Two Breeds of Chickens and Hens?

[wildflowerrun]

I guess this is why it can't work unless you know the genotype of the chickens in question :/

 

[keesmom]

The biggest issue is if the SF carries any recessives for slate legs, four toes or no feathering.

Where did you get your Faverolles? I've never heard of a salmon Fav ever throwing slate legs.

 

[wildflowerrun]

I haven't gotten them yet, and I'm getting them from Sand Hill. This is all theoretical, btw. If they shouldn't ever do it, then great.

I don't know much of anything about chicken genetics, I just know in rabbits (my reference point), you can have a pedigree going back 8+ generations, with faith it's pure further than that, and still get a bad color from a line of animals all the same color and where that color has no business being.

Not sure if chickens can carry recessivees that easily as well, but I would assume so since it's all genetics.

I also don't know if odd colors have cropped up in Sand Hill's lines.

 

[keesmom]

Sand Hill also has mahogany Faverolles, but those chicks should also be yellow. I do not know if they get recessive whites either.

This is what they look like (these are not Sand Hill's birds). These are the best I have seen.

 

[wildflowerrun]

Very pretty!

I know I'll be getting the Salmons from Sand Hill. I'm getting another, separate trio of Salmon Faverolles from a breeder, but I will have those in their own coop.

I have no worries about picking out the pure SFs. What I'm more worried about is being able to pick out the pure Ameraucanas from the SF rooster over Ameraucana hens. If the Sand Hill chickens don't carry for slate, four toes or feathering (or at least one of those), I shouldn't have a problem.

I'm just trying to plan out breeding pens and coops for next year. And it's a matter of if I want to keep two lines of the Salmon Faverolles going or not.

 

[keesmom]

All you can do is look for leg feathering and extra nails.

You could have a market for pullets resulting from the Ameraucana male x Faverolles hens - homemade Favaucanas.

 

[lazy gardener]

Is there a reason why you don't separate the 2 breeds while collecting eggs??? Your chicks will be much more sellable that way.

 

[wildflowerrun]

I'm not doing it, at least especially not this year, and if I did, I wouldn't sell anything as pure that I wasn't 110% sure was pure.

I was thinking about it as a theoretical question/experiment. I will probably experiment for my own purposes, or just keep the faverolles hens in the pen and that's it, easy and done.

Either way, it doesn't apply to pens for this year, or at least not until the end of the year, in which case I will have the coop space to keep them separate anyway.