Is My Salmon Faverolles a Roo or Just a Strange Color??

[ChickieChickieMama]

She's plenty fluffy for 17 weeks I think her coloration makes her look sleeker. She is beautiful btw! She will get fluffier as she ages, fluffy and wide lol!

Thanks, perhaps you're right about it making her look sleeker. I think too because she has so much patterning going on in each feather that they look shorter and more by broken up, but I do think she's gorgeous!

What about her "beard" I don't see much of one, but I think there's a hint...do you think that will grow in more or is she essentially beardless? I think that's what's really throwing me off for her shape.

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

She’s such a unique color pattern ( I still really like it) , I wish I new more about the melanotic gene to understand if that is what is going on...

I wonder if @nicalandia would be able to tell us if that gene would express like that on salmon/Wheaton pattern?

What do think nicalandia? What do you think is going on genetically with this dark patterned Faverolle ( sold as a salmon Faverolle)?

Thanks, I wish I knew more too! I think I will post in the genetics forum...I've started obsessing over this and nothing I have found yet has given me any new answers just more questions!!

I absolutely adore her, even though she's not at all what I expected (and I'd love to have a more standard Faverolles too). But I have built a flock of all different breeds trying to find the strangest and most unique ones, so she's exactly my kind of gal! She's also a total sweetheart so she's one of my favourites..she and her bestie (my Spangled Russian Orloff who actually looks like she could be her half sister!) are the two who always come looking for attention first everyday. They're the sweetest besties I've ever seen, with such a remarkable bond I can't help but love them both dearly!

(Mischka is wearing a little dress because Vera had been tugging on her back feathers out of shyness...it was her way of asking her friend to protect her and each time, her bestie stepped up and tucked her sweetly under her wing or helped her get the good treats that all the bigger hens were hoarding!)

 

[Chickassan]

She has a beard going on, she's definitely not beardless. It will get poofier as she gets older. Honestly it looks like she has as much as my girl with the big beard had at that age. My totally beardless girl had nothing at 17 weeks not even a hint.

Thanks, perhaps you're right about it making her look sleeker. I think too because she has so much patterning going on in each feather that they look shorter and more by broken up, but I do think she's gorgeous!

What about her "beard" I don't see much of one, but I think there's a hint...do you think that will grow in more or is she essentially beardless? I think that's what's really throwing me off for her shape.

 

[ChickenObsession]

so @ChickenObsession are those pics of the same chic, or different chicks?

In any case that a pretty bird(s)!

are they from Ideal Hatchery also?

Yes her name is taffy and she's from Ideal Hatchery

 

[ChickenObsession]

Thanks, I wish I knew more too! I think I will post in the genetics forum...I've started obsessing over this and nothing I have found yet has given me any new answers just more questions!!

I absolutely adore her, even though she's not at all what I expected (and I'd love to have a more standard Faverolles too). But I have built a flock of all different breeds trying to find the strangest and most unique ones, so she's exactly my kind of gal! She's also a total sweetheart so she's one of my favourites..she and her bestie (my Spangled Russian Orloff who actually looks like she could be her half sister!) are the two who always come looking for attention first everyday. They're the sweetest besties I've ever seen, with such a remarkable bond I can't help but love them both dearly!

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(Mischka is wearing a little dress because Vera had been tugging on her back feathers out of shyness...it was her way of asking her friend to protect her and each time, her bestie stepped up and tucked her sweetly under her wing or helped her get the good treats that all the bigger hens were hoarding!)

Hi I'm wondering how Vera is doing?

 

[ChickenObsession]

I think my Taffy little favrile is definitely a girl now she looks a lot different I'll post more pictures of Taffy tomorrow for you

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Yep... I was just thinking about those funky favs recently.... definitely need some update pics!

 

[marbetu]

Hello ChickieChickieMama
your hen or cock is exactly the same as my 4.
I finally know what they arenow.
faverolles. who would have thought?
I got them as chicks,
Here also is a video that shows the evolution from chick-hood

best regards from belgium

Here's a better picture of this chickie's back. See how all the feathers look like pullet feathers? Straight tail no curve, all rounded feathers, no points. I'm so confused.

