Faverolles Thread

[faverolles]

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Are they all from the same parents?
Dick

 

[faverolles]

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Your right that is a startling difference! What are they eating that is different? Umm maybe it has to do with the brooder raised ones being warmer and having access to food more often. Some mothers are over protective and keep their babies from eating as much as they should.

I feel that Henry is right. Myself I only raise brooder chicks. I don't let my hens hatch their own. Chicks in the brooder have the constant heat and all they do is eat and sleep. Chicks that stay with their mother are outside where the temperature is not constant and they are more active where I feel they are burning up a lot of their food.
With the test you stated above would be interesting by putting eggs in your incubator and at the same time putting eggs under a broody. Then the birds would be the same age. I would love to see the results.
Dick

 

[faverolles]

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Can you take pictures of the males from the front view. I'm curious.
Dick

 

[faverolles]

Rock N' Faverolles :

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I don't mind the top male at all but I think I still like the second one the best. What do you mean white triangles? If you mean the coloring on the primaries and secondaries, if it's totally lacking it's a pretty big defect (in my opinion) and I don't know if I'd use it in the breeding pen. If that was the case, I'd stick with using the top one. I'd actually probably end up using both and just marking the eggs and chicks so I knew what chicks came from what matings.

Yes, the white triangle is a defect but like I said earlier there is no perfect bird. I would breed him to see how his sons look. But me....I would breed him to smutty hens.HA
Dick​

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Can you take pictures of the males from the front view. I'm curious.
Dick

Sure thing Dick, I'll get the front view pics tomorrow (as long as it's not downpouring).

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Dick - I do understand that I have to know the standard (can't wait to get my hands on the newly updated, color SOP!), however, picture critiques are very helpful to me in understanding how the standard is applied to a bird in "real life". I also like having the faults pointed out because, as you say, there is no perfect bird and I want to learn what the faults are and how to best utilize each bird to minimize its faults and capitalize on its good points when breeding. I really appreciate your input/comments. I know I will make mistakes with these birds (and hopefully learn something from them) but its really nice to get tips from you based on the many years of experience you have had with Faverolles. Hopefully the experience based comments that you, and the other more experienced breeders on this thread, offer will help me avoid some mistakes along the way. I realize that the way you do things with your birds may not be the way I eventually do things with mine, but you are at least giving me a good "jumping off" point so to speak.

All of the chicks in my earlier post have the same parents. The only differences in the two batches are the broody hen/brooder box and exactly one week's difference in age. And they all seem to be equally healthy and active. I am definitely going to experiment with this again to see if the same thing happens. I want to try to get weekly pictures the next time to show how the chicks progress. I do think I'll use eggs that I want to hatch for my layer flock though, as opposed to my Salmon Faverolles breeding flock. I definitely prefer the bigger babies for the breeding flock. I'll probably start a separate thread when the time comes but I will post the link to it on this thread.

 

[thechickonthehill]

Yes, the white triangle is a defect but like I said earlier there is no perfect bird. I would breed him to see how his sons look. But me....I would breed him to smutty hens.HA
Dick

Did you mean the LACK of a white triangle on the wing is a defect?​

 

[comerspoultry]

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I don't mind the top male at all but I think I still like the second one the best. What do you mean white triangles? If you mean the coloring on the primaries and secondaries, if it's totally lacking it's a pretty big defect (in my opinion) and I don't know if I'd use it in the breeding pen. If that was the case, I'd stick with using the top one. I'd actually probably end up using both and just marking the eggs and chicks so I knew what chicks came from what matings.

Yes, the white triangle is a defect but like I said earlier there is no perfect bird. I would breed him to see how his sons look. But me....I would breed him to smutty hens.HA
Dick

You don't want to get the bantam cocks too big. You should breed him to a smaller hen to see what you get. 2 years ago, I put leg bands on each breeding pen I hatched. That way you can keep track of your matings. The funny thing is I got so many different looking birds from my one breeding pen(dark roos, light roos, clean pullets and smutty pullets). It was very interesting.

 

[gootziecat]

I have an old SOP and it calls for straw colored hackles and saddle feathers on the roos. Most pictures I see now of them the hackles and saddle feathers are white. Is it my monitor or has the SOP changed? Thanks.

 

[faverolles]

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I'd definitely keep the light one for making pullets... too bad we can't specify which sex the chicks will be. My light one attacks me, when he's not sick... he's still getting over a sinus infection. I'm learning a lot this year.

The top guy looks like he has white in his beard.
I'm glad to see that the white wingtips are normal... I was about to cull for it in this guy [URL]https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39089_gryffson1.jpg[/URL]

On a side note... someone (who found me on the Fav Fanciers roster, right after I joined!) wants to borrow a roo for a few months to breed her backyard flock. They are isolated & healthy, & mareks vaccinated (mine are not), & wants to pay me for the privilege.
1) how do you folks feel about mareks?
2 & 3) would you send out a roo for stud service? If yes, how much would you charge, if anything?

Thanks all!
Laurie

I don't vaccinate my birds. Here is where I'm a little worried about going to the Crossroad show. I don't need to bring anything home. How many birds I will bring to the show will depend on how many extra coops I can make during the summer. When I come home from the show each bird will go into a coop by it's self for about three weeks.
If you lend this bird out and you get it back it needs to go in its own coop for a few weeks away from your other birds. If this is an extra male think about selling the bird to the person that wants him.
The price for stud service is up to you, depends how long the person holds on to him.
Dick