Not sure my pullets are pullets...

[keesmom]

Yes, a good picture of the comb would be nice. It does not look like a single comb, and that is impossible in a Faverolles. I wonder if they sent you one of their "Favaucanas" instead.

 

[lilyegg]

 

[lilyegg]

I just looked at the favacaunas on MPC.com. They used to offer a wheaten fava but that's been discontinued, and although those look similar to what Sammi looked like as a little chick, she's feathering out darker than the female wheatens do. The only other fava they have is a blue, and I'm positive she's not a blue favacauna.

 

[donrae]

I'd send her pic to the hatchery and ask what on earth? Cause she's not a Faverolles. Wrong comb, wrong color. she may have a Faverolles parent, but she's not a pure bred bird. Not even poor hatchery quality, she's clearly mixed.

 

[lilyegg]

Went snooping around the Faverolle thread and this looks EXACTLY like sammi:



members said she was a poorly colored hatchery faverolle but the owner said she didn't know which hatchery she's from because she got her at a feed store.

 

[donrae]

Yeah, I had two of the same thing. Weird color, and they were also kind of failure to thrive birds....





but they both had straight combs. And your bird has a lot more of the red color all over, not the black. I know they don't really look it, but Salmon Faverolles are actually a silver based bird, not a red based bird.
I still think someone jumped the fence in your bird's case, but since it's not like you're going to use it to breed Faverolles to the SOP I guess it really doesn't matter. To me, it's more of a "keeping the hatchery honest" thing than a "I needed a pure bred bird" thing".

 

[lilyegg]

Yeah, I had two of the same thing. Weird color, and they were also kind of failure to thrive birds.... but they both had straight combs. And your bird has a lot more of the red color all over, not the black. I know they don't really look it, but Salmon Faverolles are actually a silver based bird, not a red based bird. I still think someone jumped the fence in your bird's case, but since it's not like you're going to use it to breed Faverolles to the SOP I guess it really doesn't matter. To me, it's more of a "keeping the hatchery honest" thing than a "I needed a pure bred bird" thing".

What do you mean by failure to thrive? Did both die or get sick easily? I'm really hoping mine doesn't have any health issues if that's what you mean. Definitely contacting the hatchery about this bird because this isn't a salmon Faverolle and I'd like them to tell me what it could be, then. Did you get yours from MPC?

 

[donrae]

Mine came from I think Ideal, via my local feed store.

I started with 9. Little buggers just made a habit of dying. When this pic was taken, they were about 4 months old. Just small, scrawny, never looked healthy, etc. The smaller one died about 2 weeks later, just DRT one morning. The older one I sold to a lady as a pet, with full disclosure. I'd wanted the for a sex link breeding project, but those were not genes I wanted to pass on, and with the wonky color I wasn't sure if the sex linkage would work or not.

Just for size comparison, the white bird in the second pic is a Delaware pullet who was about 2 months younger than the Faverolles.

 

[keesmom]

Went snooping around the Faverolle thread and this looks EXACTLY like sammi:



members said she was a poorly colored hatchery faverolle but the owner said she didn't know which hatchery she's from because she got her at a feed store.

Except for the comb. I've seen all sorts of Faverolles in the decade I have had them. Some good, a lot of bad. There have been some awful colored pullets coming out of the hatcheries in the past few years. Yet every one of those has had a single comb. Yours does not, and it can't happen without some sort of cross. Single combs are recessive.

It will be interesting to see what color egg she lays.