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

Pretty Pullet or Cute Cockerel?

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So you still think she might be a Pullet
ChickieChickieMama said:
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?
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ChickenObsession said:
So you still think she might be a Pullet
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I really don't know, but in my heart I feel certain Vera's a pullet. With my other chicks (who were also sold as sexed pullets) I held out hope but in my heart I knew they were cockerels...and by this age they all had big bright combs and/or wattles, huge legs, pointy feathers (except Delilah) and almost all of them were crowing.

Nothing about Vera screams cockerel to me, except that strange black but it also doesn't scream cockerel because it's not in the same places as it would be for a boy. Some of the links posted above show a number of similar older pullets (many also from Ideal), so the evidence so far seems to point to pullet.

I should also mention behavior wise, Vera is very sweet to me, which some of my favourite cockerels have also done, but otherwise shows no signs of rooster behaviour. No posturing, no chest bumping, no strutting, no pecking the others, no standing guard or herding the others, no preening or staring proudly into the mirrors. She likes to nest most of the time and has a favourite nesting spot by herself that she made by collecting and arranging straw over a dust area groove she made. She watches my hens that are already laying and will sometimes jump up into the nest boxes to check them out after they are finished, which is something only my other pullets do. She also stays far away from the cockerels, whereas all my other boys always liked to hang out together even if they didn't get along. She's cautious but not on the alert like the cockerels are, and she squats or couches when a hawk flies overhead.

My money is on pullet, but if she does happen to be a cockerel I'm thinking there may be a chance she will stay docile enough that we can keep her/him.
 
Shorty22366 said:
Here is my baby He was born June 18th
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