7 week White faverolle - pullet or cockerel

[Lfgiles]

7 week old. Purchased as chick from local breeder as salmon faverolle. Thoughts?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

at this point, I'm going to say pullet. But its still a little early in my opinion.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I agree. Pullet at this point.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Typically Faverolle cockerels develop a comb pretty quickly. Without something to compare it to, I'd tentatively hope for hen, but I'd wait a bit to be sure. If you email or text some pictures to the breeder they may be more help sexing chicks from their own flock.

 

[Lfgiles]

Typically Faverolle cockerels develop a comb pretty quickly. Without something to compare it to, I'd tentatively hope for hen, but I'd wait a bit to be sure. If you email or text some pictures to the breeder they may be more help sexing chicks from their own flock.

 

[Lfgiles]

Thanks all. Breeder has never seen a white faverolle come out of his flock of salmon’s. I haven’t found a lot of pictures of white chicks on the internet to compare, either.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Hmmm...well if it popped up out of his birds the comb should still develop at normal rate for his flock. Are you going to try to produce some more? It sounds like both parents passed on a recessive white gene, so crossing back to mom or dad should throw more white chicks, or possibly to siblings.

 

[Lfgiles]

Hmmm...well if it popped up out of his birds the comb should still develop at normal rate for his flock. Are you going to try to produce some more? It sounds like both parents passed on a recessive white gene, so crossing back to mom or dad should throw more white chicks, or possibly to siblings.

 

[Lfgiles]

Not me, but breeder said he’d gladly swap him/her out for a salmon.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Pullet

Sounds like you got a rare treasure! You don't often see White Faverolles.