Faverolles Thread

[Puddin Fluff]

Anyone seen this yet? I found it on another thread. Supposedly MPC used Faverolles to create their own designer breed - the Favaucana.

http://www.mypetchicken.com/chicken-breeds/Favaucana-B152.aspx

Except for this link I can't find anything about it on MPC's site though.

I would like to see what that looks like as my Araucana pullet favors my Fav.Roo. We had been considering a hatch just out of curiosity.

Oh, I looked at the site. They used Ameraucana, & no pics.

 

[poularde]

I have two Favaucana cockerels if anyone is interested.

(They are Araucana Fav crosses.)

Everyone should have a rumpless bird.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I have two Favaucana cockerels if anyone is interested.

(They are Araucana Fav crosses.)

Everyone should have a rumpless bird.

So glad you posted pics!

I love them! Did you hatch or buy from someone? What do the girls look like?

 

[poularde]

I hatched them from my birds. I had an Araucana hen that just loved one of my Fav boys. Alas, I did not hatch any girls. The Araucana hen was a blue duckwing. Unfortunately, I lost her to a coyote a few months ago.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I hatched them from my birds. I had an Araucana hen that just loved one of my Fav boys. Alas, I did not hatch any girls. The Araucana hen was a blue duckwing. Unfortunately, I lost her to a coyote a few months ago.

Sorry to hear you lost her. My Araucana is a wild type BBR and is the main squeeze for our Fav. roo. Looks like the fav colors came through and the rumpless and smaller comb of the Araucana, Wonder if the girls would have been Salmon? I can't see tufts on the pics but with the beards they would be hard to see anyway. I also notice gray belly feathers, I would guess came from the blue duckwing coloring.

Very interesting! Makes me want to warm up the incubator!

 

[keesmom]

If anyone likes to plant forage crops for birds/livestock, Bountiful Gardens now has a section for forage seed. Purslane, chickweed, millet, radish, and seed mixes are available. They also have oil seed crops (flax, sunflower, safflower) which they will also love to eat.

 

[n8ivetxn]

If anyone likes to plant forage crops for birds/livestock, Bountiful Gardens now has a section for forage seed. Purslane, chickweed, millet, radish, and seed mixes are available. They also have oil seed crops (flax, sunflower, safflower) which they will also love to eat.

Nice, I should get some of both.... I'd like to start a small garden area around the coop this year. Dress it up a bit.... I've been thinking about maybe some salmon berry or huckleberry bushes too, but I think I have too many deer (and possibly elk) in my backyard

As it is, my blueberry and raspberry plants are confined in a deer resistant netting.

Thanks for posting!

 

[bruceha2000]

Still at -1.5 @ 9:30 here! We need a 'post todays temperature, how many eggs you got & the persevering breed that laid them thread' Whoever gets the lowest temp and most eggs wins. But what should the prize be? An insulated egg basket? Maybe an trophy of an egg made out if ice

I already lost, I didn't get one single egg today. Someones probably done it already anyway.

Okay, I did it. I did a search and couldn't find a thread about temps and egg # so I started one. I would post the link but I don't know how. I put it in the chicken behavior and egg laying forum and titled it "Today's temperature=# of eggs". So you guys could do a search and join if you like. Should be interesting to see what parts of the world are actually getting eggs right now.

Click the icon next to the bullet icon, the one that sort of looks like the earth sitting on a chain after you copy the URL from the page you want to link. Like this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/733717/todays-temperature-of-eggs

Everyone should have a rumpless bird.

I don't know; they just don't look like chickens (to me) when they don't have tails.

If anyone likes to plant forage crops for birds/livestock, Bountiful Gardens now has a section for forage seed. Purslane, chickweed, millet, radish, and seed mixes are available. They also have oil seed crops (flax, sunflower, safflower) which they will also love to eat.

Hey, great idea! Got just the place close to the barn. All I have to do is pull out all of the stinging nettle. Anyone want to come help?

Bruce

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Click the icon next to the bullet icon, the one that sort of looks like the earth sitting on a chain after you copy the URL from the page you want to link. Like this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/733717/todays-temperature-of-eggs


I don't know; they just don't look like chickens (to me) when they don't have tails.



Hey, great idea! Got just the place close to the barn. All I have to do is pull out all of the stinging nettle. Anyone want to come help?

Bruce

Thanks for the tip on adding the link Bruce. My problem is I start typing before I have copied the link so when I navigate away to copy it, I have retype anything I had written before because it is gone when I get back to my reply! There should be a way to search for the link from the reply box.

As far as the rumpless, I don't know what it is but there is just something about the word "rumpless". Makes my daughter giggle everytime she says it and I think all the birds that are rumpless are adorable!

Anyone have problems with frostbite with the cold temps on the Roos big combs? So far so good here but we haven't had any super bad days.

 

[bruceha2000]

My problem is I start typing before I have copied the link so when I navigate away to copy it, I have retype anything I had written before because it is gone when I get back to my reply! There should be a way to search for the link from the reply box.

I'm sure there are other setups (I'm using Firefox), but with Windows you can Ctrl-left mouse button and open in a new tab, Command-left mouse on a Mac. I have the "click the mouse scroll wheel" set to open in a new tab on my Mac. So to find your new thread, I "scroll wheel" clicked on the Advanced Search link under the search box at the top of the page so I could find your new thread then copied the command-C copied the URL. That left the page with the reply open in the original tab.

Bruce