Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Rshumpal]

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?

 

[Rshumpal]

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.

 

[MysteryChicken]

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.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Chickies...

 

[MysteryChicken]

Chickies...

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We loves the peeps.

 

[Rshumpal]

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.

 

[Rshumpal]

Chickies...

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So cute

 

[AllenK RGV]

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.

 

[MysteryChicken]

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.

Looks male to me, I have a black silkie cockerel that doesn't carry his body like a boy.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

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...