Faverolles Thread

[seminolewind]

Pasofino SF update: 8 into lockdown, and 8 beautiful chicks!!!!! Thankyou, Melissa, for pressing me to put them back in the bator-9 went back in, 8 into lockdown, 8 hatched all healthy!

 

[hcammack]

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Wow congrats! Post pictures soon.

 

[hcammack]

I washed two hens today and they are inside in a dog crate one just layed and egg and my mom jumps up and says what's that noise she was doing the egg yell right in the mud room ha ha.

 

[pasofinofarm]

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It is very hard Henry... I would almost rather butcher grown birds than have to snuff a little fluffy butt. But in nature nothing that comes in litters or clutches are meant to all live and only keeping the hardy, strong ones is the way to ensure that you will have better adults and that they will have better stronger chicks in the future. You did the right thing, truly. Have peace about it, friend.

Melissa

 

[pasofinofarm]

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Thank you Karen for being willing to try and for being trusting. I hope that if I ever have such an experience, I am half as gracious as you have been. I am still mortified about the stinky eggs... thank goodness I was NOT selling kitchen eggs at the time... can you imagine?

Especially since 99% of my business is to health concious doctors and nurses... that would have gone over like a cockroach in a punchbowl.

(...sorry... old Texas saying, ewww!).

Glad you got 8... nobody deserves it more!

 

[hcammack]

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no no no.-) you never help a chick out of shell. they need time...arrrgh!

and if indeed there's something wrong it will take care of itsself. weak chicks sometimes just need time to rest after the stress of pipping and hatch. i had to learn the hard way too. put your chicks in the hatcher or lower level of the incubator and don't open the door till the noise has calmed down. if you have a fiberglass or glass door where you can see distressed chicks ignore it. every time you open the door the incubator and eggs/chicks have to work real hard to maintain consistant temps. with all the hugs in my heart..
peter

I know defently learned my lesson about it. I will not be doing this EVER again! I helped them out after the hatch was over so I wasn't to worried about the other eggs as it was about 2 or 3 days after they were due. I will defenlty be following your advice from now on though. Lesson learned on to the next one

Thanks for the advice,
Henry

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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if you plan on coming up this direction while in college i'd gladly take those bantams!

i traveled over to U of VT about 15 years ago during a trip with my family and i liked their options for vet/AG school at that time.

sorry to hear about your little chickies. i have had luck only once with trying to help a chick out of it's shell when it was struggling and i should always remember that it won't help them to help them.

i'll see if i can get some updated pics of my 2 little ones to see if we can cheer you up and figure out if they are pullets or cockerels at this stage in their coloring. (i see salmon feathering in their shoulders now so i am wondering if my cockerel prediction might be wrong after all!)

 

[Freeholder]

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I look forward to reading that -- I have a lot to learn about this breed.

Kathleen

 

[Laurieks]

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I'm still waiting to hear back about whether I can get both the Buffington and Boulanger roos. We're playing phone tag. I said since she has both lines, if one is taken may I buy some eggs so I'd have both lines.

Thanks Peter for the update!

 

[hcammack]

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I really am open and want as much constructive feedbakc and cristicism as I can get. This entire thing is a learning process and each trial and tribulation and triumph I have had in chicken keeping has been added to my mental chicken keeping book. This was just another lesson as soon as I helped them I knew it was wrong and I would have to cull them later.

I am glad that this thread has provided some more fuel. This site really is great! I can't wait to see the new article and the site. Keep up the great work.