??Newbie >>6 Weeks!..3 speckled sussex,1 salmon faverolle,2 Jersey Giants?? sex ??

[whenwood]

So Wednesday they will be 6 weeks old and I'm a little concerned most of them have LG combs and waddles and looking Red so here's a few pictures hopefully you can tell

Jersey Giant #1 (below) it has some some white flaking on the underside and barley any waddles

Jersey Giant #2 (below) barley any white on the chest and waddles a little bit more noticeable

Salmon faverolle ? (below) but it might be mixed with the speckled sussex very nice colors tho

speckled sussex #1 (below) those waddles !

speckled sussex #2 (below)

speckled sussex #3 (below)

 

[Frazzemrat1]

its a hair early, but I think I see either all cockerels, or only one pullet. I'm undecided in regards to that first BJG. Give it till 8 weeks for better guesses.

 

[Alexandra33]

Agree on gender so far. I'm seeing a bunch of mixed breeds, as well. No Speckled Sussex or Faverolles (pure, at least) in the bunch.

~Alex

 

[Sneebsey]

Both the black chicks look female to me. All of the others are definitely male; they have male specific feathering. I also doubt that any are Salmon Faverolles; I see feathered legs and beard on "Speckled Sussex #2", so that is your possible Faverolles, likely a mix or poorly bred bird as he lacks a fifth toe. Where did you get them, as I don't really think the rest are Sussex either; they are the wrong colour and one appears to have yellow legs (may be lighting).

 

[keesmom]

They look like mixed breeds to me as well. Most do look like males.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I think they may be all cockerels. For 6 weeks both of the Jersey Giants look like cockerels to me. JG mature slower than some of the other breeds and those have orange combs and wattles coming in at 6 weeks, I'll be really surprised if they're pullets. If they're actually full JG, I'm not sure, there is quite a bit of white on the one.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi, welcome to BYC!

Sadly I agree with the other posters.

Now I see you say "it might be mixed with Speckled Sussex"... I thought your just meant the pic, but now I realize you likely mean the birds itself, as others have noted... nothing pure Faverolle going on there.

Talk about bad gender luck... unless you are hungry.

 

[whenwood]

Both the black chicks look female to me. All of the others are definitely male; they have male specific feathering. I also doubt that any are Salmon Faverolles; I see feathered legs and beard on "Speckled Sussex #2", so that is your possible Faverolles, likely a mix or poorly bred bird as he lacks a fifth toe. Where did you get them, as I don't really think the rest are Sussex either; they are the wrong colour and one appears to have yellow legs (may be lighting).

I just got them off a random backyard farm and she said they could be mixed apparently the roster got in the some other hens ... but yea they

all have this little funny back toe thing haha

 

[chuckachucka]

I think the first black chick is female. The second black one is most likely a cockerel. The rest are male for sure.

 

[whenwood]

They fight alot! and they puff their neck feathers up