Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

They sound a lot like some of my Easter-eggers, to be honest. Super-sweet, on the small side, let themselves get pushed around... Poor 8 year old Chickie is the smallest (height-wise, definitely not weight-wise) of the EEs and she's always the one that new pullets choose to first assert their dominance over. Miss Mako, Wynne, and Maggie have let my young speckled Sussex do the same to them over the past few months, too. But I digress.

My girlies have a 50x100 foot run and will soon have an addition built onto their coop, so I don't think room is an issue. I dunno if 32 birds is considered a big flock or not? (Will be 40 even once this spring's chicks grow up and integrate.) I suppose I could try some of these girls later on. Worst thing that could happen is I'll 'have' to build a new coop to keep them separate from the other girls.

Thank you both for your responses. Gives me something to think about.

 

[Nambroth]

Coho and Derp do okay most of the time, but their combs are flecked with little scabs from the pecks they get from the others. I also think that Coho's previous health problems were because she is sometimes stressed by the others. I do all that I can to alleviate it, and she is doing really good right now.
It all really depends. I have observed that Faverolles are often very peaceful too. They just don't seem to try to get into squabbles or defend their rank!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Aw. With how pushy my barred Rocks are, maybe I should just plan for a separate Faverolles coop to begin with, then. My BRs are total dolls with me, but stand back if you have feathers! :/ Oh, well.

 

[artsyrobin]

yeah, my barred rock is a bossy thing, i plan on a fav coop and run seperate from the others someday- but need to do some saving to do it how i want...

my mary is from breeding stock, not hatchery, and i really think in general they are just super laid back, my giant cochin is that way too, just a trait of the breed

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Is it true that they get picked on a lot in a mixed flock? I've heard that and I'm kinda afraid to get Faverolles now. My current girls can be so mean to each other. :/

I used to have a Faverolle. She was nasty! She would pick the whole flock's feathers out! She definitely wasn't bullied! And she was in a mixed flock with some snotty bantams and an Orp. We ended up giving her to a farm. We did warn them of her bad habit. She was super unfriendly too. Looks like I got a dud. :/

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

yeah, my barred rock is a bossy thing

Imagine that times 6. And then they all want to be on my lap at the same time.

Yeah, I'm not exactly raking in the dough at the moment, either. I will just have to live vicariously through Derp and friends (and everyone else's Faverolles) until I can afford a new coop.


Sorry about your bad luck with your Faverolles, shadow rabbit. I guess like with every breed, there's all kinds of personality types. :/ I read all the time about sweet, cuddly Wyandottes and wonder how I managed to get the only three nasty-mean human shy ones.

 

[Suzierd]

and just because of derp- i have this lovely lady!

She is so cute! What color of eggs does she lay? I have a hen that came to my house from the neighbors, he has like 150 chickens and she left that flock and won't go back she hangs out outside my chicken run and sleeps right on the wood part of the fence as close as she can get to the coop even in the pouring rain, so I pick her up off the fence and put her in the hay room so she can sleep comfortable and safe. She wouldn't last long on the fence with no protection a lot of coons roam around here. Anyway she has tuffs like your girl and beard I was wondering if she's a EE or favorolle. She layed me two big green eggs in the hay. And she is pretty vocal.

 

[AccentOnHakes]

She is so cute! What color of eggs does she lay? I have a hen that came to my house from the neighbors, he has like 150 chickens and she left that flock and won't go back she hangs out outside my chicken run and sleeps right on the wood part of the fence as close as she can get to the coop even in the pouring rain, so I pick her up off the fence and put her in the hay room so she can sleep comfortable and safe. She wouldn't last long on the fence with no protection a lot of coons roam around here. Anyway she has tuffs like your girl and beard I was wondering if she's a EE or favorolle. She layed me two big green eggs in the hay. And she is pretty vocal.

A Favorolle should lay light cream eggs; you've got yourself an EE.

 

[artsyrobin]

yep- the egg color is a give away, wonder if she could be integrated into your flock? She sounds sweet

 

[Suzierd]

Ok thank you. I thought she was a EE. She real skitish but she is getting better, I have to wait till its real dark out to pick her up. . I thought about adding her to the flock, my paint Silkie Roo needs a girl friend

she might beat him up tho. I'm afraid to free range him we have a lot of hawks, they don't seem to be going after the neighbors chickens but their bigger. I bought a large dog house I'm going to fix up for a little coop for her to sleep in. Then I just need to get one of those solar chicken doors that will close her in at night and let her out in the morning. I need it soon because in a few weeks I'm going to be gone over night and I'm so worried about her.