I just recieved a dozen Salmon Faverolle eggs in the mail last week. They're in the 'bator and I'm hoping for at least 4 (never shipped before). I plan to start breeding them once I can get a roo from another line.
Mine were also shipped-I had a great success rate! Out of 31, 17 hatched. I only have a couple that ended up clear, 4 that died during or right after hatch, a couple eggs that went missing? The rest were all growing but died sometime in the late incubation period. I ended up with 13 total. The reason I didnt have a higher hatch/live chick rate was more due to the extreme rain and a coop floor leak, as well as some new moms.I just recieved a dozen Salmon Faverolle eggs in the mail last week. They're in the 'bator and I'm hoping for at least 4 (never shipped before). I plan to start breeding them once I can get a roo from another line.
On roosters, I learned a ton by reading the thread here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/821717/how-to-raise-a-rooster
If you are looking to sex your Faverolles, most of the folks on this thread are crazy good at being able to tell by a photo. Plus we love to see photos of faverolles!
it is my first time with a male I didn't 100% trust. I don't have that feeling around any wyandottes, but this guy has taught me to be a little wary.
thank you
that is very reassuring... their gentleness is what attracted me in the first place.it's hard to describe, but he gets this look, where he zones out for a minute and almost becomes a psycho Mr Hyde chicken for a few seconds and then it turns off. it's like he's a few cards short of a full deck. I dunno, it's not...normal.
any thoughts on her birds, or any other breeders (with chicks) around the pacific NW area?I don't think holding them a lot is really necessary because that isn't what you will do to them as adults. eating out of the hand is the main thing I try to get mine to be comfortable with, I use oatmeal when they are chicks and scratch when they are adults. mostly as adults I just throw it on the ground. but I find that if they aren't afraid to eat out of your hand as adults, they just fear you less in general moving around in the run. you also can't use the "hand full of feed, snatch and grab" trick too often, or no one will ever trust you again. basically just be cool, calm, not too grabby. always move very slowly and they won't be startled. I don't make eye contact with roosters on the ground, I just walk through them and they avoid me. never let any rooster walk toward you advancingly, without walking him backward. if he charges again, walk him back again. never let him have the last word so to speak.
They are all so adorable! I loved all the photos
This clutch is a lot calmer and sweet ...I am thinking maybe as there are more girls? I am thinking 1 is a boy and 2,3,4 are girls?
My last clutch that are being raised by "The Fosters" co parents-I will try and take pics tomorrow. I am thinking 2-3 girls there hopefully.
I also want to get better pics of my coop/run these make it look horrible! We just re painted the barn and took part of the bird netting down that covers the run so its a work in progress. This weekend is paint touch up, chicken wire around the base of the run to keep the chicks in, and replace the netting over the run. If we have time we are extending the run area and closing off part of the existing (20 x 40?) to re seed it.
