They are here for eggs first and foremost, and as pets secondary. I don't plan on breeding at this time, so there is really no immediate need to make her go away, other than we have a finite space for chickens and I would like to add more in the future to increase the number and variety of...
We have 4 Faverolles girls. About 9 months old now. For the first 5 months or so, all of them grew at basically the same rate. But one of the girls has since quit growing (or at least, she's growing a lot slower than the others).
She seems healthy, lays eggs (I think! It's hard to tell...