Faverolles Thread

[crazyhen]

Remember its the hen that determines the sex of the offspring not the roo. Genetics are different for chickens than mammals.

 

[lungewhipqueen]

Read somewhere that men who are outdoorsman have a greater chance of having girls and non-outdoorsy men boys......

Well that's a little ironic. LOL

 

[mame1616]

Quote: Ha-ha! My daughter and her boyfriend are totally into sports. (I can't believe she's related to me.) I told her this pretty much guarantees she's going to have non-sporty kids.

 

[n8ivetxn]

Well that's a little ironic. LOL

Isn't it!? LOL.....Who woulda thunk it?

Thanks to everybody for contributing - I had no idea the hen was the determining factor.....Well, well. I guess I don't have to worry about having a bunch of boys. This year almost everything that hatched was a pullet. Out of 12 chicks only 3 were cockerels.

 

[mame1616]

Quote:
You realize we all get to hate you now, right?

 

[poularde]

I am trying not to hate.

My hens seem to lean towards boys. I only hatched two pullets and eleven cockerels this year. At least I have some nice boys. Plenty to choose from. Lol.

 

[keesmom]

Lots of males here too. I think my hatches gave me about 20 pullets and 80 cockerels.

 

[choptank330]

Leg mites or no ?

 

[bayocum]

Not an expert, but it does look like some photos I've seen. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[n8ivetxn]

You realize we all get to hate you now, right?

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to gloat! LOL

And, most of them are not perfect, they have slight imperfections....Well, next year I'll have some girls to share with others - and maybe I could ship out a few eggs too! Would that make things better?

I really didn't hatch too much this year. I just felt like my pens were getting crowded, even though everybody seemed to be alright..... I even sold 2 hatchery girls and 2 olive egger pullets I raised......

It would be nice to have a few boys to choose from! Slim pickings this season, plus I lost one of my big roos - the mean one! He was slated for the freezer, but died before I could get him processed. I noticed he had started molting and wasn't feeling very well, but after being out of town over night I came home and he was no more.....hmmm