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

[Chickassan]

I was in the chick pen about to take his job back inside before it rained.

Hahaha that's hilarious. Well, it looks like he might have found his calling! I love the intense eye contact he's making with you behind the camera! He is an excellent chick guardian!

 

[mangobees]

she's a pullet "hatchery quality" faverolles tend to have this coloring. my two faverolles molted in almost all black feathers and were girls, but as they got older they lightened up and started looking more like they were supposed to

 

[Chickassan]

Lol! My hatchery girl is slowly feathering and while it isn't terrible there is a definite difference. I don't mind at least I wont mix her up.

 

[ChickenObsession]

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]

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]

 

[ChickenObsession]

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[OhZark Biddies]

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?

 

[Chickassan]

I can't get over how many odd colored pullets are coming out this year and from various hatcheries! Btw I could swear there were more posts this morning what happened? Anyways it looks like Rene my Meyer girl is going to be odd too, her breast is salmon but her head and neck are feathering in dark , every day a few more dark ones pop out. I wish I knew where the eggs from my original trio came from, I got them from MPC but I don't know where they got them.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Cockeral at 7 weeks and 11 weeks.