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When I was doing research on lead poisoning I found one instance where a chicken died of lead poisoning because it had swallowed a lead shell casing :\

ours LOVE eating styrofoam too! drives me nuts!

I promised updates, so ... 7.5 weeks old and she has most of her feathers in now! still looking like a pullet :D

Bit of an aside, but what kind of scoop do you all use? Does a cat litter scoop work, as if the coffee grounds are cat litter?

also, her little beard feathers are coming in :D

six and a half weeks old now... I think you were right, she is starting to look like a (very very hatchery quality) pullet! :yesss: chest feathers started out looking a little black but as they came in as a lighter color with black spots, and her leg feathers look pretty light! of course I...

did she turn out to be a pullet? 🤞 I'm reading all the threads about faverolles sexing and I have a hatchery faverolles that looked just like yours a week or two ago!

Ahhhhhh thank you for responding with your expertise! appreciate it and glad to hear you think it could be a pullet :)

Hi friends! it's been almost a week since my last post and our chickens are 5 weeks old today. I feel like our faverolles gets more feathers every day so I took some more pictures! I'm actually now a little more hopeful that she's a pullet since she still has no strongly colored black feathers...

I just want to say, your name "Ruthter" is very clever haha if she turns out to be male :lol:

thanks for the link! It doesn't have feathers in the middle of the chest yet but they're coming in sort of along the sides, you can see those are part black part brown in the last two pictures. I'm hoping that doesn't count as "solid black" and I can hold out hope for a while longer.

Hi everyone! I also posted on the faverolles thread, but hoping to cast a wider net here. We got a hatchery salmon faverolles 3 weeks ago, she is supposed to be 4.5 weeks old by now. We love her, she's so funny!! Can anyone tell her sex by now? I've looked through a lot of posts here and I...

I promise I will come back and update in a couple months with the final outcome!! I was always sad when finding a past post where I could never know if the guesses were right or wrong.

Hi all! Another "pullet or cockerel" question here ... I know you get tons of these and I swear I've looked through a hundred different examples in this thread but I still would like to know your thoughts! This is our salmon faverolle from a hatchery (I don't know which, I got her from Dare 2...