Faverolles Thread

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Fine with me!

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

one of my new chicks has a stripe on its head and i sort of named it Streak! usually it 'streaks' by mom to get away from me when i try to get a good look at him!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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Yes, You have the bragging rights, since they came from your flock!

 

[sianara]

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What color are her legs? Some hatcheries are offering "mahogany" Faverolles?

I'll check them tomorrow but if memory serves me right they are a gray/slate color with five toes and feathers on the leg. I'll get some much clearer closer pix tomorrow. She was sold as a salmon faverolle and I wasn't expecting show stock (I don't show anyway, they are pets to me) but I did expect her to be the correct coloring.

Well, memory did NOT serve me well

Her legs ARE white!

 

[sianara]

Ok Cloverleaf,

Now that I've seen how much your boy changed I'm thinking my girl "Aunt Nancy" (named after my aunt in Michigan who loves to hear all about my animals) might be ok after all

Here are a few more thumbnail shots I just took of her.

 

[hamilton3475]

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She's a dark little Fav hen They're curious little buggers, I love em

 

[sianara]

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She's a dark little Fav hen They're curious little buggers, I love em

So do you think she will lighten up or is she always going to be dark?

Looks like I'll be getting some hatching eggs from Cloverleaf especially after seeing her rooster picture. I want a LF rooster that is calm and more docile than what I've had in the past and in looks alone he's at the top of the chart!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I had a batch of the Dark Salmons, & they stayed dark until the day I shipped them out. I think it was the day after I ordered from Clover.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Those should be really dark boys.

The roo that I posted the three pics of is named Fudge too!

My son named him Fudge because of all the brown he had in his beard when he was younger.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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She's a dark little Fav hen They're curious little buggers, I love em

So do you think she will lighten up or is she always going to be dark?

Looks like I'll be getting some hatching eggs from Cloverleaf especially after seeing her rooster picture. I want a LF rooster that is calm and more docile than what I've had in the past and in looks alone he's at the top of the chart!

Aw, thanks.

He's not as big as I'd like, but the other roo that's in the breeding pen is HUGE.

Yeah, she'll stay dark. The color on the girls doesn't change as drastically as it does on the boys. If they have a little smut in their beards as youngsters sometimes they will moult it out, but not that much, she will stay really dark. She might be great for a mahogany project though....