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My birds have been hit hard and fast with something with mild respiratory symptoms. The first to break with it on Monday were the roo and lead hen. By the end of the day Monday it was obvious in the whole flock. By the next day the separate brooder coop was sneezing despite bio-security...

I have my first chicks from my favaucana project. These are a cross between my lavender salmon faverolles rooster and my black Ameraucana hens. I am told the chick coloring is called melanized partridge and should feather in black and that the f2 crosses should be lavender without the brittle...

I have a couple dozen+ Salmon and Lavender Faverolles eggs from Laurel Zepp in the bator due on Mother's Day. Finger's crossed!!!

Oh this makes me so sad. I just today discovered this breed online and fell in love, only to find out they've been lost. So sad :(

I am going to be working on lavender favaucana soon. Can't wait!

I didn't see if anyone ever posted a pic for this... but I do have one old picture of a bunch eggs from the breeds I used to have. You can see the Fayoumis egg on the chart too. (This is a very old pic - I don't have most of these breeds now.)

Thanks! I know they are a project, but they still definitely have the sweet temperament of the faverolles <3 We are both looking for anyone with LF Black Faverolles to improve them if anyone hears/knows of any breeders :D

Showing off a couple of my babies :D They are right at 4 months old now. These are the only two survivors of a catastrophic incubator failure on what was going to be a very successful hatch of Laurel Zepp's shipped lavender faverolles project eggs. It is a miracle these two survived. First I had...

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Just got our first few eggs from our BBS Ameraucanas! I was shocked they started laying at only 22 weeks. Here is Danube, one of my blue girls. :)

I have a small flock of BBS Ameraucanas from William Morrow lines. Definitely purebred for many generations. Yet, I have one splash hen (my ONLY splash hen) who has a clean face - no muff or beard. I am confused how this happened. After culling many of the extra roos what I have to work with at...

I have a small flock of BBS Ameraucanas from William Morrow lines. Definitely purebred for many generations. Yet, I have one splash hen (my ONLY splash hen) who has a clean face - no muff or beard. I am confused how this happened. After culling many of the extra roos what I have to work with at...

Bless you. Yes, my new chicks are 20 weeks old and very healthy :) My husband continues the fight <3

I only buy from MG clean tested breeders which are few and far between. I buy from www.whitmorefarm.com I have BBS Ameraucanas, Delawares, and Welsummers from them. They all have proper leg color, combs, etc. I had 2 black Ameraucanas that had a little tiny bit of color bleed in their hackles...

Have you seen any signs that their immune systems are fighting anything? When mine were not noticeably symptomatic but were in fact fighting MG I was having between 1 and 3 eggs laid from the roost. At first they were mostly regular looking eggs, but then the shells got softer and softer till...