Feathered Fannies

05/05/2024

First batch set Friday night, eggs are flowing good so hoping for high fertility rates 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Hatching both faverolles and malines here.

05/16/2023

Sorry for the radio silence over here for those who are waiting on Salmon Faverolles, my first hatch of the season didn’t go to well due to incubator issues, I’m not a very reliable hand turner lol but I have two incubators currently running so am expecting 🐣 in two weeks and have enough excess coming in now to offer 🥚🥚

I’ll be going through my waiting list in the coming days but feel free to shoot me a message!

03/11/2023

Set a batch of Faverolles 🥚 last night to check fertility.
Currently getting 2-3 🥚 a day from my lovely ladies.
Shoot me a message if you’re looking to add some of these goofy fluffers to your coop this season.

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05/01/2022

First hatch of the season, first day out of the incubator 😊 (salmon faverolles)

04/25/2022

Little behind this year having the first hatch go into lockdown today, but fertility is looking good and lots of 🥚🥚 coming. Salmon faverolles and barnyard (green) hatching available, will deliver/meet, prefer no visitors this year with AI risk

11/09/2021

Been a bit quiet around here, after a long recovery from mites and molting my ladies are starting to give me these beautiful gifts again! Speckles are my favorite! 😍

05/12/2021

My cream puffs!
Aka the “golden girls”

05/04/2021

Magicfly / Janoel hack to double capacity.
Make it hold 20 large eggs instead of 9!

Yes this means you have to turn them manually but the wood blocks make that EASY, just tilt the whole unit 2-3 times a day and lay it flat on day 18, they’ll hatch right in the egg flat standing upright which seems to make it easier for them to unzip and makes clean up a breeze.

I love my cheap little incubators!

Couple notes:
-Cut a flat to fit
-Remove the turner post or you’ll have to leave the space of 4 eggs (capacity reduced to 16)
-I like to keep a towel wrapped around my incubators so they don’t have to work so hard to keep heat in my chilly basement
-Dry hatching always works better for me
-an external thermometer/hygrometer is also recommended

05/03/2021

One of my Favaucanas sometimes lays these beautiful deep sage green eggs! They’re lovely, I usually get light minty green eggs out of them (egg on the left) so I love the odd surprise 🙂

04/15/2021

Setting up for year 4, these beauties have been separated as the best of my stock to selectively breed with size, body type and coloring in mind to better my entire flock for next year.

Salmon Faverolles probably have the most exhaustive list of possible “flaws” from a show perspective, from pointed tails to the positioning of the toes they face a lot of scrutiny!!

04/15/2021

Looking for ready lay hens?

04/12/2021

Got the boys to help me over the weekend to clean and fix up an old makeshift coop to put it back into rotation 😁

04/11/2021

13 little Malines cuties went to a new brooder yesterday, looking like a lot of ladies this year 😁🤞🏼

04/07/2021

Built myself a hatcher 😁
Cost me $25 and a bit of junk lying around (thanks to whoever threw the plexiglass in the ditch) hoping to keep my incubators clean and working while rotating batches to finish here.

Materials:
A styrofoam cooler, I had one from LeBrun Seafoods fish delivery (amazing!)
Lamp kit from Canadian tire
Usb computer fan from Amazon
Plexiglass from the ditch
25w light bulb
Bathroom adhesive caulk
Metal lid from a large jar (water reservoir)
Hardware cloth

Will be testing it out in the next few days, hopefully I don’t burn down my house 🤞🏼🤞🏼

04/06/2021

When people ask how many chickens I have...

03/27/2021

These Salmon Faverolles chicks are starting to show their colors. 💙💜

A cockerel (male) left and a pullet (female) right for comparison.

This is typically when the pullets would go to their new homes (2 weeks old).

03/17/2021

Keeping cozy on these cold nights!
This is my first full Faverolles batch of the year, set 16 eggs, 14 made it to lockdown and 12 hatched 🐣

These chicks are all staying with me for a week or so to fill pullet orders.

03/17/2021

More eggs off on the bus to New Brunswick in the morning 😊

03/13/2021

Sneak peek to what’s currently happening in my basement! 👀
Getting a little crowded in there, first Faverolles of the year, I’ve missed those poofy cheeks!!

#🐣

03/13/2021

Anyone remember the oopsie from the blue egg, the probable Ameraucana/malines mix? It’s turning out rather cute! Hoping it’s a she so she can stay!

Almost 8 weeks old, and yes still in my basement garage 🤦🏽‍♀️

03/12/2021

Favaucanas cooking 🍳
Day 6, 100% fertility.
Hatch #5 of 2021

Hoping there’s some ladies in here, many coops are waiting for them!

03/10/2021

Packing up a few dozen nuggets to ship to New Brunswick via Maritime Bus in the morning.
🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣

03/08/2021

The watering hole, a local favorite! 🍻

03/02/2021

My pastel rainbow eggs 😍
They remind me of giant mini Cadbury eggs 😊

03/01/2021

Why do people fancy faverolles so much?
Many reasons!! Besides eggs.... Their temperament, their goofyness, they LOVE people, they are like little lost puppies that harass you, talk your ear off and will steal your dinner right out of your hands haha.

Here’s what happens when I walk out the back door. I’m not calling them and I don’t have treats, but they come running, every time, it’s pretty cute ☺️

02/20/2021

Favaucanas.. the doodles of poultry lol
These are the result of mixing my Wheaten Ameraucana hens with a Faverolles rooster.

They are essentially Easter Eggers, a mix that lays those lovely minty eggs. But as both are “wheaten” coloring and sexable by color, they retain the ability to be sexed early even as a mix.

They vary a bit in coloring but the females are always some shade of beige and the males black. Some of them end up with 5 toes and some 4 some 5 on one foot and 4 on the other lol

02/15/2021

Seriously loving these minty green eggs 😍

How old were you when you found out eggs actually came in colors other than brown and white?
Lol I was way older than I should’ve been... like 30🤦🏽‍♀️

02/13/2021

Hoping these bright red combs mean eggs soon! While cute, fun, and friendly birds they definitely slack off in the office!

02/09/2021

21 days VS 1 day. They grow so quick!! These *should* be pullets.

02/09/2021

Hatch #3 of the year set, first hatch in the new bator, mostly maline with some EEs. Should be ready the first week of March 🙂