Faverolles Thread

[faverolles]

Thanks Dick for showing your Mahogany boyz....For pullet coloration, what would you consider a possibilty to strive for. I have a dark hen with a white beard and a second that is much darker with a dark beard.....I like them both. All 3 are from Sandhill and will separate them out when they start laying again to see which hen produces what. The Roo and the lighter hen resemble the feathersite pair.

Re Dorkings.....not alot of experience but had red Dorkings for awhile, male was huge with a few small girls....quiet and gentle....only have 4 blacks from Sandhill now....2 rosecomb & 2 single comb.

We can strive for what we want. There is no standard for the so called Mahoganies. Years ago I had made them in the bantams. I had crossed a salmon bantam male onto a bantam buff hen Faverolles. I had an aweful lot of culls. At the time I had called them BB reds, and just crossed them to salmon hens. My buddy Eddie wanted some birds at the time and I gave the culls to him. As he started breeding from them some males came out as red salmons. This is where the red replaced the black in the males because of the buff influence.
Dick

 

[sandiklaws]

Bruce, I think we have a dork in our flock

"Rose Comb" - I should've guessed! You have nice girls.....

I've only seen one set of Dorkings in real life, I believe they were from Sandhill. Huge birds, although I dont know enough to say anything about them meeting the SOP. They seemed very relaxed, a lot like the Favs. I remember the color of the male was very similar to a Fav...

"Bruce, I think we have a dork in our flock"

Thanks for the kudos, I have Dick to thank for my foundation stock in 2009. Dorkings are one of the foundation breeds for Favs, they are very similar. The parents of these came from Yellow House Farm in NH, where they are raised in open sided buildings as naturally as possible, with an eye for meat qualities and hardiness.

 

[n8ivetxn]

Wow, they really would be hardy birds, raised in an environment like NH winters......brrrr.....! You can definitely see the resemblance between the Dorking and Faverolles....


I might have asked this before, and I think Cloverleaf answered, but do any of you have good luck with SF being good broodies? I'm debating buying a 'bator, but I'd rather the girls do it themselves!

I just don't know what the chances are...

 

[sandiklaws]

Wow, they really would be hardy birds, raised in an environment like NH winters......brrrr.....! You can definitely see the resemblance between the Dorking and Faverolles....


I might have asked this before, and I think Cloverleaf answered, but do any of you have good luck with SF being good broodies? I'm debating buying a 'bator, but I'd rather the girls do it themselves!

I just don't know what the chances are...

Definitely get a bator, if you want to make progress w/ them. Broodys are fun but very unreliable... and unless you have an army of them you will not be hatching much.

Oh yeah... I have had Favs twice in my lifetime, now (since 2009) and a few decades ago and have never had one go reliably broody.

 

[n8ivetxn]

An army of broodies

Now you're talking

In reality, I have 2 French Marans that are reliable broodies, very broody. I think I would cram all the eggs they could cover under them! - It's funny, they go broody at the same time and share the chicks! Silly girls.... I kept one of their pullets, I hope she inherits the broody trait - I have work for them!

Ok, so I need a 'bator.... That's sad, this wonderful heritage bird doesn't reliably hatch their own chicks

 

[15littlem]

What Faverolles breeders have good websites, might think about getting some later on.

 

[elizmartin]

What Faverolles breeders have good websites, might think about getting some later on.

Welcome to the Faverolle thread. I have noticed many of the longtime breeders don't have websites.......but there is great information going back thru this thread....... if You let us know what state You are located in there may be folks or coming poultry shows close to see some in person........ there are many pictures on this site as well and a few others we can direct You to for variety options. I love mine, good Luck. The link below is for the Faverolle club site.....

www.faverollesfanciers.webs.com

 

[sandiklaws]

An army of broodies

Now you're talking

In reality, I have 2 French Marans that are reliable broodies, very broody. I think I would cram all the eggs they could cover under them! - It's funny, they go broody at the same time and share the chicks! Silly girls.... I kept one of their pullets, I hope she inherits the broody trait - I have work for them!

Ok, so I need a 'bator.... That's sad, this wonderful heritage bird doesn't reliably hatch their own chicks

I am hoping the Dorking infusion will help with that, and I certainly will be using some broody (I have a mini-army of bantam cochins LOL) but to make real progress it just makes more sense to hatch in as many big batches as possible. I have 3 48 egg capacity incubators and a dedicated hatcher that run from January to July, and I try to load one per week... seldom make that goal in just Favs, but I would be out there w/ pom-poms and a bullhorn if I thought it would help LOL. I hope to hatch out more then 500 this year... but only time and Mother Nature will tell me how close I will get. Won't keep more then 20 or 30 of them though.

 

[sandiklaws]

What Faverolles breeders have good websites, might think about getting some later on.

not too many have them, most of the veteran breeders are old school

 

[elizmartin]

Yes, thank you Dick for giving an example to shoot for. I've heard very little about Mahoganies and seen even less.

eliz, that's interesting - Dorkings have both comb types in the breed? Are both accepted? - Bruce was saying earlier that Sandi has quite a variety of birds, it sounds like you do too! (I suddenly feel inadequate

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Hi, i would need to check the SOP to see what they accept but are found in both rose and single comb and several color varieties. I think the black is a non sop side color that Sandhill had as a variety. I received the 2 rosecomb one year and the 2 single comb the next.

yeah, too many birds but i have those who have stolen my heart and the breed varieties that i have come to love. Its hard when you see all the wonderful qualities that so many breeds have.....besides the pet flock, I am now down to 4 varieties of Faverolles, Rosecomb Anconas (from Yellowhouse), Black Ameraucanas and a few Barnevelders.