HELP! I think I have a Gentleman amongst Ladies!!

[Allcoopedupwith6]

Hello all!!!

I need a little help, we purchased our first flock about two weeks ago, we THOuGHT we got all females, but.... as the weeks go by we are starting to think our beautiful Faverolles Fig is actually a rooster. Can anyone help? She/He is bigger than the other five and their comb is pinkish red instead of yellow (again unlike all the others) also, it’s hard to see a clear second row of feathers . They are all a day or two shy of five weeks so I’m not sure if I just need to wait a little longer to find out. We wanted a male but we wanted to wait about a year before getting one. So either way we’d be excited .... just want to know if I should look out for crowing instead of clucking lol

 

[Gray Farms]

Yep, that's a cockerel.

 

[azygous]

The reddish comb is certainly pointing to this being a little dude. Over the next week, if it keeps getting redder, you'll know you need to pick out a boy name.

 

[sourland]

Color indicates cockerel. A pullet would not have the dark feathering.

 

[Naser]

Nice bird

 

[chrissynemetz]

I agree, looking at the comb and the feather coloring, you have a little cockerel there

 

[Allcoopedupwith6]

Thank you so much!! We thought all the “signs” pointed towards a male (including coloring) but of course you can never be to sure when they are this young from what we’ve read. It’s funny because my five year old picked him out because of the coloring (the only one out of the 30+ the hatchery had with any black ‍)
I’ll have to post a follow up in a week or so to see the changes!!

 

[sourland]

Can you keep him ? Faverolles are beautiful roosters.

 

[Jraba1315]

Cockerel, I had the same thing happen to me when I got three faverolle “pullets” I guess the odds are just not in our favor lol

 

[Allcoopedupwith6]

Can you keep him ? Faverolles are beautiful roosters.

Yes!!! We wanted one but planned on waiting to get one until we got a feel for the hens. Guess we ended up getting one sooner lol .... our neighbor behind us has a rooster also so the neighbors are used to the noise lol