Faverolles Thread

[FVRM]

Some of my faverolles have slate feet, is that normal?

 

[keesmom]

Some of my faverolles have slate feet, is that normal?

They should be white. Do you have a picture?

 

[FVRM]

It's weird

 

[Ragdollcatlady]

Ameraucanas have slate legs...your girl looks a bit sparse in the leg feathers too....I would venture a guess that she probably has some ameraucana mixed in there.

There is someone in my area advertising faverolles and saying that they lay green and blue eggs....

....I am afraid some folks may buy from them not knowing that if they do lay green or blue eggs, then they aren't pure.

 

[FVRM]

Ameraucanas have slate legs...your girl looks a bit sparse in the leg feathers too....I would venture a guess that she probably has some ameraucana mixed in there.

There is someone in my area advertising faverolles and saying that they lay green and blue eggs....  ....I am afraid some folks may buy from them not knowing that if they do lay green or blue eggs, then they aren't pure. 

That thought crossed my mind but they came from a respectable breeder. And only a few have them not all. I'm gonna have to wait for an egg to be certain. I'm guessing it's a recessive gene or something.

 

[keesmom]

It's weird

Are they blue? I had blue legs pop up in some bantam white Favs. The males all had white legs and all the pullets had blue.

 

[gootziecat]

I bought bantam eggs from what I thought was a respectable Fav breeder. They were purchased off of eBay but the person is also on this thread. Out of about 20 eggs, 2 hatched. One I believe was a decent Fav chick but unfortunately it was my first to drown itself at 2 days old. So I'll never know. The other has the 5th toes and a little leg feathering but not much. It has no muff and beard and it is horribly cross beaked. These were hatched under hens, not an incubator. The eggs were old and I know that because I hard boil eggs once I know they are not viable to feed to my chicks. One egg literally exploded in the water and all the rest had very grey whites and the whites were very firm. Some times it's hard to know who we can trust and it takes more homework than an assumption. Lesson learned.

 

[LadyCluck77]

I bought bantam eggs from what I thought was a respectable Fav breeder. They were purchased off of eBay but the person is also on this thread. Out of about 20 eggs, 2 hatched. One I believe was a decent Fav chick but unfortunately it was my first to drown itself at 2 days old. So I'll never know. The other has the 5th toes and a little leg feathering but not  much. It has no muff and beard and it is horribly cross beaked. These were hatched under hens, not an incubator. The eggs were old and I know that because I hard boil eggs once I know they are not viable to feed to my chicks. One egg literally exploded in the water and all the rest had very grey whites and the whites were very firm. Some times it's hard to know who we can trust and it takes more homework than an assumption. Lesson learned.

This type of experience scares me, since I am toying with the idea to order 30 shipped eggs for hatching.
How were the chicks drowning themselves? Did they have bent neck issues? I've heard that can also be from the eggs being too old.

 

[Angiebubs]

LadyCluck are you looking for bantam or LF?

 

[LadyCluck77]

Large fowl. I have some 13 week olds I hatched from a local breeder, but I was thinking about getting some unrelated bloodlines at some point in the future.