Salmon Favorelle Sexing

May I ask where you you bought yours from?

chickiesmommy said:

There are white Favorelles.

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There are other color Faverolles, but they are extremely rare. White, black, blue, buff, mahogany, and most recently lavender have existed in the US but finding them will be more difficult than the salmons. Lavender is probably the easiest to find. Laurel is working on the those, and maybe lavender salmon. Ron Patterson's flock of LF whites went to Leisha Comer in Ohio. I think she is still trying to increase their numbers and is unlikely to have any available. There are a handful of black, blue and mahogany flocks around. I think the buffs are gone.

burdboy said:

Not willing to sell yet I ordered him from cackle hatchery he's LF I don't believe cackle sells white faverolles

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No hatchery has white Faverolles. They are almost extinct in the US. Cackle does have the occasional white show up. Paso Fino Farm in TX had occasional whites pop up too. If you plan on trying to seriously breed whites you should try to find some blacks to use with him instead of salmons. Salmon tends to leak through the white, especially on the hens.

keesmom said:

There are other color Faverolles, but they are extremely rare. White, black, blue, buff, mahogany, and most recently lavender have existed in the US but finding them will be more difficult than the salmons. Lavender is probably the easiest to find. Laurel is working on the those, and maybe lavender salmon. Ron Patterson's flock of LF whites went to Leisha Comer in Ohio. I think she is still trying to increase their numbers and is unlikely to have any available. There are a handful of black, blue and mahogany flocks around. I think the buffs are gone.
No hatchery has white Faverolles. They are almost extinct in the US. Cackle does have the occasional white show up. Paso Fino Farm in TX had occasional whites pop up too. If you plan on trying to seriously breed whites you should try to find some blacks to use with him instead of salmons. Salmon tends to leak through the white, especially on the hens.

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Wow, you are a wealth of info regarding Faverolles. That's awesome!

keesmom said:

Well, I am very good at hatching males! 75% isn't uncommon. One year I got so frustrated I gave the eggs to some broody silkies instead hoping they would do better. They did, but in the wrong direction. Every egg hatched, but every chick was a cockerel. They were fired.

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I would fire them as well. Guess it isn't too much of an issue if you like eating a lot of chicken.

On the serious side though..... do you know that it is the hen throwing all the males? Switch out whichever hen is doing that if you can identify and if it's important to you.

keesmom said:

There are other color Faverolles, but they are extremely rare. White, black, blue, buff, mahogany, and most recently lavender have existed in the US but finding them will be more difficult than the salmons. Lavender is probably the easiest to find. Laurel is working on the those, and maybe lavender salmon. Ron Patterson's flock of LF whites went to Leisha Comer in Ohio. I think she is still trying to increase their numbers and is unlikely to have any available. There are a handful of black, blue and mahogany flocks around. I think the buffs are gone.
No hatchery has white Faverolles. They are almost extinct in the US. Cackle does have the occasional white show up. Paso Fino Farm in TX had occasional whites pop up too. If you plan on trying to seriously breed whites you should try to find some blacks to use with him instead of salmons. Salmon tends to leak through the white, especially on the hens.

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I just have a mixed flock of birds I let do there thing I have a lot of interest in breeding certainly breeds especially blue laced buff wyandottes I just don't have that many coops

I'm late to this but I would love to have a favorelle roo. I lost mine due to surgery complications. He was a stunningly beautiful bird. The two girls we hatched are equally majestic.

BirdieBirdie said:

I'm late to this but I would love to have a favorelle roo. I lost mine due to surgery complications. He was a stunningly beautiful bird. The two girls we hatched are equally majestic.

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Sorry for your loss.

I have two cockerels right now and they kinda look like Elvis.

EggSighted4Life said:

Sorry for your loss. 

I have two cockerels right now and they kinda look like Elvis. 

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Thanks. Pictures of your roos? Elvis?! Really?