Faverolles Thread

[hcammack]

Great job Leisha!

 

[thechickonthehill]

Yay Leisha!

That is great! Wish I could have made it over there. My husband brought me home a pile of orders (which I am still not finished with) that have to be ready Monday so I worked all day.

I do have new babies now. The Fav eggs started hatching Thursday night. The first one was in a hurry-pipped at 9:00 pm and hatched by 11:00. The rest of the Favs hatched throughout the day on Friday. I had 5 Favs in this batch and 10 B/S Orpingtons. All 5 of the Favs hatched and are doing great. So far, 4 of the Orps have hatched and look good (the latest one hatched yesterday at 1:00 pm), one pipped and died in the shell (a lot of blood, must have hit a vein), and 5 more are still in the incubator. None of them have pipped so I don't really expect anything else to hatch but I'll give them til in the morning. Not too bad though - 100% hatch of my own eggs and 50% on shipped. I am super happy about it!

(Especially since this bunch was incubated in my new homemade incubator which worked great.) I still have 5 more Fav eggs due to hatch next Saturday. I put them under my Fav broody Friday night and she is guarding them ferociously. Hopefully she will hatch them successfully. I'll try to post a pic later today IF I get all this work finished and can sneak it in before I have to go over and work on the leather shop reconstruction project.

 

[junebug7334]

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Keep us posted. That is great that you had all five Favs. hatch!

 

[comerspoultry]

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My husband took the picture with his phone and she wouldn't stand still for him, she thought he was going to feed her.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Very nice!

 

[hcammack]

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Very pretty girl look at that you got a plaque and everything thats so awesome huge win! Even in this picture you can see that girl has an awesome head nice and wide.

Henry

 

[hcammack]

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Glad to hear about the successful hatch. I am thinking about incubating for someone this spring since I have so many incubators lying around at home and I think it would be fun to hatch in the dorms

I would probably hatch some Faverolles or maybe some Marans and Ameraucanas for someones flock.

Henry

 

[buffbeauty]

Congrats leisha!! That's an awesome day for sure!

Congrats on the hatch!!

 

[mame1616]

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Wow! Congratulations! My little roo took BB, and a Fav hen took R. Continental on Champion Row. Never did find out who owned her, but it should be in the poultry press. Judge was very honest with me when I asked for an assessment and said he rarely comes across favs, so I should seek advice from those more familiar with the breed. I thought that was very nice of him to admit that.

 

[comerspoultry]

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Wow! Congratulations! My little roo took BB, and a Fav hen took R. Continental on Champion Row. Never did find out who owned her, but it should be in the poultry press. Judge was very honest with me when I asked for an assessment and said he rarely comes across favs, so I should seek advice from those more familiar with the breed. I thought that was very nice of him to admit that.

What show was you at and what judge was you talking to?