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    10 Plus Standard Salmon Faverolles Hatching eggs

    Could you do an order of 6+?
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    Faverolles Thread

    Don't give up hope, I've had a hen that dark from hatchery stock. We called her Duck as in Ugly Duckling.
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    Faverolles Thread

    Oh My! Those are some beautiful birds!
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    Faverolles Thread

    I have 7 eggs in the incubator now and decided to test this theory with my Fav's. 12 days to go, so hopefully I get all girls.
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    Faverolles Thread

    I raise mine as true "dual purpose". We send all the excess roo's to freezer camp. As for caponizing, I read all about it and tried it ONCE, I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I stitched him back up and he lived until he crowed...then he went to freezer camp. As for size, since they go...
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    Faverolles Thread

    Here's a "Nature vs. Nurture" with my Fav's. I had a Fav hatch a dozen eggs and I had an Australorp who was on day 6 of being broody. I didn't want/need any additional chicks at that point so that night I swiped 2 Fav chicks and put under the Australorp. The Australorp was my top hen and the Fav...
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    4 wk old Salmon Faverolle mix.....pullet or cockerel?

    Looks like you've found your answer of Silver Gray Dorking pullet cross, but definitely not with a Faverolles. If it were a Fav cross, it would have slightly feathered legs by two weeks. As for eggs...usually you end up with the blue/green if dad was indeed an Ameraucana. Dorkings are fabulous...
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    Faverolles Bred back to Dorking project

    I am looking forward to following the outcome of this experiment. I have a pair of Dorkings and a trio of Faverolles (7 wk old hatchery chicks) and was considering crossbreeding at some point just because they are both supposed to be such good meat birds. I have a good bit of time before that...
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