I love all my silkies... thing is half of them appear to be turning out roosters ;m; including the much loved blue(gray) one, a color I have been trying to obtain for over a decade! Also both my solid reds are boys, whyyyyyy ;A;

I have 5 confirmed hens and 5 confirmed roos, the rest are a few weeks younger and too young to tell for sure just yet.

ooooooooooh well... *sigh

There is nothing that legally keeps me from having roos, I have the required space to be free from any poultry legality beyond the guideline of "as many as I can properly maintain" but where I live is no longer rural, it used to be, but now Carmichael is a suburban land dotted with older farm properties, me being one of them...
... And with all my neighbors being of the suburb type I have to careful with noise complaints, so either I keep no roosters or I keep them confined to a soundproof box from sundown to 9am to assure no one looses sleep, and even then I have to HOPE the neighbors will still tolerate daytime crowing.

So in the end I will likely opt to keep no roos, even though I love roos, they have so much more personality than the hens ;w; and red silkie roos are so pretty.

SO

Since I likely will not keep my boys...

Would anyone near me like to adopt one of my silky roos in the future? I have a lovely pale blue and some reds, and possibly some reds flecked with brown and black (if they turn out male)


PS the splash (white with gray dots) silkie shown is a special baby, she was born with a crooked face, her beak is bent sideways and one eye is too far forward. We have to periodically trim her beak to keep it from becoming a scissor bill, otherwise she gets by just fine though. Her name is Quasie.