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

[OhZark Biddies]

and I just keep looking at your pics and thinking the comb and shape of the bird are saying pullet to me also... but it would cerntainly be an odd colored salmon faverolle if so ...

soooo, not sure ???

 

[Chickassan]

Lol, we are in the same boat. It sure is shaped like a pullet. I don't have any hatchery bird pics to compare to though mine are pretty cut and dried when it comes to sexing. I do have a hatchery bird in the brooder but it isn't old enough to be much help.

and I just keep looking at your pics and thinking the comb and shape of the bird are saying pullet to me also... but it would cerntainly be an odd colored salmon faverolle if so ...

soooo, not sure ???

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Just remembered these pics from my coop page... I think these would be from about 8 to 9 weeks, but the combs were very noticable on the cockerels at that point.

 

[PouleChick]

Roo or werid mix!
This is Chole my 8 weekish Salmon Faverolles:

 

[Brandiebean]

Lam new here. I don’t know what yours is but I’m in the same boat as you. My bird is an Easter Egger. About 3 months old now. Can you tell me what gender it is?

 

[JedJackson]

View attachment 1481891 View attachment 1481892 View attachment 1481893 Lam new here. I don’t know what yours is but I’m in the same boat as you. My bird is an Easter Egger. About 3 months old now. Can you tell me what gender it is?

The bird in front is a definite cockerel, the one in back a pullet.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

@ChickieChickieMama

Here are some related "odd color salmon faverolle" links.

This link shows some off colored salmon favs from Ideal Hatchery:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/atypical-salmon-faverolle-hen-or-roo.1129907/

This link shows a bird at 6-7 weeks, and then another person ended up owning herd and posted a pic of it a couple months later:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/salmon-faverolle-roo.114593/



@Brandiebean

Welcome to Backyard Chickens! I think your EE is a cockerel... and that coloring is probably going to be pretty spectacular!

 

[JedJackson]

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?

Slow maturing cockerel. Black breast feathers on a salmon Faverolle always means boy. This bird also has thick legs.

 

[Cyprus]

It's a male.
I've had similar issues.
I paid premium for pullets three times in a row. First it was for 6 EE pullets from Tractor Supply, 2 of which turned out to be cockerels. Then, two consecutive times one week apart, I made orders of only two pullets each. Each time both were cockerels.
I no longer order from that hatchery.

 

[keesmom]

That's a pullet. I knew she came from Ideal without even having to read your post. You aren't the first to get an awful colored pullet from there.