Faverolles Thread

[n8ivetxn]

I don't show - mainly due to time constraints with my job, but this is also the first season I've had really good birds. I'm working toward showing, it's just a timing thing.....

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I don't show - mainly due to time constraints with my job, but this is also the first season I've had really good birds. I'm working toward showing, it's just a timing thing.....

Yeah, I know what you mean. I hope you get to show sometime though!

 

[n8ivetxn]

The move last night was successful, today all 3 girls were still piled up in the nest box. They have a small coop all to themselves....

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

The move last night was successful, today all 3 girls were still piled up in the nest box. They have a small coop all to themselves....

Good, glad it worked out for you!

 

[LeBlackbird]

Ugh, that's convincing... Until I took another look at "her" and noticed her breast is growing in Black. She can't possibly be gender-switching on me can she? I don't really mind either way, although I don't know where I'm going to house it if it turns Cockerel

 

[n8ivetxn]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I hope you get to show sometime though!

You too! - I might put in for a slot at the local fair in August, just an exhibit, if nothing else.... I could also exhibit my Barbados Blackbelly hair sheep, combining the 2 would make it worth my time and energy.

Another direction I wanted to go was to supply quality birds to FFA and 4H youngsters.

I've said in the past if I ever had a Fav hen that went broody, I would try to incorporate the broodiness trait in my flock. Now that I know who she is, in the future I can use my 2 different cockerels over her and collect those eggs for a hatch.

 

[n8ivetxn]

Ugh, that's convincing... Until I took another look at "her" and noticed her breast is growing in Black. She can't possibly be gender-switching on me can she? I don't really mind either way, although I don't know where I'm going to house it if it turns Cockerel

I think it's a pullet, maybe she just has a little "smut" in the front.......

 

[keesmom]

So we had the first nice spring day today. You'd think that would put the hens in a good mood.

In one pen two pullets went from being nice to squabbling, resulting in some bloody combs. Didn't last long, and now they're best buddies again.

In the other pen I checked for eggs at noon. All was fine. Went back an hour later to find a mess. One younger hen hiding with a torn and bloody comb, one older hen with one eye swollen shut, the other going that way fast, and blood all over her comb and beard. I've never had hens fight like this before! My males never fight that much. Ugh, hopefully the older one will recover.

 

[keesmom]

In one pen two pullets went from being nice to squabbling, resulting in some bloody combs. Didn't last long, and now they're best buddies again.

I thought these 2 were fighting, since they were the only bloodied ones. Turns out they're attacking the male in with them.

The younger hen in the other coop started in on my other older hens this morning, so she's been given the boot to another run. What is it with the cranky hens?

 

[n8ivetxn]

Wow! Maybe spring hormones are running a little on the high side.....my girls were out over the weekend and I noticed 2 or 3 of them squabbling and chasing each other around several times that day. Fortunately nobody got hurt, but I did keep an eye on them when I saw them chasing and pecking....

Crazy birds