So last year, I brought a high quality faverolles rooster at the spring bird sale, I paid a pretty penny for him and I named him Wash, he is a very good rooster, he is great with us, he is protective of the hens, he is stunningly pretty.
I bred him with a red sex link hen, and while I was sad that she only hatched me out four live chicks, they thrived and grew..
I loved the coloring on these chicks but it did surprise me a touch on the tuffs on the cheeks, of the chicks, three are hens and one is a young rooster.
Now the momma hen lays large dark brown eggs, and the roosters breed lays soft light brown to almost off white creamy eggs..
So imagine my surprise when his daughters started laying me light green eggs..
Hmmmm.. green eggs
Somewhere we got a little Americana in the mix.. Which means that the high price I paid for him as a purebred was certainly overpriced to say the least.
If he was listed at the sale as a crossbred, sold as a rooster only, he would have been worth five to ten dollars, listed as a purebred and being the very nice young rooster he was, he went for a solid 50, I had no issue paying that, I would have paid that for any good quality pure rooster, (of course I would like to pay less) but I am not cheap when I want the right genes.
But I was a little bit miffed that I overpaid to that degree for a crossbred roo..
Still, I like him, I like his coloring, I like the size, shape and temperament of his daughters, I am very hopeful that they will prove to be good layers and good broody momma’s
So have you ever gone to a sale, bought what you thought was X on the paperwork but turned out to be X/Y or Z when you bred them out?
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He is beautiful! The green eggs are a dead giveaway that there’s some arucana in there, though. Is it possible the breeder didn’t know? Calls into question their breeding practice, but makes the high price a little easier to swallow. If you’re going to defraud things like that you’d think they’d be a little smarter than to use arucana with such an easy tell as the green eggs. Even I know that one!
Its possible, he didn’t, he is a regular club member, that sale only take sales from club members and he did sell me a good temperament, very healthy good looking rooster, I am sure he didn’t know, but the eggs are a dead giveaway..
He is beautiful. We have discussed getting a Salmon Faverolles roo this year. Is there a chance the mom had the Auracana in her background instead of him?
I bought the mom from a hatchery as a day old chick, they don’t even have that breed at that hatchery and she looks and lays just like she should, it has to come from the male, I don’t have the breed on the farm in any of my hens or roosters so it was not possible that a different hen laid in her nest either, Nope, it came from the dad, he is the unknown ? in this breeding.
Bummer.
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There is a chance it was just a genetic throw back. Meaning that some where in the roo’s line there was an oops. So it is possible that the person that you bought it from did not know.
You’re right. He is a fine looking bird.
While I’ve never had that experience, I did end up with a chocolate maran rooster once (unintentionally). Once I realized what we had I was looking forward to some chocolate colored eggs. But of all the chicks we hatched, none ever laid a dark brown egg. Either he wasn’t getting the job down (we have another rooster), the egg color was not a genetically dominant trait, or I was mistaken about his breed. But he too is a good looking roo, so we still have him.