Faverolles Thread

[hcammack]

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I'd like to know the answer to this question too as I will probably have some that need to go to freezer camp this spring.

I'm quoting this as I too would also really like to know this. So, if anybody has experience to share about the best age to process a faverolles roo... it would be most appreciated!

I would PM Melissa its over 20 weeks I would guess 25-30 weeks put I have no experiance yet. So I am waiting for someone to answer it to.

Henry

 

[hipeatall]

Good thinking Henry! I will do that. Melissa is really wonderful... and has beautiful birds. I got to make a little road trip out to her farm last spring and got 4 faverolles chicks and 1 golden cuckoo marans chick from her... I love them and I am really looking forward to going back this spring!

Amy

 

[pasofinofarm]

Got the PM... We feed out our meatbirds like crazy and let them range (lots of dung beetles on a farm, LOL) and process at 4 months. They are not huge birds if you are used to looking at Cornish cross but they are tasty, VERY tasty!

 

[hcammack]

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Good to hear! Do you feed them high protien broiler feed?

 

[hcammack]

Got some new pictures everyone else should to took these just now.

Here are the Fav chicks I know one is a pullet

(sorry about the camera tilt)

Here are the wyndottes

Now for the adult
Here is breeding flock #1 I couldn't get a good picture of the Blue salmon Hen and she is the nicest in that pen also sorry for the muddy and wet beards they are much bigger and cleaner in reality.

Now flock #2 Oxley Cockeral over three Salmon hens

NOW EVERYONE GO TAKE PICTURES !!

 

[hipeatall]

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Thank you so much!!!

 

[hipeatall]

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Great Picks Henry! Thanks for sharing them... it's wet and nasty here... but as soon as the weather clears up I'm gonna get some pictures of my birds to share.

 

[hcammack]

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Great Picks Henry! Thanks for sharing them... it's wet and nasty here... but as soon as the weather clears up I'm gonna get some pictures of my birds to share.

Great I can't wait just started dumping snow here its not supposed to stop for two days! The birds aren't looking there best I need to give them baths and have a really good photo shoot. I may do that if I get bored today give some of the hens bathes and make them look all fresh and pretty again.

Henry

 

[JenEric Farms]

hcammack - How can you tell you have at least one pullet?

 

[hcammack]

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With the Faverolles breed the coloring comes in very early in the first two weeks you can sex them its all about what color the upper wing feathers coloring. The lower wing feathers of the pullets come in light brown and salmon and thats a dead give away. The cockeral have dark brown, black, or blue upper wing feathers. The lower feathers are lighter on pullets but its impossible to tell till the upper wing feathers come in.

Thanks,
Henry