Salmon Favorelles - are these both pullets?

[~KH~]

I checked their wing feathering at 2 weeks and there was no black, so I didn't think there was any chance either was a roo, but want to double check....They are 7 weeks old.

 

[chicks are life]

Could we get a close up off the hackle and saddle feathers?

 

[~KH~]

Could we get a close up off the hackle and saddle feathers?

Give me a bit and I'll have hubby help me wrangle them. They are the most skittish of my bunch.

 

[chicks are life]

Okay

 

[junebuggena]

Both pullets. One is just a bit smutty.
Pictures of hackle and saddle feathers are kind of useless at 7 weeks of age. Male specific feathering doesn't begin to develop until about 10 weeks, and can take several more weeks to be obvious.

 

[chicks are life]

But some quicker feathers breeds have hackle and saddle feathers at a younger age and I was asking for a closeup in general to we if I could see male coloring.

 

[junebuggena]

But some quicker feathers breeds have hackle and saddle feathers at a younger age and I was asking for a closeup in general to we if I could see male coloring.

Male Faverolle coloring is much different than these two. That "salmon" color across the body and the wheaten chest are female specific. Males are

 

[~KH~]

Thanks for the replies! Here are photos of their backs. I had 3 Easter Eggers clamoring to be picked up and the 2 SF were like "Let me go!"

 

[chicks are life]

Yup defiantly female.

I couldnt really tell in the pics is why I asked four a whole body pic

 

[~KH~]

Yup defiantly female.

I couldnt really tell in the pics is why I asked four a whole body pic

Thanks