Faverolles Thread

[Inkheart]

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Thank you! What a great pic! To you and yours too!

 

[bluebird]

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awwww...nice Christmas card!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAVE A HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

 

[bluebird]

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Howdy and welcome to the Fav thread!

 

[Favulous]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

A very merry Christmas to you all, and a happy and healthy New Year to you and to those that eat your layer pellets!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Ok, this question has probably been asked many time but I can not find any discussions on it. What is the temperament of the Faverolles roosters? We have a 2 1/2 year old daugher that loves to feed our chickens and I am trying to find a few LF breeds that do not have overly aggressive roosters. Would this be a good breed for her?

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

the roosters are not know for aggression. usually very calm but alert. i have had a few that were skittish but never attacked me or the other birds. one of my roos used to allow me to pick him up and carry him around with no fuss and the girls never gave him any trouble about it. he would also not worry if i tried touching any of the girls. if the girls made any loud fussing he would come running to see what it was about but would just watch if it wasn't a predator.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Exactly what Chickie'sMoma said, BUT I would also add that any time you have a toddler eye-to-eye with any rooster, use extreme caution. A toddlers quick, often jerky movements can be easily misinterpreted by a rooster, and a quick peck to the eye would be tragic.

That being said, I have found Faverolles males to be extremely docile, BUT temperament is something that is bred for, just like when you breed dogs. Aggressive roosters make aggressive offspring, so make sure that whatever rooster you end up with comes from a father who is also docile and even tempered.

The only other breed of LF rooster that I have ever been able to fully trust are TRUE Ameraucanas (not EEs).

I've had EEs, Plymouth Rocks, and Chanteclers all turn nasty on me.

 

[Favulous]

Compared to my son's leghorn guy and my friend's light sussex roo, Napolean is very easy to get along with.

Do you free range or keep them in coops?

Is your daughter ever with them unsupervised?

Napolean is watchful of me and tends to keep between me and the girls as I walk around, but I am not sure if this is just because he knows I usually have some spinach for them in my pocket.

He is very partial to a snack.

After saying that, he did get a tap with the feed bucket I was holding once. I was on my hands and knees cleaning out the shed and he started to get agitated.

Actually, when my kids were young, they had more problems from brood hens flying at them than roosters.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I am guessing that at least one of your girls is a blue salmon. Look at the primary wing feathers, if they have a black edging that's a salmon, if it's more of a slate gray, that's a blue salmon.

If you breed a salmon to a blue salmon, you should get (and this is IF the birds read the genetics book) 50% salmon and 50% blue salmon offspring. You are probably getting some blue salmon female offspring as well, it's just not as obvious as the males.

 

[Favulous]

Ahhh, just what I wanted to know!

The more I read about genetics, the more confused I get...maybe I should give the internet in the coop, so they can read it!

In my case I don't think it is as simple as having a blue salmon hen. Our original stock came from a breeder who was working on getting all the colours.

Here in Australia, we have a very small gene pool. The breeder was one of the very few people with eggs when we started and I suspect that the eggs we bought came out of her breeding to blue program.

The male and the hens show no signs of blue, but there definitely seems to be so genetic material coming through.