I've got 8 week old silkies, and out of the 8 I hatched most are cockerels. I'll be keeping 3-4 of the cockerels. The rest of the cockerels will be available for free.
We're in south central Wisconsin.
I've included a picture of the first cockerel to rehome. He has started crowing already.
I have 8 silkies that are 7-7.5 weeks old. I need help figuring out the sex, but I know it's a little early. I can provide more pictures if that helps. My guess behaviorally is that I have a lot of roosters.
I hatched 8 silkies a month and a half ago. I was hoping some of them would be good to start breeding with. I'm not planning to show them necessarily, but I don't want to breed serious genetic problems. Anyway, 3 of the chicks have weird beaks. One is an obvious cross beak and the other two are...
I have some 5 week old silkies I hatched from bought eggs. I'm not totally sure the genetics of the parents. Can anyone tell me what color this one is?
*edited*-The first picture is from 3 weeks old, 4 week pictures are below.
He's actually 4 weeks now (gender unknown, using "he" for now) so if you'd like I can try to get a more up to date picture.
Bought from a co-op, they didn't exactly know what he was, just crested.
His crest is coming...
Almost 1 week ago we bought a new chick. He was in the bantam tub, but none of the labels matched him. The assistant speculated he could be polish/crested, but that doesn't seem to fit. I have been google-ing my head off trying to find similar bantam chicks with slight crests. He is primarily...