Faverolles Thread

[Shannon's Chix]

Hi everyone! Just had to pop in. I was a bit worried about my eggs from Melissa...I was sure I did something wrong as the eggs were developing but no pips, zips or cracks on day 21. My first hatch they started pipping almost immediately at the start of lockdown! I went to candle again, thinking I would get no favs this time and I heard a bunch of peeps! I'm SOOOO releived! Now they just gotta get themselves outta there!

BTW Melissa, I've been following this thread and my eggs were packaged wonderfully, all eggs intact, and not a stinker in the bunch!

 

[hcammack]

I have decided having one breed is really boring! I love Faverolles and they will be my main breed I think I am going to keep 8 bantams and hatch a bunch to. My plan is to have a few hens of other breeds in with the bantams I have ameraucana bantams from Cloverleaf in the bator now on day 1 and I want to get blue and black mottled duccles and silver penciled rocks I think they complement the Faverolles and would look really good in a coop with them. I have come to realize that I can't undertake a big breeding project. Of course I will cull and breed for the best but I really can't expand much at all in this setup so its not worth really getting deep into it. I think I am going to keep the Leisha pair, 3 hattrick pullets, the two great bourlanger girls, and the Jeff Oxley pullet. I think the Jeff Oxley boy is going to have a shape up or ship out soon he still isn't fetile and I have had him 2 months and he is only in with two girls!

Those are my thoughts on the ever changing plan.

 

[Rock N' Faverolles]

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Thanks for the prayers. I am actually about done. I should be back stateside in about two weeks, thank God. This is my third and FINAL deployment. I was actually out of the army for two and a half years, but I was involuntarily recalled back and sent over here. Oh well. By the first part of April I am picking up birds and taking them to my parents house until my wife and I move and get a place set up. My dad has agreed to take care of them for me. Of course he's thinking maybe a couple dozen. I didn't tell him I was bringing about 350!

Surprise!!! Do you think that you will have blue salmon eggs in May still? That would be the earliest I could get them I think.

David

 

[Rock N' Faverolles]

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Good luck with all your endeavors. You'll definitely have your work cut out for you. I love the sliver penciled rocks, but so you know, they are harder to breed to standard then the Salmon Faverolles. That's my opinion anyways. There is a good article on the ABA website, which has been updated by the way, on the pencileds. You should read it. Lots of good information. Hope you can keep all these breeds while you're at college and can continue to work on them.

David

 

[Shannon's Chix]

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Hi Henry...I don't know if you saw but there are blue and black mottled d'uccles right now on ebay for the next 2 days I think. I *think her birds are non hatchery.

 

[EweSheep]

Waaaaahoooooooooo! My Orp Bantam girls starting to go broody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[EweSheep]

Rock N' Faverolles :

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Thanks for the prayers. I am actually about done. I should be back stateside in about two weeks, thank God. This is my third and FINAL deployment. I was actually out of the army for two and a half years, but I was involuntarily recalled back and sent over here. Oh well. By the first part of April I am picking up birds and taking them to my parents house until my wife and I move and get a place set up. My dad has agreed to take care of them for me. Of course he's thinking maybe a couple dozen. I didn't tell him I was bringing about 350!

Surprise!!! Do you think that you will have blue salmon eggs in May still? That would be the earliest I could get them I think.

David

Now you got your Dad into this????? Oh you ARE an enabler!

Now, come on home!!!! We want you boys home BAD!​

 

[EweSheep]

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Ship that Oxley boy OUT LOL!

 

[Freeholder]

It IS hard to stick to one breed, isn't it, Henry?!? LOL! I had to order some of those Mille Fleur Leghorns from Sand Hill (no, I'm not going to use them in my Mille Fleur Fav project!) and since I didn't really want twenty-five of them, I threw some Buckeyes into the order, too -- I've been wanting some of them ever since I started reading about them. Now I've got to build a bunch more breeding pens, LOL! (I could come up with about seven pens right now, using my chicken tractors, but I need one of them for brooding chicks that aren't under a hen.) Now I still need to get a few Speckled Sussex and Buff Orpingtons for the Mille Fleur Faverolle project....might throw some more Buckeyes in on that order, hmmm. LOL!

I'm also excited because it's beginning to look like I might actually have one of my granddaughters for the summer! They live in New Hampshire (three thousand miles away!) so I don't get to see them but once in a very great while. Juliet is nine, and I'm going to do my best to make a future goat-herd(ess) and chicken breeder out of her while she's here! Here's a picture of her (talking, LOL!) along with her older sister.

Kathleen

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

Henry, i don't mind taking the Oxley boy too!

if he's a sweet boy i don't mind giving him the time and a few sweet girls. i'm thinking one of those fav chicks i hatched IS a female-the smaller one (aka chick #2) so i wouldn't be able to put her in with the HatTrick trio you'll be sending or there might be too much close inbreeding. my bantam cochin boy has been sweet to my newer boys so i don't see much of an issue trying to incorporate another with him till the Oxley proves himself and my chicks are old enough for his own harem.