Faverolles Thread

[sandiklaws]

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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LOL, I have LF favs in salmon (and briefly this year in mahogany) and 2 deliberate Dorking crosses and my Sebastapol geese, and up until this year that was all... I got Cochins and English Orpington bantams this year for my birthday (which while unplanned for are a welcome addition), and I just started a loft of white wedding homers for my dove release business I hope to launch next year... but that is all. Duane Urch, a fairly well known breeder from MN, has more then 30 breeds of chickens by comparison.

 

[sandiklaws]

Mahogany pullet, I no longer have these, but had been told they came from Sandhill stock

the roo

just posted for those interested in the mahogany color...

 

[elizmartin]

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

Great information,,,,,,,, I think? somewhere in this thread there is a picture of your BBred Roo????? Maybe will take a day soon and go thru the thread again and document out of ordinary pictures so we can find to share. My boy still has the black but all the cream/white areas are a bright red-orange......You really have me curious now.....red instead of black would be awesome...
Are any of this bird line still around???
eliz

 

[elizmartin]

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 think they do and can reliably hatch eggs but its in their timeframe and not always our chosen location, which is where it is nice to have the incubator option so we can regulate too. I like hen raised chicks, sometimes they will accept other chicks but only in the first week or so.( i will place them under at night) Often other hens will continue to lay in the nest where a broody is setting, but after the first initial group of chicks hatch then the remainder unhatched die.

I couldn't find my turkey hen this morning. She was found in her usual nest with eggs again with a Buckeye hen sandwiched behind her in the nest. VBG, eliz

 

[elizmartin]

Mahogany pullet, I no longer have these, but had been told they came from Sandhill stock

the roo

just posted for those interested in the mahogany color...

Great Sandy,they are beautiful....... in these pictures they are just like mine.....The hen is like my younger hen with the darker beard....its a nice look. I wonder if the new owner is interested in selling eggs?

btw, the blacks continue to blossom Thank You and Dick very much ! ! !

eliz

 

[hcammack]

Here are the photos of Dick's Bantam mahogany courtesy of Dick I am sure but I got the photo from EweSheep on here. Plus BuckCreekChickens Mahoganies form Sandhill.

 

[n8ivetxn]

I think they do and can reliably hatch eggs but its in their timeframe and not always our chosen location, which is where it is nice to have the incubator option so we can regulate too. I like hen raised chicks, sometimes they will accept other chicks but only in the first week or so.( i will place them under at night) Often other hens will continue to lay in the nest where a broody is setting, but after the first initial group of chicks hatch then the remainder unhatched die.

I couldn't find my turkey hen this morning. She was found in her usual nest with eggs again with a Buckeye hen sandwiched behind her in the nest. VBG, eliz

I like hen raised chicks too, my work schedule would make it difficult to raise them in a brooder. Plus, I feel like they are healthier if she raises them and the flock accepts them easier. - Oh, yeah, and I don't get so attached to those little fluff balls

It would be nice if at least one of my pullets has a hint of broody in her

Is your turkey hen broody?! That's funny

, that poor Buckeye trying to do her business in the same nest! - I had the same problem this summer when my FMs went broody (the first time!). I have 4 nest boxes in there and all the hens want to lay in the same box, and of course it's the very same box the girls want to set in

It was hilarious to watch 2 hens sitting on eggs while one after another of the girls would scold them and finally pile in on top of them to lay...However, it was also frustrating to see that clutch steadily get bigger, knowing they would go to waste. - Initially I was afraid to reach in there and mark or remove any of them, those girls get mean when they set! After they hatched, I threw out 2 dozen eggs

The second time they sat, in September, none of that happened. Everybody used a different box to lay in.

 

[n8ivetxn]

Here are the photos of Dick's Bantam mahogany courtesy of Dick I am sure but I got the photo from EweSheep on here. Plus BuckCreekChickens Mahoganies form Sandhill.

Wow, those are really nice birds. I'm so surprised more people aren't working on this variety....

 

[comerspoultry]

So who on the East Coast is going to the Poultry Congress show, in Springfield , Mass. next month?

 

[sandiklaws]

Great Sandy,they are beautiful....... in these pictures they are just like mine.....The hen is like my younger hen with the darker beard....its a nice look. I wonder if the new owner is interested in selling eggs?

btw, the blacks continue to blossom Thank You and Dick very much ! ! !

eliz

Sadly he lost the one hen to a hawk shortly after getting her