Faverolles Thread

[sfavorelle]

I only have two pics they are the ones I posted i will try and take a few more this weekend. I have to work twelve hour days the next two days so won't get to it til the weekend. As far as weights I am sure I can do that also, how would you suggest i weigh them?

 

[chickmanna]

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Thanks Jeanine. As you may remember there were 4 of these. One with hardly any black fuzz and another one who's coloring was in between these two that I kept. I picked these two to keep based on the rate they were feathering in, and even though dark, they had less black in the primaries than the other two. By now, I was pretty sure they were pullets

Thanks for confirming.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I only have two pics they are the ones I posted i will try and take a few more this weekend. I have to work twelve hour days the next two days so won't get to it til the weekend. As far as weights I am sure I can do that also, how would you suggest i weigh them?

Can you try re-posting the two pics? They don't show up....

 

[chickmanna]

I have been reading this forum thread for two straight days and have been so indoctrinated to the many wonderful traits of this breed that I couldn't pass up these three - the last three of a batch of SFs that came into the local Wilco Feed store last week.

They seem really small for their age, and one has one weird eye, but I couldn't resist. I'm sure as the last three they are not the best of the original bunch. They are from Privett Hatchery and are supposed to be pullets.

I noticed a big difference in the feather color and the amount of feathering on one of them. Is this an indication that this may be a cockerel? I brought it home thinking this might be the case, having read that this breed could be sexed as soon as primary feathers come in, by the color of the feathers.

Left - Pullet? Right-Cockerel?




I had read that sexing SFs very early was possible, but this did not hold true in the chicks I hatched from breeders. Could it be that the hatchery stock is different in that respect?

 

[sfavorelle]

Here's another try to posting my pics

 

[sfavorelle]

and the other one

 

[sandiklaws]

Hun try downloading them to your device and posting them from it. This method doesn't deem to be working.

 

[faverolles]

Dick, can I entice you down to our show on May 19th? Augusta, NJ. Maybe you could throw a couple girls in your car for me.

It would depend if I could get the time off from work. I'll have to see.
Dick

 

[faverolles]

Im breeding large fowl copper salmon Faverolles I do have one white hen though! What size do you breed and what colors?

I never heard of a copper salmon Faverolles....do you mean Mahogany?. Right now my breeding pens consist of 4 pens of large salmons, 1 pen of large blacks, one pen of large blues and my lavender project is a lavender male on 2 black hens, one salmon male on two lavender hens and one salmon lavender male on two salmon hens. In the lavender project all chicks will be 3/4 Faverolles.
In bantams right now I have 2 pens of bantam salmons, 3 pens of bantam whites, one pen of bantam blacks and 2 pens of bantam buff that I'm still working on and one pen where I'm working on the bantam lavender.
I have enough to keep me busy.

 

[sandiklaws]

I never heard of a copper salmon Faverolles....do you mean Mahogany?. Right now my breeding pens consist of 4 pens of large salmons, 1 pen of large blacks, one pen of large blues and my lavender project is a lavender male on 2 black hens, one salmon male on two lavender hens and one salmon lavender male on two salmon hens. In the lavender project all chicks will be 3/4 Faverolles.
In bantams right now I have 2 pens of bantam salmons, 3 pens of bantam whites, one pen of bantam blacks and 2 pens of bantam buff that I'm still working on and one pen where I'm working on the bantam lavender.
I have enough to keep me busy.


Don't you have a partridge in a pear tree at your place too Dick LOL