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Is it possible this is not a Faverolles? Or a weird cross breed? Do any hens end up with black chests ever? Her markings don't seem to have any rhyme or reason....definitely don't look like partridge to me. And they don't look like the Faverolles cockerels I see when I Google...

Can you tell I'm desperate here?

For background, my first chicks I bought five pullets and three Bantam straight run - I ended up with six cockerels and two hens - and two of the so-called pullets weren't even the right breed.

Round two, I got much luckier and sound up with only 2 of 4 straight runs as boys, as well as two more hens. By this point, I realized my first ones were all boys (and I've gotten good at seeing the difference between pullet and cockerel feathers!) so I frantically ordered 13 sexed pullets from Ideal to balance my flock so I could hopefully keep at least a few roosters since I've grown attached and like their benefits to the hens.

One didn't survive transport. The rest are this little one's crew. As it is there are two others already with a little more pink in their combs than I'd prefer. But this one just has me so confused!

And if it is a cockerel, does everyone have this bad of luck or is it just me?!

Here's a better picture of this chickie's back. See how all the feathers look like pullet feathers? Straight tail no curve, all rounded feathers, no points. I'm so confused.

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Is it possible this is not a Faverolles? Or a weird cross breed? Do any hens end up with black chests ever? Her markings don't seem to have any rhyme or reason....definitely don't look like partridge to me. And they don't look like the Faverolles cockerels I see when I Google...

Can you tell I'm desperate here?

For background, my first chicks I bought five pullets and three Bantam straight run - I ended up with six cockerels and two hens - and two of the so-called pullets weren't even the right breed.

Round two, I got much luckier and sound up with only 2 of 4 straight runs as boys, as well as two more hens. By this point, I realized my first ones were all boys (and I've gotten good at seeing the difference between pullet and cockerel feathers!) so I frantically ordered 13 sexed pullets from Ideal to balance my flock so I could hopefully keep at least a few roosters since I've grown attached and like their benefits to the hens.

One didn't survive transport. The rest are this little one's crew. As it is there are two others already with a little more pink in their combs than I'd prefer. But this one just has me so confused!

And if it is a cockerel, does everyone have this bad of luck or is it just me?!

 

[ChickenObsession]

Hello ChickieChickieMama
your hen or cock is exactly the same as my 4.
I finally know what they arenow.
faverolles. who would have thought?
I got them as chicks,
Here also is a video that shows the evolution from chick-hood

best regards from belgium

Thankyou I really liked your vedyoe

 

[Newbie2BYC]

View attachment 1480379 View attachment 1480382 I got this little darling from Ideal approximately nine weeks ago with a big handpicked mix of pretty pullets. Of course, she's been my baby from the start, incredibly friendly and cuddly, which I have heard is typical of the breed. But this isn't my first rodeo and I know now that sadly it likely means she's a cockerel. Because all of my favourite little cuddly sweethearts turned out to be cockerels.

Sigh. On top of that, her colouring is so strange and doesn't seem to match anything I've read about online even for other colours of Faverolles...though there aren't great descriptions or pictures that I have found yet. However, I've read a few other posts where folks say that the hatcheries sometimes have some strange crosses behind the scenes which can lead to some abnormaly coloured hens.

That being said, she looks pretty "pullety" to me, haha. No bright red comb, no wattles, no hackle feathers (and even though she has lots of black, it is all over rather than just on her chest and wings as a cockerel would have. She's got a fluffy muff and beard though, and all the long toes you'd expect from a faverolles.

So...thoughts?

Hi, i know this post was a few years ago but i happen to have a salmon faverolle that is about 6-7 weeks old now and looking a lot like yours did. They have a black chest but not much of a comb. I was hoping you could tell me if yours turned out to be a roo or a pullet with strange coloring. Thank you!!