Faverolles Thread

[Amelia Egghart]

Eeek! The little Jerk has calmed down into the middle spot between week 1 and week 2. It's two weeks old today and the first cloudy day of its little life. It's been running and scampering and "flying" and I finally got it as it settled in for a nap:

LOL that face! It's not huddled, it just did that as I took the picture. But talk about a personality shift. It seems to be much happier with the sussex at the top of the order.

How are Faverolles with other birds? This one likes the mirror and a stuffed toy we put in the brooder that's the same color it is. The other birds like those objects as well but the faverolle seems more drawn to them, especially the toy :-/ I'm wondering if I just have too few birds in the brooder...


...how chicken math can strike....

 

[harrellkd]

I just ordered a dozen LF Salmon Faverolle hatching eggs and I am SO excited! I have never had Faverolles before!!! EKKKKKK! Anyone have SOP for this breed, or examples of show quality? Thanks!!

 

[csaylorchickens]

I just ordered a dozen LF Salmon Faverolle hatching eggs and I am SO excited! I have never had Faverolles before!!! EKKKKKK! Anyone have SOP for this breed, or examples of show quality? Thanks!!

Haha they are beautiful and wonderful mostly docile highly broody

 

[csaylorchickens]

Show quality? I do not know

 

[harrellkd]

Show quality? I do not know

Thanks! I just want to make sure that whatever I breed is really nice, high quality, and meets the breed standards

 

[abbevilleoz]

How early can you distinguish gender on SF chicks?

 

[Puddin Fluff]

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Once the feathers start coming in they are distinctly different colors. Esp. when the chest feathers come in. Girls are white on the chest, boys are black. If you have well threaded lines,and know what you are looking for, you can tell with the wing feathers at a few days old..

 

[Amelia Egghart]

How early can you distinguish gender on SF chicks?

my hatchery quality (she's still pretty!!) SF has white chest feathers coming in at 15 days old and she had white foot feathering poking out at 13 days, so you can tell early!

I'm so excited to see how she'll feather out

 

[csaylorchickens]

They are pretty birds the roosters are gorgeous one day when I have property that will allow a rooster I'm getting a faverolle rooster I'll ha e my James Bond with with dames lol

 

[Amelia Egghart]

I think I have quite the special little girl here. She just had herself a dust bath...in a bowl of live mealworms.

Sigh.

At least she's entertaining.

Time to pull wriggling mealworms out of the carpet.