Faverolles Thread

[thechickonthehill]

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

No, he's not working on partridge yet - maybe later!

 

[fancychickenlover]

No I refer to mine as copper Salmon because you have your light salmon and your dark salmon! Right? I call mine copper salmon because they are copper colored the females that is! And my males are just like my avatar! That is my breeding rooster! So i just call my hens copper salmon because they are a copper color!

 

[fancychickenlover]

Sorry again that was in response to Dick Boulger!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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My son has decided he wants to start working on bantam partridge Favs this year...

 

[sandiklaws]

They will be very pretty. I have always loved the partridge colored birds... might even work on that myself someday in LF

 

[faverolles]

No I refer to mine as copper Salmon because you have your light salmon and your dark salmon! Right? I call mine copper salmon because they are copper colored the females that is! And my males are just like my avatar! That is my breeding rooster! So i just call my hens copper salmon because they are a copper color!

Would like to visit and see your birds.
Dick

 

[elizmartin]

My son has decided he wants to start working on bantam partridge Favs this year...

That sounds Awesome, Kool, , ,eliz

 

[chickmanna]

BUMP-

I know you all don't want to spend a lot of time discussing hatchery favs, but a quick answer would be appreciated. Is the size difference and the coloring difference in these chicks due mainly to being hatchery stock? And is the feathering difference meaningful at their young age?

BTW- Little one with bad eye is fine now, just had overabundance of cheek fuzz which has been cleaned up and trimmed. "She"'s fine now.

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?

 

[thechickonthehill]

BUMP-

I know you all don't want to spend a lot of time discussing hatchery favs, but a quick answer would be appreciated. Is the size difference and the coloring difference in these chicks due mainly to being hatchery stock? And is the feathering difference meaningful at their young age?

BTW- Little one with bad eye is fine now, just had overabundance of cheek fuzz which has been cleaned up and trimmed. "She"'s fine now.

For what its worth, I have noticed that of the Fav chicks from "my" line (which the first rooster I got originated from Meyer Hatchery), the pullets feather in MUCH quicker than the cockerels. This year I have chicks that I have hatched from another breeder's line to compare to and I have noticed, so far, that the chicks from his line don't feather in nearly as quickly as my chicks do, neither cockerels nor pullets. Now, I haven't hatched a lot of chicks from the other line yet this year, but that is what I am noticing so far.

 

[fancychickenlover]

Would like to visit and see your birds.
Dick

I have picures of some of my birds on my profile! I would also love to see all of your birds I've heard from alot of people on here that you have some really nice birds!