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If you want good crests you need to go to someone who breeds Silkies, not a hatchery.

The second, darker one I would say roo. The lighter one, 75% roo, 25% pullet.

I think 3, 4 and 5 are boys. The other two... not sure.

We do 3-5 to one roo. Any more than that and we find that fertility drops. It does depend on the rooster though.

Wow, she is gorgeous!

Our White three month olds enjoying the one day of sun we have had recently!

All so beautiful! Especially the Partridges. I think it's my favorite Silkie color.

We have one Silkie pullet who lays a very pale dusky rose colored egg.

On some of my roos, the streamers are the ONLY indication that they are boys, they have the girl afro look. But I do have a girl who has a crest that isn't an afro, it swooshes back more... But she lays an egg. That was surprising since we bought her as a boy.

Splash bred to splash can cause that washed out look.

We are in West TN and breed Paint and Buff, not Black though.

Sometimes it can even be an incubation issue with missing nails. I think that a missing nail is a fault, not a DQ, but a missing toe is a DQ. If it has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other, I would test mate and see what the chicks come out like. If it has 4 toes on both feet I wouldn't use it...

Aaron Hunsinger breeds cuckoo, he is in PA.

Love them. Porcelain is such a beautiful color and these guys (and girls) are gorgeous!

The Paint does look like a Silver Partridge or Grey. Sometimes Paint breedings can produce some odd things. We just hatched 10 Paint eggs from a breeder and had two Partridge chicks in the mix.

Snowball started laying this week! She is a little more than seven months old. I think it helped that we are finally getting some consistent weather unlike the rain-sun-sun-rain pattern we have been having. Now I just have to figure out which breeding pen to add her to in a month...

I like boy 1 also. I would test breed him and see if his chicks have feet issues. If they do I would not keep him.

We ordered a $10 solar light from amazon that does the trick for almost all of our silkies. We have a trio of porcelain that love to sleep on the ground though.

Exactly what I do too. If it looks like it has developed and has never had an obvious blood ring or infertile etc then it goes to lockdown.

It looks like a really light grey.