Faverolles Thread

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I have coolness to share!! Faverolles are going to be featured as the focus of the Heritage Poultry Program at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon!! I have been talking to the Curator of Living Collections at the museum, (he contacted Leisha through the club site, I believe, and she put me in touch with him) and I am going to be hatching chicks for them!!! Got the confirmation email tonight.

It's going to be GREAT promo for the breed!!!

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Here's my first F2 chick. Only 4 toes on one foot, 5 on the other. Also has agouti stripes on the back.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13729_041311_05.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13729_041311_09.jpg

Oh my! How cute! I hope it never falls over though as its so roly-poly it will never be able to get back up.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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That is great Jeanine. Please keep us posted on how things go with this program.

 

[GypsyChic]

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We ran a working dairy for years. I was 'fortunate' enough (

) to get up every morning, milk 30+ head at 4am, clean dairy parlor and holding pen, then we'd rush out feed bottle calves, rush home to get a shower, eat (if there was time) and be ready for school by 8:15 am...LOL, can't say I miss it but hope your enjoying the process

Will be nice for you to have a house, I hope it all works out and you get to have your birds again and start another program. It all takes time, but sounds like you've got it all planned out. Glad to know your doing well, stay in touch hun...take care.

What did you milk we milk 34 cows half jerseys half holsteins we have 7 jerseys rated EX or above so we show them as well. We milk at 4am so then I go to classes after feeding calves and cleaning the barn. Good thing about the program is that there are 15 of us so I do it twice a week instead of every day. I also milk on another jersey farm that only has 8 cows but I milk with a surge.

Henry

holsteins & gernsey (sp ?)

 

[GypsyChic]

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Here's my first F2 chick. Only 4 toes on one foot, 5 on the other. Also has agouti stripes on the back.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13729_041311_05.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13729_041311_09.jpg

LOL, adorable babies

Can hardly wait for more blacks to get here and hatch! With the term "agouti", I understand what the visual is in certian breeds of dogs, but am curious if it's the same type of 'banding' with your chick & birds in general???

 

[floridamama]

hope this pulls up its my first batch of Favors.

they are the 12 little yellow fluffy peeps

ok they look more like a pile of peeps

 

[elizmartin]

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I have had several thru the years and to make sure i would monitor at least til they are almost half grown. thou non in the favarolles so far, i had 2 out of 6 orloff pets that developed cross beak later. Even thou they were from a closed flock and it could have been hereditary, it may have been anything. i don't have them anymore.
eliz

 

[Nimby Chickens]

Hi guys! Does anyone know of a large fowl faverolle breeder in central Florida? I'd like to get some eggs around this time next month. Could you send me a PM if you know anyone?

I'd be willing to buy shipped eggs too if I could find someone who breeds faverolle and brahmas and would ship both at once.

Looking for really nice stock but doesn't have to be show quality.

Thanks guys!

 

[jennifersmith326]

How would I sex my Salmon chicks, when they start feathering?

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Cockerels have wing feathers that look like this:

Pullets look like this:

The one in the forefront that is trying to dust bathe in the towel is a pullet. The yellow chick in the back (on the left with black on wing) is a cockerel.

Often, but not always, the cockerels will feather in more slowly than the pullets, especially the tail feathers. Hope this helps.