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Salmon Favorelle

They're wonderfully odd-looking, with muffs, a beard, feathered feet and five toes. Salmon...

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Breed Purpose
Dual Purpose
Comb
Single
Broodiness
Average
Climate Tolerance
All Climates
Egg Productivity
Medium
Egg Size
Medium
Egg Color
Cream
Breed Temperament
Docile, funny, curious
Breed Colors/Varieties
Salmon, Blue
Breed Size
Large Fowl
APA/ABA Class
Feather Legged
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They're wonderfully odd-looking, with muffs, a beard, feathered feet and five toes. Salmon Faverolles are the most commonly available variety. Hens are beautiful, with snowy breasts and fluffy white faces: their backs are a lovely honeyed salmon color with white lacing. Roosters are huge and magnificent, parading around with a virtual rainbow of colors: iridescent black where the hens are white, burnished with bronze on their backs and wings, while their hackles and saddles the color of pale straw. Faverolles roosters are particularly calm and dignified, and make great roosters for the home flock since they are not as aggressive as some others. The hens lay medium-sized light brown or creamy eggs in prolific numbers, and they are good winter layers, too. They are shy and sweet-natured, but so docile that they tend to find themselves at the bottom of the pecking order in a mixed flock.

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Pros: Sweet, curious, friendly, good in a mixed flock
Cons: Feathered feet are difficult to keep clean and dry in winter
My little Miss Sassypants is definitely not at the bottom of the pecking order! She will take on birds much larger than she is when they run around trying to decide who’s boss. She’s friendly, curious, and a talker. I highly recommend you add a few to your flock. They are very entertaining little birds. Don’t tell the others, but she’s one of my favorites!

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Pros: Fluffy, cute and personalable!
Cons: Chicks seem dumber compared to other breeds.
I got 4 as chicks and made the mistake of putting them into the same brooder of some other breed chicks that were a few weeks older. Only 1 out of 4 survived, other 3 got stepped on and didn't make it. It was very sad.

I did noticed that unlike other breeds where the day chicks know where to go for food, the SF tend to seem lost. Eventually they figure it out, but kinda slow compared to other breeds.

She is super cute and is my favorite! SF and Ameraucanas are my favs with their fluffiness, beards and muffs!!!

I trained mine at an early age to sit on my shoulder, and at 3 months it will still chill out on my shoulder!
Purchase Price
$3-5/chick.
Purchase Date
March 2018.

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Pros: Has been a consistent layer
Cons: Noisy, flighty
I only have one, so she may be an exception, but she is very noisy (sounds almost like a goose), and is skittish. When she was younger, she was the only one that would try to peck at me when I'd go into the coop (I managed to get her to stop that). I would not get another one the next time around.

Update - she only continued to get noisier and having an urban coop, I had to rehome her so she didn't continue to annoy the neighbors.

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The bantam Blue Salmon Faveroles that I raised exclusively years ago, are still my all time favorite personality & appearance. Many of mine came out of my incubators from the main adults I acquired here & there, they were rare. I enjoyed trying to help keep that heritage breed become more known & popular. They were so friendly; docile & sweet; interactive; softly talked & cooed a lot; & cuddled like adorable kittens. I miss them, even though my current flock is fantastic. Even a few of these in a flock is fun.
 
I have only 1 in the flock. I didn't know what it was called. I feel sorry for her all by her self the others pick on her. I now can get more so she wont be alone.
 
We have 4 pullets and 1 “Brooster”. They are adorable!
We are so glad we decided to try this sweet and docile breed. They are growing beautifully, “beard ladies” and feathers covering their “beautiful” legs!
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After a previous bad experience with handed down mixed of “nut cases” of different breeds, I wasn’t planning to get any more chickens. we are so happy with SF!
 

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