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If your'e talking about the one in front there,that's a girl.
You were right!It's a cockerel. If the comb isn't a giveaway the red leakage in the wings definitely is.
You were right!
The Favs are most definitely pullets. Cockerels have a completely different color pattern. The silkie also looks like a pullet with that round crest. You lucked out with that one - hatcheries do not sex bantams (except for MPC which costs an additional $10 per chick).This is my other salmon faverolle (in front and on left in photos with other birds).
Now its brown and pretty and squats whenever I try pick it up. So I assumed being a sexed chick and the squatting that it was a hen... but now I don't know!
So is it possible Ms. Heart is Mr. Heart?
Or is the egg above really not fertlized? (no chance that my chickens encountered a male chicken at any point that I know I'm the only one around with chickens!)
Yeah the breeder was nice enough to do an educated guess based on behavior but did not sex it before we bought it. We bought from her because she will just take back a rooster (you don't get money back or anything but at least you can give it back knowing she will probably rehome it nicely for you)The Favs are most definitely pullets. Cockerels have a completely different color pattern. The silkie also looks like a pullet with that round crest. You lucked out with that one - hatcheries do not sex bantams (except for MPC which costs an additional $10 per chick).
I think my Faverolles (26 weeks old today) laid her first egg today! The color and size is about what my SS was laying when she first started last year, but the shape is very torpedo-like. The only other bird this could have come from is my Black Australorp, same age as the Faverolles, but I would have expected a larger and darker egg from her. So, for now at least, "Puff" the Faverolles gets the credit!