Faverolles Thread

[Deeannie]

Oh your luck I'm questioning if 1 of mine is a cockerel, it's comb is a tad redder and waddle spots are showing. Maybe the shyness is why I think they aren't the nicest things either. They're pickers too, my poor salmons beard is completely gone and they're picking each others too. They just started to get fluffy I've got barred rocks and Rhode Island reds and they've always been super sweet and friendly, the polish are too. They are 11 weeks today and seem much smaller than yours, I hope they're not Bantams. I'm hoping they splash a bit like your cockerel. Pics are a week and a half old.

 

[kadavis08]

If your'e talking about the one in front there,that's a girl.

Ended up being a rooster! Around 13 weeks his saddle feathers were really obvious and then his sickle feathers started coming in.

 

[kadavis08]

It's a cockerel. If the comb isn't a giveaway the red leakage in the wings definitely is.

You were right!

 

[Chickassan]

Wow! You got a really weird looking rooster, I'm a little jealous.

You were right!

 

[pointsalamander]

Hi there! I think I posted back many many pages ago. Since then my chickens have grown and are now over 6 months old. Just last week 1 of my two salmon faverolle started laying! I was so excited. WE finally decided to try the eggs and one of them had a blood spot (which I freaked out about as a first time chicken mom) I posted it to facebook and was told that the egg without the blood spot had been fertlized! Cue panic. I live in a no roosters allowed city. My only other chicken is a black silkie. No one crows.... only the one salmon faverolle is laying (I know its her because well she's the only one that walks up to the second story of the coop and that is where all the eggs are). So this leaves me with which bird is a roo? I got these ask sexed pullets from a feed mill. The photos attached here are the egg and my laying girl. (egg they said is fertilized is the left egg)

 

[pointsalamander]

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!)

 

[keesmom]

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!)

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).

 

[pointsalamander]

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).

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)

 

[AUChickenGal]

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!

 

[Chickassan]

Way to go Puff! I need her to have a talk with my girls, maybe tell them how great laying eggs is.

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!