Wini kept running up and peeping like what are you doing?
 
Well here is where one of my silkies cockerels is at 7.5 months of age. I mention him as he does have streamers I do not trim that part of the silkie as it doesn't interfere with their vision. Streamers are impossible to detect on him, but the hackle feathers are very well defined. I chose this photo as he is the same feathering type as your Nugget @Rshumpal . He does look good wish I could see his(Nugget) comb, but those ears say he is a keeper to me. Is there any chance you can get a photo of Nugget walking to see how the tail feathers are carried? Winifred carries herself like a pullet on her feet.
I’ll get a photo in the morning. If I wake them up now, they won’t go back to sleep. :gig
 
Thanks I think you are correct. Nugget hasn’t done anything but peep and cheep but today kept stopping and doing a funny pseudo crow. Got “err err peep” and was very proud strutting around. Wini kept running up and peeping like what are you doing?
Sounds like you gotta little boy.
 
Chickies...

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Well here is where one of my silkies cockerels is at 7.5 months of age. I mention him as he does have streamers I do not trim that part of the silkie as it doesn't interfere with their vision. Streamers are impossible to detect on him, but the hackle feathers are very well defined. I chose this photo as he is the same feathering type as your Nugget @Rshumpal . He does look good wish I could see his(Nugget) comb, but those ears say he is a keeper to me. Is there any chance you can get a photo of Nugget walking to see how the tail feathers are carried? Winifred carries herself like a pullet on her feet.
Ok, I took a video and then screen shot while Nugget was walking. Photos are in order after the comb shot. Today they are 10 weeks.
 

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Ok, I took a video and then screen shot while Nugget was walking. Photos are in order after the comb shot. Today they are 10 weeks.
Ok this one is a hard nut to crack for my eye. The tail angle does not match my cockerels tail angles, nor does the comb development. The only thing I see suggesting that bird is a cockerel is your report of the learning to crow.
 
I candled the 13 eggs tonight due to expected bad weather over the next few days.

One was infertile (which I expected as it was a first egg), one had a blood ring and was swishing around in the egg, another was also swishing around in the egg.

I cracked them open and the blood ring one was dead as there was no heartbeat, as I expected.

However, the other which was swishing around still had a heartbeat. When I candled it, it was as if nothing was holding it still in the egg at all hence why I believed it had died but sadly not.

The 10 remaining are looking nice and solid though with development!

It's a shame to have lost one after cracking it but it happens...:idunno
 

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