? About Salmon Faverolle Coloring-UPDATED W/ PICS

[tiki244]

I hatched some Favorelles for the first time this year and I did have a hard time telling them apart at first. (it wasnt as easy as I thought it would be), But in a couple more weeks they will feather out more fully and there will be no doubt which ones are males by then.

 

[tadkerson]

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Could you post a picture of the faverolle with the brown breast. The cream fluff indicates she is pure for the wheaten gene. I would love to see an image of her. Genetically I can not think of any reason for the brown breast in a female. It can happen with males.

Tim

 

[mylilchix]

I'll post pics today. I got my faverolles from Ideal, too. They were both feathering out like hens until a few days ago. One is very light in color, but has black wingtips. The other is getting black around her neck. It could just mean that Ideal doesn't have high quaility faverolles. I wasn't planning on showing them, I just don't need anymore roos!!!

Sonja

 

[mylilchix]

Ok, here are pics of the chicks. They're 6 weeks old. I'd love to know what I have, and if they are a hen and roo are they nice enough to breed?

Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana

Over Easy

Over Easy

Thanks for looking!!
Sonja

 

[greenthumb89]

hannah looks like agirl for sure adn over easy looks like my faverolle and shes a girl so im gonna say you have 2 pullets but you wont want to breed them and sell the eggs as pure bred because they dont look like what the "standard" faverolle is supposed to look like optimumly(sp?) that is. mine is probably a little mutt but i love her anyway

 

[greenthumb89]

and if you look up a male youll see that it has MUCH more black on it and it would already show at the stage that your girls are.

and let it be known that i am no faverolle expert so i could very well be wrong and if someone could correct me that would be awesome

 

[EweSheep]

Both are pullets, guaranteed unless one decided to crow!

 

[LilPeeps]

I agree, two pullets.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have a few Salmon Faverolle. They came from a hatchery and I was supposed to have a roo in the bunch but none of the Faverolles at 9 wks old has a red comb like my other roos of EE, Jersey Giant, Welsummer, Buff Orp, and Cochins.
However, one of the Faverolles is getting very, very black and I suspect that may be a roo. If so, he is a big disappointment so far as he is smaller than his pullets and is the biggest "chicken" in the whole coop. I can barely get him out each day to forge with the rest of the flock. What a wuss.
I got them for eggs and yard candy, not for breeding other than to repopulate my own egg laying flock.
Oh well, maybe he is a beautiful "swan" in his ugly duckling stage.
This has been a great thread, thanks!

 

[tadkerson]

I think the darker feathers on the breast is an environmental thing and a not a genetic problem. Sometimes things happen within the cells to cause a change in color. The dark feathers may be replaced with much lighter feathers when she molts.

Tim