Sexable Faverolles?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Are Salmon Faverolles sexable at hatching? I had four hatch out yesterday with more talking & pipping now...but I have two VERY yellow babies & two that are yellow with bluish-dark on their backs...are those males?

 

[cthrash1]

I have two male and three female and at two weeks I can tell the sexes...One of the females I could tell as soon as they arrived. Was supposed to get only one male but MMM threw in an extra for free.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

So are the females the all yellows & the males the ones with the colors on their backs?

 

[hcammack]

When they start getting wing feather you can do a fairly accurate sexing job although my two hens tricked me by getting a few dark feather first ! Males should have black and brown feather and females should be light tan w/ only a few dark wing feathers. These are my favorite breed! Maybe you got some blue salmon's that hatched also are maybe some sport.

Henry

 

[hcammack]

OH AND POST PICS

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Yeah, I'll see what I can do about pics. It's just a huge chore to get pics because we have no internet at home. So I have download all of my pics to our computer, then burn them all to a CD and then take them to work & upload them onto photobucket. Blah. LOL

I'm hoping not--these are supposed to be just plain ol' Faverolles. I saw pics of the parent birds & they didn't look blue or off-colored....

 

[muffi]

All of my faverolles hatched out all yellow. Now that they are 2 weeks, I can finally tell the males and females apart. I really couldn't tell before then.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Favs/BRKFaverolles.html

Faverolles chick pictures, including male and female wing colors, are at the bottom of this page. Aren't they just the cutest, with their tiny little muffs? I love those little chubby "cheeks."

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Yes, they sure are cute! Thanks for the link--guess I'll have to wait another few days!