Faverolles Thread

[ashandvine]

 

[lungewhipqueen]

With EVERYTHING to learn about Faverolles, can you all tell me if this is a good example of 4th and 5th toes?

 

[mame1616]

Thanks so much for the detailed response! It was a big help!
I also found a UK faverolles society which had the breed standards on. When I bought my girls as 3 week old chicks I didn't expect them to look so wonderful, but Luna and Aurora are great looking girls IMO, Willow is too but she has flecks of black in her neck feathers which I understand isn't wanted (also the smallest). I'm going to have to go and count the points on their combs later and check their feet haha! They're no where near fully grown yet though so not sure if they'll have the right body shape.

I'll have to look up some poultry shows and see what they're like, I wanted to go to one over the summer to chat to some faverolles breeders/showers but none of the shows were showing them this year.

Another thing about illnesses is I understand that to show birds they should be vaccinated, but it seems incredibly hard to get birds vaccinated over here as they only come in batches of 1000. I asked the vet but I have yet to find a poultry vet who knows about vaccinations.

Thanks again!

I don't know what the situation is over there, but over here, vaccinations aren't necessarily the panacea they are sometimes thought to be, IMHO. (Other than, perhaps, the day-old Marek's vaccine.) A lot of people don't realize that, with some vaccinations, the bird can shed skin cells that can migrate to other birds, thereby infecting them with the disease, even though the bird that shed them is immune. There was a huge outbreak a few years ago because someone vaccinated their bird, which then spread the disease to many others. Those birds then took the disease home to their flocks, and devastated them. Be very careful, and talk to a lot of people before you vaccinate.

Don't dismiss that hen with the black flecks. If she shows good type as an adult, she can be used to produce good cockerels, who need the black.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

With EVERYTHING to learn about Faverolles, can you all tell me if this is a good example of 4th and 5th toes?

Those toes are excellent

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Cloverleaf Farm - your article popped up on the side so I was just having a read and drooling over how beautiful all your birds are!

Thank you!

 

[lilypad]

I don't know what the situation is over there, but over here, vaccinations aren't necessarily the panacea they are sometimes thought to be, IMHO. (Other than, perhaps, the day-old Marek's vaccine.) A lot of people don't realize that, with some vaccinations, the bird can shed skin cells that can migrate to other birds, thereby infecting them with the disease, even though the bird that shed them is immune. There was a huge outbreak a few years ago because someone vaccinated their bird, which then spread the disease to many others. Those birds then took the disease home to their flocks, and devastated them. Be very careful, and talk to a lot of people before you vaccinate.

Don't dismiss that hen with the black flecks. If she shows good type as an adult, she can be used to produce good cockerels, who need the black.

Woah I didn't know all that! Over here most backyard chicken keepers don't vaccinate unless the breeder they've got their chickens from vaccinates their chickens. But I thought I read that chickens should have all their vaccinations if they were to be shown, or is that not true?

I can't breed chicken's where I live (no cockerels), but when I was inspecting her yesterday, she seems to have 7 points to her comb and also her 4th and 5th toe are pretty much joined. She's not a great example of a fav hahah! She's a cutie though

 

[lilypad]

I got some photos of the "chicks" yesterday (at 18 weeks I should stop calling them chicks, LOL)
They're growing so fast! They're now taller than my Orp Bantam, about the same size as my Goldtop.

Luna


Aurora


Willow

 

[queenchick16]

Faverolles and heat - just how much do I have to worry about our girls this summer?

I ask because although technically we are still in winter its a gorgeous warm day outside today at 21c and the bantams are fine but some of the favs are already sitting with their mouths open like chickens do when hot. Just wondering if they are doing this at 21c what will happen when summer hits and we are in mid to high 30's? We even had some 40+ days last year though they were record hot days.

Morning Appps, Although I don't have a great deal of experience with favs, this summer I lost a young polish to the heat wave we had in NY. I think it was 6 or 7 days over 90F . I was adding ice to their water stations every few hours and they had lots of shade. My husband is a vet so he posted it and sent tissue samples to the lab he deals with. Everything came back clean. I do have a young Fav and he and the polish were the same age. Hope this helps. He said that birds can just drop dead with temps that high for extended periods of time.

 

[Cloverwood]

Hello all, I saw this thread a couple of days ago and finally decided I needed to set the record straight. My name is Susan Akins, I live in Estacada, Oregon. Cloverwood Farms is a family farm name that I took over when my dad passed away in 1986 - I have been using it since then. I am proud of the name and have raised some quality animals under it. I currently raise Soay Sheep. I have also raised polish and dutch rabbits and exotic birds (finches and parrots).

I bought my first Faverolles 3 years ago (fell in love with them from the first day) from a hatchery and quickly learned that what I had was not show worthy and decided that I would start trying to improve my flock so that I could start attending poultry shows. So far I've only shown at the local county fair just to get some experience showing, since I don't yet know what I'm doing....

I do not personally know Jeanine or Cloverleaf Farms, although I have heard of her and do know she is the president of the Faverolles club and well respected. Of course I noticed the name similarity however did not really think much of it. I have been wanting to talk to her about Faverolles since she does have really nice birds and I need some expert advise on the breed (and hopefully get some birds from her). Jeanine did contact me through Facebook and I explained my farm name to her. She seemed to understand and I plan on talking to her in person next month at a local poultry swap.

Truthfully, after reading the posts about this I have felt sad, discouraged and upset. I was so excited about these chickens and now it seems not worth the effort. I would never try to pass myself off as someone else or try to sell my birds as theirs. That is not who I am and wanted the people on this forum to know that.

Respectfully,

Susan Akins
Cloverwood Farms
Estacada, Oregon

 

[motherochickens]

Wanted to throw this out to the experts here. I have a salmon faverolle, about 7 months old and she doesn't look at all like I expected her too. Smaller than all my other birds - but I know she isn't supposed to be as big. But she has no beard and very little feathers on her feet. She is at the bottom of the peaking order with the other birds right now and I wonder if that is why she looks this way, or is there something wrong with her? Runt maybe? I have some baby chickens that will be introduced into the mix in a couple weeks... I'm hoping that changes up the peaking order a bit. Should I be worried about her?