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

[Chickassan]

For real, they're that off? Do you know how Meyer's fare iv'e found a couple pictures but not many at all.

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.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

...You aren't the first to get an awful colored pullet from there.

It's awful for "Salmon", but I kinda dig it otherwise .

I hope @ChickieChickieMama will come back and post more pics over the next many weeks to show us how this bird matures.

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

It's awful for "Salmon", but I kinda dig it otherwise .

I hope @ChickieChickieMama will come back and post more pics over the next many weeks to show us how this bird matures.

Hey sorry I disappeared!! I've just been reading and rereading all these posts over and over again and googling pictures trying to figure out what is going on with this bird!

And yes, I completely agree...I think this strange colouring is beautiful too! In fact, it looks a lot like a Speckled Sussex, which I really wanted but couldn't get. But it's definitely not the soft light salmon I was expecting!

So, at present, I'm choosing denial and I'm hoping it's a pullet, but I'm also not getting too attached just in case. I do love roosters but I already had eight (possibly nine) so I've also had my share of falling in love only to have to let go (after they turned on us. I have two toddlers so no matter what, their safety comes first.) We're currently at two cockerels with one maybe (a Silkie so who knows?! ) and 18 pullets (fingers crossed because this lovely is in that group still!)

I'll definitely keep you all posted...this is so interesting to me too! Thank you everyone for helping me out with your experience!

 

[Abriana]

It's a cockerel. Salmon faverolle Roos still have some salmon color on their backs. Legs are less fluffy than mine but hatchery stock varies.

Sorry you're having such bad luck! I had the opposite problem. Ordered straight run expecting 50% male and got 90% female. Had to build another coop! Now my broody has set and I'm trying to figure out how to keep 1 or 2 of her babies

LOL! when you want males you get females, when you want females, it seems like all you get is males.

 

[keesmom]

For real, they're that off? Do you know how Meyer's fare iv'e found a couple pictures but not many at all.

Of course not all are that dark, but I have seen others as bad from people posting here asking the same question. Pullets with completely black muffs/beard/chests. I've also seen some of Ideal's stock in person.

As for Meyer, a few years ago for giggles I got a dozen Meyer Fav chicks from a feed store to keep 2 hatchlings company. As chicks they all looked the same - solid yellow and all with great toes. No extra toes or nails. When they matured there was a definite difference between the Meyer pullets and mine, but the hatchery birds weren't that bad. Type wise they were decent, no split wings, good tailset. A small number had some black flecking in the beards. All were half the size of my breeder Favs though.

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

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?

Wow, beautiful birds!

I also got Easter Eggers in this order and I keep wondering if maybe this one was a five toed EE!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

So, at present, I'm choosing denial...

The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s mother wanted a little girl so much, that she dressed him in dresses until he was old enough to go to school, and gave him the middle name Maria...

So I guess that’s an option, if isn’t a pullet ... just give it a girl name, put a wig over the comb, and maybe make it wear one of those hen saddles...

 

[Abriana]

The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s mother wanted a little girl so much, that she dressed him in dresses until he was old enough to go to school, and gave him the middle name Maria...

So I guess that’s an option, if isn’t a pullet ... just give it a girl name, put a wig over the comb, and maybe make it wear one of those hen saddles...

When I hatched my very first batch of chicks, two were boys and one was a girl. One of the males was killed by a hawk and I really didn’t want to give the other up and I had focused so much on the fact that it was a male because of the sickle feathering and shiny droopy tail feathers, that I kept coming back to the thought that I could just cut off the sickle and the tail and that would make it female. LOL! so you could just cut off the tail and sickle and there you have it-now it’s a pullet

 

[OhZark Biddies]

...so you could just cut off the tail and sickle and there you have-now it’s a pullet

Oh and eggs, we forgot the denial strategy for eggs... going to have to get one of those wooden eggs and pretend that little miss rooster lady laid it each day

 

[Abriana]

Oh and eggs, we forgot the denial strategy for eggs... going to have to get one of those wooden eggs and pretend that little miss rooster lady laid it each day

Yes! You could paint it with fun patterns too and be like, “my HEN lays these very unique eggs. They’re rare and expensive. $20 per carton please.”