Salmon Faverolle Sexing. Please tell me I don't have 7 cockerel's

[ColtHandorf]

I've bred Salmon Faverolles in the past. Mine were easily sexed as I didn't have issues with smutty/dark females. I'd believe the breeder bred for show after I saw some adult pictures of their breeding stock.

In the meantime, I'd give it a couple of weeks. You should be able to tell when the breast feathers come in. Cockerels will be dark and pullets will be lighter. You'd have very bad luck indeed to have dark wings and a chest and it be a pullet. Although I have seen it. @Overo Mare enjoys crushing people's dreams, one cockerel at a time. Perhaps she would like to rain on the parade?

 

[Painted Calls]

I've bred Salmon Faverolles in the past. Mine were easily sexed as I didn't have issues with smutty/dark females. I'd believe the breeder bred for show after I saw some adult pictures of their breeding stock.

In the meantime, I'd give it a couple of weeks. You should be able to tell when the breast feathers come in. Cockerels will be dark and pullets will be lighter. You'd have very bad luck indeed to have dark wings and a chest and it be a pullet. Although I have seen it. @Overo Mare enjoys crushing people's dreams, one cockerel at a time. Perhaps she would like to rain on the parade?

I'll reserve judgement until I see those breast feathers.

Totally agree with the breeder theory though.

 

[obsidian73]

Okay so for some updated photos. Not the best but was here they are at 18 days (New years babies).

There are 5 that are definitively a light brown on all of their wings. There are 2 that are distinctly have much more black on them. Their chest feathers aren't in yet but I am starting to seem some pin feathers starting, so we will see what next week shows us.

 

[Deenok]

I’d say only the third one is a roo. The others have nice even and rounded flight feather tips and the third one is more jagged and uneven. Can’t be 100 percent but I bet I’m right.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I’d say only the third one is a roo. The others have nice even and rounded flight feather tips and the third one is more jagged and uneven. Can’t be 100 percent but I bet I’m right.

You can’t feather sex these.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Pattern sex, yes.

 

[obsidian73]

Pattern sex, yes.

What do you mean by pattern sex?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

What do you mean by pattern sex?

You can tell by the pattern. Males will have black chest feathers and females with have salmon.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Salmon Faverolles are sexually dimorphic. She means they can be visually sexed by the feather pattern (coloration) coming in, but not by their wing feather length or shape.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I’m no expert on any but esp not your breed. At 2 weeks it kinda hard to tell on any of them I thought, unless you’re the rear end inspector at the hatchery.

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