Blue Favaucana

[ravensnow]

@OhZark Biddies , how are your favacanas doing? Were you right about the reddish one being a cockerel?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

@OhZark Biddies , how are your favacanas doing? Were you right about the reddish one being a cockerel?

Thanks for asking!

Yep he’s at that awkward teenage stage of his feathering, but he’s working on it.

Here they are, the chick that was the light colored one is in the middle, young mister is on the left, and the darker pullet in on the lower right

Lighter pullet

Darker pullet

Cockerel

 

[ravensnow]

That lighter colored pullet is so pretty. The cockerel is so incredibly awkward, lol. It looks like darker pullet has some random leg/foot feathering, and lighter pullet is clean legged, is that right?

How are you finding their personalities to be developing? Have either of the pullets laid? I want to get some fauvacanas when it's time to expand my flock (I have two lavender Orpingtons at the moment. I would love one to go broody and hatch chicks to grow the flock.), so I'm trying to gather as much info as possible about them. Thanks for your contribution to this thread already!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

That lighter colored pullet is so pretty. The cockerel is so incredibly awkward, lol. It looks like darker pullet has some random leg/foot feathering, and lighter pullet is clean legged, is that right?

How are you finding their personalities to be developing? Have either of the pullets laid? I want to get some fauvacanas when it's time to expand my flock (I have two lavender Orpingtons at the moment. I would love one to go broody and hatch chicks to grow the flock.), so I'm trying to gather as much info as possible about them. Thanks for your contribution to this thread already!

So they are are all fully bearded and naturally well feather footed ...

but since they were little, their buff Orpington nest mates have been fascinated with picking at their faverolle surrogate mother’s face feathers...

and so I think they have kept the feet feathers and the cockerels face well groomed...

but they should have half a dose of feathered foot genetics and would be considered moderately feather footed... all three were the same on this as chicks....

So the point is the pics lie a bit on this point...

The faverolles are quirky,as per their reputation and these three’s papa was true to that ... the biological mother of these three chicks is a splash ameraucana...

she lays nice blue eggs, but is flighty and mean... I’ve been threatening to make her into soup... but my wife likes those blue eggs ...

So with all that in mind, these three actually rate pretty well on my ‘temperament’ scale... which heavily favors relaxed, easy going birds with little to no ‘scrappiness’....

I grew up with barn yard, ‘make it or die’ chickens ... that tended the other way, but these days our set up begs for super easy going birds....

Time will tell, but so far these three fit the bill quite well...

I should point out though that their biological momma ( the ameraucana ) went broody and hatched 5 ducks... and did an outstanding job as a momma to those little mess makers... particularly in protecting them from the gang of ‘tween’ chickens...

the ducks are at my sister’s these days, but the buffs orps and blue fav’cans are all still jumpy as five legged frogs anytime she’s within three feet...

so my point is that she’s upsetting the ‘vibe’ too much to really know temperaments... but the buffs are my litmus paper, since I know them to be sweet hearts.... and they act just as skittish as the fav’cans when Mean Jean is around... at least for now...

I bought some buffs to raise with these chicks for four reasons:

• I think buffs and blues look great together, the two colors are so complimentary
• The buff are laid back... so I think that helps set a tone in temperament as they come up
• Buff colored birds can make for some interesting barnyard mixes... color wise
• I just like buff orps

Thanks again for the interest... I think fav’cans are a great cross in many ways, and hope to continue sharing the development of my three as they progress.... including the egg color... which might not happen till spring due to their May hatch date... but we’ll see?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

A few update pics

First the two pullets

The cockerel, looking darker in this pic

Showing his blue from this angle

 

[Newyorkrita]

These two Pullets are really pretty girls.

 

[Jraba1315]

Ok the skinny on favacanas, it's a faverolles roo bred to an ameracuna hen. It only breeds true the first generation so it's a one and done breed. You get a nice little bird that should by all accounts lay blue. Mostly the temperament of a faverolles but with a little more fighting spirit. If all goes well im going to have some in the spring, eggs anyway got to bake them yourself. No outrageous prices either, that's not cool.

So is an ameraucana roo and a faverolle hen not considered a fauvacaunas? Or were you just giving an example. The only reason I ask is because I’m wanting to start breeding them.

 

[Chickassan]

The cross I did was Faverolles roo over Ameraucana hen and honestly i'm not sure i'd consider her a Favacauna lol!
No idea what happened, seems pretty cut and dried but no.
This pullet is brown, only blue is her beard.
Got the feathered legs, extra toes, and blue egg gene but she's flippin brown.
So possibly im not the best person to ask since I somehow managed to screw up chicken fornication.
Unless you want a brown one, im your girl in that case.

So is an ameraucana roo and a faverolle hen not considered a fauvacaunas? Or were you just giving an example. The only reason I ask is because I’m wanting to start breeding them.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

The cross I did was Faverolles roo over Ameraucana hen and honestly i'm not sure i'd consider her a Favacauna lol!
No idea what happened, seems pretty cut and dried but no.
This pullet is brown, only blue is her beard.
Got the feathered legs, extra toes, and blue egg gene but she's flippin brown.
So possibly im not the best person to ask since I somehow managed to screw up chicken fornication.
Unless you want a brown one, im your girl in that case.

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What color was the Ameraucana hen?

If she was blue, then the offspring had only a 50% chance of being blue

 

[OhZark Biddies]

So is an ameraucana roo and a faverolle hen not considered a fauvacaunas? Or were you just giving an example. The only reason I ask is because I’m wanting to start breeding them.

Since none of the genes in question are sex linked, the cross should work either way , fav x amer, or amer x fav