Faverolles Thread

[hcammack]

I am so glad everyone is persuing a diverse flock that's really what I want to get. I am getting eggs and birds from 10 diffrent sources before starting my line of bantam faverolles.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

well, i just candled the fav eggs and i am a little disappointed. the eggs from McCallum's are going to have a poor hatch, i'm down to 2/8 eggs that look like they fully developed and may make it to hatch. i think the PO scrambled them in shipment

Henry, the eggs you sent, 8/9 look like they made it through and may make it to hatch. i took the 2 remaining McCallum eggs an put them under my broody cochin who's still sitting on some eggs that should be hatching any day now.

 

[hcammack]

Chickie'sMoma :

well, i just candled the fav eggs and i am a little disappointed. the eggs from McCallum's are going to have a poor hatch, i'm down to 2/8 eggs that look like they fully developed and may make it to hatch. i think the PO scrambled them in shipment

Henry, the eggs you sent, 8/9 look like they made it through and may make it to hatch. i took the 2 remaining McCallum eggs an put them under my broody cochin who's still sitting on some eggs that should be hatching any day now.

Glad mine did so well. To bad you don't have more from mccallums. When should the ones I sent hatch?​

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

valentine's day for both sets of eggs.

i guess i need to decide on some cutesy names for my possible roos and hens!

 

[pasofinofarm]

Mahogany Faverolle pic.
Here is one of the girls I kept and put in with the Salmon flock when I sold them off last Autumn. When I put a Salmon Roo over them I just get Salmons and some dark hens but can't get another Mahogany roo... mostly it is that she and the others are just so sweet... she is a lap chicken and when they are out ranging she will find me where ever I am and follow me around.

 

[seminolewind]

Melissa, I got a dark hen like that from last spring's hatch. Very pretty.
Half of the SF eggs in my bator are actually showing development!

 

[pasofinofarm]

They take a lickin' and keep on tickin'! (I just couldn't resist) Really, I'm so glad Karen! We will just keep believing for a good hatch!

 

[hcammack]

Seminolewind hope you get a great hatch so we can have some related birds they will be so close in age to. Hope you get some.

 

[seminolewind]

Well strange things have happened before. I had a silkie go unbroody and leave an egg out overnight. I put it in the bator, and now that is the silkie who just hatched another silkie who's egg ended up in the fridge because my DH decided to collect eggs, and didn't see the x on it!

Henry, I already have 3 siblings of yours from last spring, and Chickenzoo has 3 roos from that hatch!

 

[pasofinofarm]

Don sent our niece and nephew out to collect eggs once when we had a broody setting. He warned them not to take any eggs out from under chickens... well she was evidently out taking her daily constitutional and they collected all the eggs. I ran in to grab a dozen kitchen eggs for someone at work and wound up with some of the day 16 eggs in the carton... Don called me when he saw the broody hen running around freaking out because her nest had been robbed... I grabbed the eggs and used a pen light borrowed from a doctor to 'candle' them and sure enough! Don picked them up from me at work and returned them to the chicken... most hatched fine. We now only let broodies set in cages away from everyone else.

I still have nightmares about someone cracking an egg over a skillet and a fully formed peep plopping out. Life is about learning as you go but some lessons are hard.