Faverolles Thread

[sandiklaws]

waiting on the pics

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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I am on the opposite side of the country, Cape Cod MA. I actually do like the shape of the first bird in your picture very much. Can't quite see the second properly... however I would gladly take them both come cool shipping weather in the fall/winter, we would just need to figure out how to get them here. I will have some birds from Dicks breeding (under a cochin hen and hatching in 2 weeks), and some from My Pet Chicken. Both Dick and Ed were interested in checking out the hatchery birds, both as a curiosity (who knows they might have something to offer) and to try to figure out who bred them. I feel with a breed like this, you have to look at much more than just pigment alone when culling. Those hens might have some smut in their beards but they might produce something totally different- and black doesn't matter in the beard if you are talking about roos

When breeding anything it is importaint to remember that Phenotype and Genotype often are NOT the same in every animal... this is a fancy way of saying what you see is not always what you are going to get. All too often novice breeders (in any type of breeding be it plants or ponies)will cull an animal that could have had exactly what was needed to fix a trait. When you work on a particular thing in a line you have to ignore all but MAJOR faults... anything that can easily be fixed in a few generations cannot be considered a major fault, and in poultry breeding color is fairly easy to fix in a few generations, providing the basic "design" (i.e. a bird still has the majority of it's coloring be correct) is still there. You cannot judge a bird useless based simply on color IMHO.

a good example of what you are talking about is one of my pens-Zeus and his lady.

mom doesn't have much for lacing or cream color on her belly color but she helped to produce Kiva!

 

[sandiklaws]

nice birds!

 

[hcammack]

Chickie'sMoma :

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I am on the opposite side of the country, Cape Cod MA. I actually do like the shape of the first bird in your picture very much. Can't quite see the second properly... however I would gladly take them both come cool shipping weather in the fall/winter, we would just need to figure out how to get them here. I will have some birds from Dicks breeding (under a cochin hen and hatching in 2 weeks), and some from My Pet Chicken. Both Dick and Ed were interested in checking out the hatchery birds, both as a curiosity (who knows they might have something to offer) and to try to figure out who bred them. I feel with a breed like this, you have to look at much more than just pigment alone when culling. Those hens might have some smut in their beards but they might produce something totally different- and black doesn't matter in the beard if you are talking about roos

When breeding anything it is importaint to remember that Phenotype and Genotype often are NOT the same in every animal... this is a fancy way of saying what you see is not always what you are going to get. All too often novice breeders (in any type of breeding be it plants or ponies)will cull an animal that could have had exactly what was needed to fix a trait. When you work on a particular thing in a line you have to ignore all but MAJOR faults... anything that can easily be fixed in a few generations cannot be considered a major fault, and in poultry breeding color is fairly easy to fix in a few generations, providing the basic "design" (i.e. a bird still has the majority of it's coloring be correct) is still there. You cannot judge a bird useless based simply on color IMHO.

a good example of what you are talking about is one of my pens-Zeus and his lady.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25630_im000400.jpg
mom doesn't have much for lacing or cream color on her belly color but she helped to produce Kiva!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25630_1kiva1-12-10.jpg​

Kiva is beautiful!

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

she is one of my favorite favs!

Mosey (Oxley roo) really loved having her in the garage coop and when i moved her outside a few weeks ago i noticed he started getting a little depressed over it.

he's gone out twice this week to spend time with all the girls out there and he's been LOVING IT!!!

he's even got some confidence to start mounting the girls without waiting for them to squat! he even started wing dancing the 14 week old Snow (one of the Hat Trick eggs i hatched). he seems to love cozying up to my 2 LF light brahmas when the evening starts to come. when i've gone to take him inside for the night both girls try to block me from grabbing him!

 

[chickenmeadow]

Here's a pic of those 2 pullets born Mar. 18, 2010 that were in post #2102 with hardly any muffs or beards when younger. They've got them now! Thanks Henry for selling me the Bantam BS Favs eggs from your old Pen #1 Hattricks line that these came from.

Have really been enjoying all of the pics of Faverolles on this thread, there are some really nice ones out there.

I was very concerned about possibly loosing Giselle (on the right), a couple of nights ago. Came home from work to find blood puddles around & her 2nd toe a mess with only a bit of toenail left. After trying several things to stop the bleeding only to start up again, it became late at night & decided to stand her in a container over night with a thick layer of StallDry in place of bedding (bentonite clay & food grade DE granules). It was the most effective at stopping the blood. It was all better the next morning & she is back in with the other youngsters. I've worked very hard on hatching & culling eggs from other sources since last year, so these 2 pure & good looking ones are xtra precious to me.

Next to decide which of my 2 roos to put them with, will post pics of them soon for comments.

 

[sandiklaws]

Nice birds!

I keep a small container of scarlet oil in my poultry kit ever since I almost lost a parrot years ago to loosing a nail and part of her toe (she got caught on her blanket- hubby used the wrong one, and was tangled upside down w/ her toe wrapped up in a thread from the blanket. She had bitten off half of her toe in her panic to get down), and the scarlet oil dried up the toe and made it heal incredibly fast... a local guy who has a ton of exotic birds told me about it. Of course I could have taken her to the vet, but this was back in 93 and avian vets were something found in Florida or Zoos.

... and Henry I only went on my rant because too many newcomers to breeding look at the "paint" as all they have to work on, thats why type is so iffy here in this country. I did not mean to step on your toes

 

[hcammack]

Chickie'sMoma :

she is one of my favorite favs!

Mosey (Oxley roo) really loved having her in the garage coop and when i moved her outside a few weeks ago i noticed he started getting a little depressed over it.

he's gone out twice this week to spend time with all the girls out there and he's been LOVING IT!!!

he's even got some confidence to start mounting the girls without waiting for them to squat! he even started wing dancing the 14 week old Snow (one of the Hat Trick eggs i hatched). he seems to love cozying up to my 2 LF light brahmas when the evening starts to come. when i've gone to take him inside for the night both girls try to block me from grabbing him!

Thats great Mosey will produce some beautiful salmons for you! Glad the big girls like him.​

 

[hcammack]

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Oh it was fine I completely agreed with your rant and you didn't step on my toes at all!

 

[hcammack]

I am excited to get my black pair of bantams and three bantam splash pullets they should be coming around the first week of june! Then I will be going in July to pick up my Salmon rooster from Dick. So excited I want to hatch again but I don't have a rooster I think I am just going to hatch every egg the black hen lays!