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I too am a novice regarding development....but another good place to begin is to learn everything about the Favarolle to know what else needs to be maintained to be a Fav. skin color, toes, body type, dual quality meat,comb, beak color, egg color & laying ability, sweetness of temperament, feather type....Black seems to be the universal color variant. Orpingtons seem a good choice.
Janine, why not say black orp to a black bantam fav???? or Black bantam to LF Salmon and keep the Largest???? Also do i remember someone at one time bred LF BBS???????
eliz
The reason I didn't go Orp to bantam Fav right off was because you still have to continue breeding back to pure solid Fav, and then you'd be fighting size a lot longer than if you started with LF Favs to Orps...
But yes, you certainly could just go with a black bantam Fav to a salmon LF and then breed the blue in by going back to the bantams. I really do not know if you could just take a solid blue bantam cock over LF salmon hens and end up with the same results...that sure would be a heck of a lot more direct....Cindy???
Jeanine- sounds much more direct! I imagine this would have to be AI'd???? I guess one could use a unusually large Blue Bantam.
Actually, it would be funny to see a small bantam roo getting free rides on the back of the LF hens.
I'm excited to show my boys this year that I raised, and some of my new pullets.
