Faverolles Thread

[chickenmeadow]

Since Easter is coming up soon, I thought you'd enjoy a festive picture. Here's one of my March hatches, 3/18/10; these 7 chicks are 2 wks old on April 1st. The eggs were shipped by hcammack in Maryland, thanks. I promissed Henry some pics of these great, fluffy & strong chicks. As you know, with the Faverolles you can sex them at around 2 wks of age, so I separated them in 2 groups by my guess.

4 Bantam Blue Salmon Faverolles pullets

3 Bantam Blue Salmon Faverolles cockerels

 

[thechickonthehill]

save the favs - what adorable pictures! The chicks look great! I love how sturdy looking Fav chicks are. I want a hen that lays eggs like the ones in your pic.

seminolewind: chickonthehill, I see you have 2 of those dark ones who are sending mixed signals about gender. If you scroll further up, there's some pics of mine. My whites had some salmon shading in them so I just call them splashes, LOL. Here's a pic of my salmon, she's almost 4 weeks old in this picture

You are so right! One of the dark ones I'm sure is a cockerel but the second dark one makes me change my mind from one day to the next. I think the white pullets' coloring is really interesting - yours appear to have some speckling on the breast that mine aren't showing. Mine have salmon feathering just starting to come in around their combs and their breast feathers seem to be turning to a pale salmon color. In the pics, it also looks like your pullets have some gray/blue undertones? Mine do not have that either. It will be really interesting to see how they turn out. I would love to see pics of yours again in a few weeks.

I just love these babies - thank you, Melissa! Now I just have to decide who to keep.

 

[seminolewind]

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You are so right! One of the dark ones I'm sure is a cockerel but the second dark one makes me change my mind from one day to the next. I think the white pullets' coloring is really interesting - yours appear to have some speckling on the breast that mine aren't showing. Mine have salmon feathering just starting to come in around their combs and their breast feathers seem to be turning to a pale salmon color. In the pics, it also looks like your pullets have some gray/blue undertones? Mine do not have that either. It will be really interesting to see how they turn out. I would love to see pics of yours again in a few weeks.

I just love these babies - thank you, Melissa! Now I just have to decide who to keep.

No problem-I'll post pics. Melissa's birds are as sweet as can be. My roo hadn't paid any attention to them as he had too many girls, so to this day they squat for me, LOL Now I'm growing them a few boys!

 

[hcammack]

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That is an amazing result! How many hens do you have? I am saving eggs from my best three and I have been able to tell their eggs apart from my other 6 hens because of color and size. Just wondering if you only have two hens I would imagine not but just wondering. I am setting Faverolles and D'anvers this weekend and I have Silver Penciled Rock bantams and D'uccles eggs hatching this weekend. Can you tell I like bearded birds

Henry

 

[hcammack]

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Glad you got a good mix of boys and girls hope you get some really awsome girls for your boys.

Henry

 

[pasofinofarm]

Chicken on the hill... the dark ones are Salmon Cockerels. The white ones are either true white... in which case they will stay white and can be very hard to sex before maturity or if they are sports they may get some light tan color but will not actually 'turn' salmon... they will look like this when grown:

A pretty bird but not show quality because of the tint color. These can be bred together for true whites.

Siminolewind Karen.... I have never seen the freckles before... wonder if those are coming from the new Blue Salmon Roo... he is the only new thing in the pen.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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So if you can breed the sports together to get true whites, you could also leave them in with Salmons, like you would the true whites right? I ended up with 2 that I'm not sure if they are white or sports yet, I think I have a pair...

Are the sports going to keep throwing more sports, or will they throw a recessive white if my other birds carry it too?

Thanks!!

 

[pasofinofarm]

I am using the terms sport and recessive pretty much interchangably.. and really they are different I believe... sport ( spontaneous mutation) is unexpected offspring that is unexpected based on the genetic makeup of the parents(like a polled calf popping up from two horned bovine parents)... recessive is a gene that is not expressed but when doubled from both parents may express itself...somebody smarter than me could give us the percentages I think... My line carries white recessives... Even when breeding Salmon to Salmon I may get some white chicks because at least some of my flock (and my rooster) carries white. These chicks are not actually sports although I (and lots of others) call them that. Many (most?) breeders of LF SF are seeing whites crop up. I have chosen to breed them together to get a white line of Faverolles. Although there are other white Favs I have many other issues worked out of my birds and so chose to go about getting whites this way (which is how it has been done in every line). After a couple of generations they breed true white without the birds that will eventually become tan.

My plan is to set up breeding pens in the fall and separate everybody out... until then they are breeding together. So chicks from me can be Salmon, Blue Salmon, White sports, or true whites. I find them all beautiful...

When you ask if you can breed them together... what is it you plan to do with the offspring?

Edited... am I the only one who only sees stupid mistakes after hitting post?

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Thank you Melissa - that is very helpful info. I wasn't sure about the dark ones as they are soooo much darker than my hatchery roo was when I got him. So if I breed a Salmon to one of the "sports" I could still get Salmon? or do you mean cross a sport with a sport? And if I breed one of the whites to a "sport" I would probably get some pure whites? And would I be correct in saying that I could pen Salmon, White and the sports together for breeding purposes and get some of any/all of those colors? I've been calling the pullets that are not quite white "Psuedo Salmons".

My pure whites are most definitely cockerels so I have 2 white and 2 salmon cockerels and 2 PS pullets (they both have that faint salmon tint with darker feathers emerging around their combs). Better two pullets than no pullets! And at least I have some selection when choosing a roo to breed from.

 

[henney penny]

I`m so excited I got two salmon faverolles chicks yesterday,they are so cute.I just love those faces.