We got a 3 week old Salmon Faverolle from a place where it was being raised in a crowd of chicks of different breeds and ages. We got it to provide some company to two day old chicks (a Buff Orp/Leghorn and a bantam Silkie). The three have all bonded well, but the Faverolle doesn't seem quite right. She displays an unfortunate combination of flightiness and clumsiness, sometimes jumping straight up in the air and landing on top of one of our other chickens for no apparent reason. As a result, the bigger ones peck her every time she comes close. She also has the oddest voice, her calls being remarkably variable but sounding nothing like any chicken I've heard. She sometimes sounds like a creaky gate, sometimes like a whistling kettle, sometimes like a distant bird of prey, and sometimes like an autumn songbird practicing its subsong! Does anyone have any ideas whether this is just the breed (she's our first Fav) or whether it might be something else?
