I'm so excited! My faverolles will be here in just a few days time. Any advice on faverolle raising?

[Eggette]

I can't hardly wait! I have ordered 1 salmon faverolle rooster and 6 hens from Meyer and this will be my first time experience with this beautiful French breed. I have loved and wanted this breed of chicken since the first time I saw it and read about it in Murray Mcmurray's catalog and that was quite a few years ago. And now I'm finally going to get to see their beauty for myself!
Any advice though on raising these beauties. I know they are quite different from other standard breeds, having a fifth toe and feathers down the leg.
And if anyone has pictures they can show me of their faverolles, I would love to see them, especially any pics of the roosters, they are the most gorgeous creatures I have ever seen.
For days now, I have been looking up any videos, articles, breeder information or pictures I can find about them on the internet. Any sudjestions?

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Good luck with them! They sure are an "egg"-cellent breed! LOL

When they first arrive, check for pasty butt, give them water and keep them warm.

Here's a link too.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...ks-the-first-60-days-of-raising-baby-chickens

Goof luck with them!

 

[sumi]

Here's an entire thread devoted to this beautiful breed where you can talk to other owners/breeders and ask questions:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/268082/faverolles-thread/0_30

Enjoy!

 

[CollegeChicken]

Faverolles have a reputation for being pretty delicate as chicks and easy targets of bullying when in mixed flocks....dip their beaks when you first get them and provide a 99*fahrenheit basking spot, let them thermo-regulate themselves....also providing bright lighting encourages the chicks to eat and drink..sometimes I will sprinkle a few crumbs of chick starter into the water bowl...seeing the speck of grain in the water dish gives the chicks a point of interest to look at within the bowl, often times effectively causing them to investigate/discover the water bowl

 

[Pinkaboo]

My faverolles have become surrogate mummies to my two sablepoot cockerels
They let them snuggle under them to sleep
Lovely calm pretty birds

Not sure they are for me though, think I'm going to put them back in auction
Sometimes too nice and sweet can be dull
My other issue is smelly runny poo! Just the faverolles!
I was hoping it was just a stress thing from the auction
They are five weeks old now and still having runny pood

 

[keesmom]

Here's an entire thread devoted to this beautiful breed where you can talk to other owners/breeders and ask questions:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/268082/faverolles-thread/0_30

Enjoy!

This is a good place to start. There's 1500+ pages of info and pictures for you to check out. We can help you sex them too when they are old enough.

I haven't taken any new pictures in a while but here are some old ones of my birds

And some other colored Faverolles (I no longer have bantams)

 

[Eggette]

Thanks guy's for the links and all the helpful advice. I have been trying to scratch the surface of that second thread for a few days now, but with over 1500 pages! Laughs! it will be a while.
Wow! Your Faverolles Keesmom are so beautiful! I can't wait until mine get to that age!

 

[rc4u]

i have had them a few times..this year i got 5 more and only two left as the great horned owls find them easy pickens...and the ro and hen always stay in the coop with the other two bottom of pecking order chickens...the hen always has this strange sound when i get there...it is not chicken clucking more like ohhohhhhoggggg... and all ive had do it after there about 3 months old...they are not fighters for any pecking order position..they just go to the bottom....they dont get picked on so much or have missing feathers its just they are content to not get involved and know where to be to not get in trouble...they do look cool and i probly wont get them again unless i get a bunch of them...i have 24 birds now and two left of the favs..

 

[Eggette]

They shipped out today and are on their way! Oh I can't hardly wait!

I'm so excited about them, I have never been so excited as I am about these adorable Faverolles. The only time I came close to feeling like this was when I went to meet the guy who sold me my first flock of chickens - the Buff Orpingtons who I still have to this day and they turned out to be just wonderful in every way. So maybe this is an good early sign that I'm fixing to fall in love all over again with another batch of chickens.

Oh this is torture.

I won't see them until tomorrow evening, since I have to be at work first thing in the morning. No worries though, my dad is gonna pick them up for me. But oh I wish I could have went with him and got them from the post man myself.

Oh well...sigh! Their coming!!!!!!!!!!!

And I can't wait!

 

[Eggette]