Faverolles Thread

[pasofinofarm]

I got true breeding whites in 3 generations. The sports are beautiful as youngsters but turn a tan color, usualy after the first molt. Not that those are ugly either but they are not a recognized color.

I hate to admit this but we accidently butchered my white roo last year in the fall. We were doing a bunch of cockerels and I had several whites... I told the boys to get allt he white boys (meaning out of the meat pen and free rangers) well... one of the guys wen't into the breeding pen and snatched up my white roo..It was getting late and we had already done some larger animal meat processing that day and were exhausted and just trying to finish. I never even realized it until the next day... So now I have a local chicken friend who is raising up six second generation white cockerels... If there is one who is correct and does not go off color I will set the white pen up again in fall. Or I might just be able to buy a nice white roo somewhere...Peter I have been reading your advice to not add new blood... I have so many things worked out already with these birds that it makes a lot of sense to me but sometimes it seems the fastest way to what I want... and now there may be one available... which was not the case at all when I first decided I wanted whites (I love their clean look... nothing as pristine as a clean white bird).

Oh and the last time we butchered birds I put locks on all the breeding pens... better safe than sorry!

 

[hcammack]

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Try Ron Patterson he might have one for you not sure. That is really to bad about the white boy. I know how it is though one day we butchered the bull on the farm I worked on Oh my goodness I was almost crushed under his hind quarter! Then the next day we processed 300 CornishX's I almost died ha ha.

 

[Hoytr]

Has anybody ever ordered faverolle hatching eggs from McCallums flock? I ordered 6 i got 9 and was wondering if they have good hatch rates and if there birds have good quality???

 

[Laurieks]

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My first Favs are from McCallums; I bought a dozen eggs last Summer, hatched by 2 broodies (she sent 15 eggs, which wouldn't fit under one hen, fortunately 2 were broody) and got 6 chicks, one died at ~5 days, was just as active & vigorous as the others but never grew and was dead one morning. I think I would have had more chicks if I had Isolated the broodies. The elder banty cochin who took the second half of the eggs insisted on being in a spot where the 2 lf elder cochins kept egg stealing. She hatched 2 of her 8 eggs.
One of the remaining 5 has black 'spangles' over her salmon color (posted on page 1 of this thread) but otherwise fits standard. I kept 3, and would only show one, #2 has a skimpy muff, and #3 has the black color thing.
They are flighty, but I'm not sure my broodies didn't do that to them, telling them lies about our intentions.

 

[Hoytr]

So you did not get any roo's out of that batch? i have been asking a lot of people about hatch rates from them and it seems all the people i have asked get below 50%. McCallums sure seems to have better quality bantams than standards also from what i have seen.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Out of three batches of eggs from them, I've gotten....3 chicks....ugh! First batch = 0, replacement eggs = 1 boy, 1 girl, the girl is so-so, smaller beard than I'd like, with some black splashing in it, the male is GORGEOUS! I just hope he starts filling out SOON! I really love his temperament though. The third batch just hatched 1 chick (and it was NOT an incubator issue, like we thought the first round was) and I don't know if it's a girl or a boy yet, it just hatched a couple days ago, but it has perfect toes! I HOPE it's a girl!! So, with original purchase price of the eggs, plus 3 rounds of shipping, I've paid $98 for three birds!

Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed.

Anyway, here's a pic of the cockerel from them...it doesn't really do him justice, I had to take it on my phone, and he's camera shy...

 

[pasofinofarm]

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Thanks Peter. It was actually birds from Gayle and Norman Pontious that started producing whites here and they had a pure strain of whites so maybe were farther ahead somehow?

Even some of the fist generation white sports do not change color... but not all. By the third they are pretty much set I think although I have not done enough hatching to know if they may get throwbacks or if they may turn at an older age. We shall see. Thanks for the input.

 

[seminolewind]

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Yes they are and they have 6 more siblings!

 

[EweSheep]

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Thanks Peter. It was actually birds from Gayle and Norman Pontious that started producing whites here and they had a pure strain of whites so maybe were farther ahead somehow?

Even some of the fist generation white sports do not change color... but not all. By the third they are pretty much set I think although I have not done enough hatching to know if they may get throwbacks or if they may turn at an older age. We shall see. Thanks for the input.

If I remember right, Gayle's white Faverolles were pretty consistent...no throwbacks yet or any "tan" issues in any of their birds that I know of.

 

[hcammack]

I think I have 4 boys and 3 girls in the LF not sure if I can keep any I want to but might not have room

Two of my bantam chicks from Rose Isgrig are feathering in really really slowly they are eating and growing in tiny increments nothing like the other bantam and the Std. chicks we will see though if they can catch up they are only a week old now and they don't look sickly or anything. I have one bantam chick growing very strongly and it looks to be a cockerel but not sure yet. His toe placement is to die for so I threw a chick band on him just to make sure I don't get rid of him. I think he will be one of the 20 chicks I keep to grow out and get my two or three breeders.