Faverolles Thread

[comerspoultry]

Hey Dick
How are things going? Haven't heard from you in a while

 

[faverolles]

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Personally I wouldn't go back to blue. If you go back to salmon you would improve type and could be on your way to try and produce lavender salmons. If you could locate a black Faverolles male you could shoot for the lavender Faverolles.
Dick

You guys are having fun with these colors aren't you. I love reading all about it. I am just going to breed my lonely old mahogany to my darkest salmon and see what I get. Sounds boring doesn't it.

Be careful. Really keep track of the young. You will get some salmons from this breeding where you really don't want to put into your salmon line. You could get some red salmons from this mating.
Dick

 

[faverolles]

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Working crazy hours. Tired. Hopefully this week end I get to go through some of my birds.
Dick

 

[comerspoultry]

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Working crazy hours. Tired. Hopefully this week end I get to go through some of my birds.
Dick

Work is not the problem here, since I am on medical leave, it is the steroids they have me on since my radiation treatment. Only sleeping 5 hours a night. Let just say the house is very clean and the birds hate me. Messing with them 3 or 4 times a day, they look at me like here she comes again. LOL In a couple of weeks, I am going to put pens together to start breeding again. It is really quiet in the computer/incubator room with it not running. This will give me 6 month old birds for the start of the spring season.

 

[GypsyChic]

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Personally I wouldn't go back to blue. If you go back to salmon you would improve type and could be on your way to try and produce lavender salmons. If you could locate a black Faverolles male you could shoot for the lavender Faverolles.
Dick

You guys are having fun with these colors aren't you. I love reading all about it. I am just going to breed my lonely old mahogany to my darkest salmon and see what I get. Sounds boring doesn't it.

LOL, it is fun but interesting and a LOT of hard work (time, time and more time). Your Red/mahogany salmon sounds very interesting, I'd love to see pics of these guys

I'm trying to concentrate on the lavender program right now, and finding a black roo is going to be a bit hard unless I raise one from this batch that hatched last week. We will see I guess. Hanging in there, lol. Thanks Dick & Cindy for all the help and info. May have to work this to MY advantage (heehee) and sweet talk you out of some chicks or eggs Dick!

 

[comerspoultry]

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You guys are having fun with these colors aren't you. I love reading all about it. I am just going to breed my lonely old mahogany to my darkest salmon and see what I get. Sounds boring doesn't it.

LOL, it is fun but interesting and a LOT of hard work (time, time and more time). Your Red/mahogany salmon sounds very interesting, I'd love to see pics of these guys

I'm trying to concentrate on the lavender program right now, and finding a black roo is going to be a bit hard unless I raise one from this batch that hatched last week. We will see I guess. Hanging in there, lol. Thanks Dick & Cindy for all the help and info. May have to work this to MY advantage (heehee) and sweet talk you out of some chicks or eggs Dick!

Here is a pic of my mahogany roo, that also helped me get buffs.

 

[GypsyChic]

He has nice even color to him. I've not seen a mahogany before

Was he one you bought or hatched from your program? I'd like to know how to get some of the gold out of my blacks that seem to constantly produce at least SOME form of it in the chicks. Not heavy lacing, but it shows up here and there, usually around the neck area or under the chin. Some only w/1 or 2 feathers, and then the one hen with obvious lace.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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i wonder if we could work with that lacing some more. maybe working on something similar to a gold/silver birchen or brown red in the cochin hens! i've been having that type of lacing show up in some of my bantam cochin chicks when i crossed my black hen with an off colored birchen/brassy back roo (no lacing in his feathers).

 

[comerspoultry]

Chickie'sMoma :

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i wonder if we could work with that lacing some more. maybe working on something similar to a gold/silver birchen or brown red in the cochin hens! i've been having that type of lacing show up in some of my bantam cochin chicks when i crossed my black hen with an off colored birchen/brassy back roo (no lacing in his feathers).

When i got my buff hens from Dick, there was no roo. so I had been working on blacks and took my black roo and started breeding them. I hatched out over 150 black and buff chicks and kept 5. Some had some gold lace in the hackles but I kept for type. I got so frustrated, I took 1 buff hen and bred it to my salmon roo. That is how I got mahogany. So I took him and bred him back to my buffs and I am slowing getting the true color of the buff.
I am going to breed him to my darkest salmon hen and see what I get. Not doing alot just wanna see something. Plus give him a girlfriend.

As for the gold lacing. The only way I finally got it out of then blacks is I only breed blackxblack​

 

[keesmom]

This picture was taken by a local Maine paper photographer/reporter. I'll have to see if it shows up in tomorrow's paper.

http://mainetoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=30843984&event=1051421&CategoryID=55532