Faverolles Thread

[thechickonthehill]

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Girls. Do you see a big difference in the length of the wings between boys and girls? My "boys" have stubby wings at about 10 days now. The girls wings are long, and they've started getting tail feathers. I gotta take some pics.

Now that's something I didn't know about (of course there are a million others to learn). I'll have to do a comparative inspection of wing feathers. Thanks for the info seminolewind!

 

[hcammack]

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Girls. Do you see a big difference in the length of the wings between boys and girls? My "boys" have stubby wings at about 10 days now. The girls wings are long, and they've started getting tail feathers. I gotta take some pics.

Now that's something I didn't know about (of course there are a million others to learn). I'll have to do a comparative inspection of wing feathers. Thanks for the info seminolewind!

Its worked for me so far. I have 3 salmon/b salmon girls from melissa and 4 salmon and b salmon boys. Then I have a girl and two boys from Rose isgrig (I think) so far the bantams coloring has been more predictable and they have been easier to sex. I love the girl from Rose and she has A+ toes so I am going to keep her with one chick with nice toes from ugly ducky. I am just going to wait and see how their type comes along.

Henry

 

[Laurieks]

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Like Henry, I also refuse to cage my birds, I show them, but don't take the birds that have done serious damage to their foot feathers. They always look a little scruffy around the leg/foot area, but I think most judges can tell when you have a nice bird that gets to be 'happy' and run around outside. If they are going to be THAT picky, they can take their ribbon and shove it! I show my birds for fun, and if they win, that's just a bonus anyway!

Me too!
When Cornelius went to the show, he had some broken feathers; but his conformation was better than his neighbor so he went 1st in his class of 2 roos. I cleaned his feet with a toothbrush and then a Qtip and they looked fine (for January

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[EweSheep]

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Are their legs grey or white?

 

[seminolewind]

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Girls. Do you see a big difference in the length of the wings between boys and girls? My "boys" have stubby wings at about 10 days now. The girls wings are long, and they've started getting tail feathers. I gotta take some pics.

Now that's something I didn't know about (of course there are a million others to learn). I'll have to do a comparative inspection of wing feathers. Thanks for the info seminolewind!

chicken on the hill, I was going to reply to your pics, but I couldn't be sure enough to give you answers. However, my guesses would be based on my pics here, since that worked for me last year. So, I hope you can see for yourself that you most likely have more girls than you thought.

Hipeatall, Funny, Last year I did the same thing you did. When I saw the white faverolles, I mistook them to be the girls, and the darker ones the boys, until I realized that there were white ones in there.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

oooh, you guys are really making me want to get the LF favs now. my local Blue Seal is getting hatchery rare breeds and those are listed on there along with dorkings and brabanters. i like having the larger eggs and how those breeds look but i want to stick to my bantams still.

 

[seminolewind]

I wish I could get Blue Seal feed down here. My old horse ate it for 20 years, and lived to the age of 37.

I say go for it. Salmon Favs, well, they are the only chicks that I've ever had who don't run from my hand, and come near me out of curiousity, sit on my hand and peck my freckles. They are so tame. Then when they get bigger, they are the fluffiest, nose-burying, plump, soft chickens, even better than snuggling with a silkie.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Now that's something I didn't know about (of course there are a million others to learn). I'll have to do a comparative inspection of wing feathers. Thanks for the info seminolewind!

chicken on the hill, I was going to reply to your pics, but I couldn't be sure enough to give you answers. However, my guesses would be based on my pics here, since that worked for me last year. So, I hope you can see for yourself that you most likely have more girls than you thought.

Hipeatall, Funny, Last year I did the same thing you did. When I saw the white faverolles, I mistook them to be the girls, and the darker ones the boys, until I realized that there were white ones in there.

Thanks seminolewind. I think I have 3 pullets in the white and one cockerel.

Yay for pullets! The one that I think may be a cockerel is also the one with the darker spots on the wing feathers. I don't know enough to tell on the two darker chicks - there isn't much difference in their wing feathers. One has much heavier leg feathering and a lot of dark leg feathers. The other has much less leg feathering and only one or two dark feathers. They both seem to be feathering out at about the same rate. I do have questions for someone about the Salmon and Blue Salmon coloring. What is the difference? I see it in posts often put together (i.e. "Salmon/Blue Salmon") as if the colors are interchangeable. Are they two separate colors? Should you pen them together or separately for breeding purposes?

 

[EweSheep]

Breeders usually do breed blue salmons to salmons however you would get 50% of each, more or less of the colors. You would have less "blue" on their feathers, washing out the dark blues that we all enjoyed looking at. If you want to go to blue Salmons, better get 100% Blue Salmons.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Thank you, EweSheep. I really appreciate your help as well as everyone else's.

Now of course, my next question is are the two chicks that I have Blue Salmon (see more pics on post #1518) or Salmon? I assumed they were BS because they seem much darker than the Salmon Fav chicks I had last year. Below are close-ups of the two I have. I know the lighting is not the best - its really difficult to get chicks to be still, turn the right way AND stay in the good light for more than a fraction of a second

, as I'm sure you know from experience!