Faverolles Thread

[Chickie'sMoma]

Henry, i'd love to take some more but you know the situation and i don't need me dh getting grumpy over more boys coming onto the property!

Mosey seems to be doing wonderfully well in with my Sunny and his group of girls! everyone seems to love him being around and such a gentle boy around them too! Apollo has been a good boy too and i've named the 3 hens in with him. Dottie is the splash girl, Opal is the lighter and smaller, and Pearl is the slightly darker but bigger girl.

Dottie is the adventurous one i've found out. i've been letting them roam my garage while i've been working on things out there and i forgot on Thursday night that they were still loose. when i came back out after an hour in the house i noticed that Apollo and one of the girls was sitting on top of the huge dog crate. found one of the other girls hiding on a shelf. and Dottie, she had climbed a tall ladder up to the attic space in the garage! when i climbed the ladder to get her she scrambled the rest of the way up there!

i hate ladders for a reason! being a very large person they just don't mix well with me (i don't like heights either!) and with my dh not being home at the time i should have thought better about it. i climbed the thing to try and get into the attic space but when i got to the top and had one foot on the landing the ladder went out from under me and i fell about 12' to the ground.

i did hit my head but it landed on the plastic part of my treadmill and no concussion i could tell (yeah, great place to have it!), no broken bones, but my arm from landing on top of the ladder is scraped and badly bruised! OUCH!

after an hour of nursing my badly bruised arm and scrapes, and figuring out if i was ok or needing a hospital trip i went back out and started calling for Dottie and she kept coming to the opening to see me. realizing i had a better, but slightly shorter ladder i set it up and was able to grab the girl down, she didn't like me much for doing it. she has finally laid her first egg for me yesterday! i think i scared it out of her!

 

[hcammack]

I think Cloverleaf wants them

Glad that everyone is doing fine I am so sorry that you fell! Glad that she is laying again for you.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yay!! I'm SO excited to get these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I could use a refresher course with pics to tell the diff between salmon and blue salmon hens if someone has the time...thanks!!! (Hmm, or I suppose I could just wait to get this pair in the mail and compare her with my Salmon hens! LOL - duh!)

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i know, the roos are easy to tell. the hens are so difficult to tell apart!

 

[hcammack]

Its very hard to tell with hens kind of a guessing game. The girl I am sending you is a beautiful pale blue the prettiest blue salmon girl I have seen in a while and also the easiest to tell apart from salmon. She will work as a good baseline for what a blue salmon hen should look like.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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GREAT!!!!

 

[greyartist]

Is there a such thing as a white fav????? I have 7 beautiful babies I hatched from eggs I got from pasofinofarm. I'm new to favs but I think the salmon colored ones are hens and the ones with black are roos. but I have one that looks like it will be white. Is this a standard color??? It has the toes and check puffs.

 

[hcammack]

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Yes Pasofinofarm has white faverolles in her flock. Its a standardized color but its very rare. You have very pretty birds!

 

[faverolles]

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Yay!! I'm SO excited to get these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I could use a refresher course with pics to tell the diff between salmon and blue salmon hens if someone has the time...thanks!!! (Hmm, or I suppose I could just wait to get this pair in the mail and compare her with my Salmon hens! LOL - duh!)


Hi, On the blue salmon hens. You know you will have the same as breeding blues, blue, black and splash. With the hens they will all carry the salmon, you will see blue in the tail and wing for your blue salmons, in the black version (regular salmons) you will see black in the tail and wings and in the splash version you will see white in the tail and wings. It took me a while to realize the splash version on the hens. I made the blue salmon Faverolles after I saw them in England, I just fell in love with them. There was a pair for sale when I was there and man, did I want to take them home. I couldn't, so when I got home I decided to try and make them. Luckily Jim Pollard in Oklahoma was working on bantam blues and blacks and he sent me some eggs. All I did was cross a salmon male on blue hens. I had them but it took me a while to understand the genetics of what I had. I understand more now. The thing is when you get regular salmons ( black version ) those males are carrying the blue gene. They can really screw up your salmon line. Be careful, because I did it before I realized what I was doing. Good luck with your birds.
Dick

 

[hcammack]

Quote:
Yay!! I'm SO excited to get these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I could use a refresher course with pics to tell the diff between salmon and blue salmon hens if someone has the time...thanks!!! (Hmm, or I suppose I could just wait to get this pair in the mail and compare her with my Salmon hens! LOL - duh!)


Hi, On the blue salmon hens. You know you will have the same as breeding blues, blue, black and splash. With the hens they will all carry the salmon, you will see blue in the tail and wing for your blue salmons, in the black version (regular salmons) you will see black in the tail and wings and in the splash version you will see white in the tail and wings. It took me a while to realize the splash version on the hens. I made the blue salmon Faverolles after I saw them in England, I just fell in love with them. There was a pair for sale when I was there and man, did I want to take them home. I couldn't, so when I got home I decided to try and make them. Luckily Jim Pollard in Oklahoma was working on bantam blues and blacks and he sent me some eggs. All I did was cross a salmon male on blue hens. I had them but it took me a while to understand the genetics of what I had. I understand more now. The thing is when you get regular salmons ( black version ) those males are carrying the blue gene. They can really screw up your salmon line. Be careful, because I did it before I realized what I was doing. Good luck with your birds.
Dick

Welcome to BYC Dick! I am sure people will have a ton of great questions for you there has been some good discussion about all things faverolles in the past on this thread and I am really hoping that it continues. I am really sad I let the blue salmons go but hopefully if I want some eggs cloverleaf will be able to help me out in a few years.

Henry