Faverolles Thread

[pasofinofarm]

Well Henry at least you do not have that problem with COWS... like me... LOL

I have 10 now...

 

[hcammack]

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If I could I would I think I want to make cheese and I'm working at a dairy this summer ha ha

 

[Freeholder]

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If I could I would I think I want to make cheese and I'm working at a dairy this summer ha ha

I have to be careful -- it would be easy to have that problem with goats! (Right now I only have two Oberhasli does and a Nigerian Dwarf buck, but at one time I had seventeen goats on the place.)

I'm getting some LF Salmon Faverolle chicks from Cloverleaf Farm -- my mother and step-father are passing near her place Monday and will pick them up and bring them home for me! I'm very excited!

Kathleen

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

ok, so this is quasi faverolles related but has anyone bought the faverolles patches someone makes and sells on ebay? i'd love to get them but i wasn't sure how nice they really were. i figured they would look good on my BYC hoodie i have coming this week. that way i have something to wear to the swaps and shows i'll be going to.

 

[hcammack]

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If I could I would I think I want to make cheese and I'm working at a dairy this summer ha ha

I have to be careful -- it would be easy to have that problem with goats! (Right now I only have two Oberhasli does and a Nigerian Dwarf buck, but at one time I had seventeen goats on the place.)

I'm getting some LF Salmon Faverolle chicks from Cloverleaf Farm -- my mother and step-father are passing near her place Monday and will pick them up and bring them home for me! I'm very excited!

Kathleen

YAY ya I love goats to. My life plan is to make cheese from goats and cows. Hopefully I find a way I know its almost impossible to make a living doing that so I might have to keep a 2nd job maybe I should double major buisness and dairy manegment.

 

[Freeholder]

Henry, actually a cheese plant can do fairly well financially -- it's the cost of setting it up that will kill you. Just plain dairying and selling milk wholesale to the big plants is what is killing most of the dairies in this country -- wholesale prices are often lower than what it costs to produce the milk. If you do a dual major in business management and dairy production, you ought to do well.

Kathleen

 

[hcammack]

I forgot to tell everyone I lost my chick the other day I think he just never really got off to a good start. I can hear the eggs due on Friday peeping away.

Henry

 

[Laurieks]

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poor chick... she had a good life though
yay for peeps on the way

 

[hcammack]

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poor chick... she had a good life though
yay for peeps on the way

I am really not sure what happened he always had a hard time walking hopefully this batch is lots of healthy chicks.

 

[Laurieks]

Fav behavior question.... supposed to be calm & friendly, right?

Ours are flighty, and begin to cluck loudly as if we were foxes if we go in the coop after they roost. They were raised by our wilder broodies, but walked all over my son for treats until about 10 weeks old. He would lie down with grain on his belly; they jumped right up to eat.
I pick them up gently at night, and just hold them quietly, in hopes that they will remember us humans are ok, but so far no change.

TIA,
L