Faverolles

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Faverolles are good layers and are gentle and affectionate. In Australia there are keepers of two distinct varieties: The ermine (white with black) and the salmon coloured. Faverolles also have light leg feathering. Faverolles are classified as a heavy breed and have a beard, muffs, feathered feet, and five toes per foot, rather than the usual four. Faverolles are well adapted both to confinement or free range. When battery cages began to be used at the very beginning of the twentieth-century, Faverolles tolerated the close confinement better than the Houdan breed. Although primarily kept today as an ornamental and exhibition breed, it remains an excellent layer, as well as a fine meat chicken. Hens are good winter layers of medium-sized, light brown to pinkish eggs. Some cocks are the quietest of all breeds, and Faverolles are also known for their extreme docility. As a result, they tend to get bullied in a mixed flock for being so gentle and friendly. They thrive in groups with other Faverolles, or perhaps, with other docile breeds such as the Sussex. Because of their gentleness Faverolles have become a popular breed of chicken to keep as a pet, especially for children. They are also enjoying increasing popularity with people who kept small home flocks, who favour dual purpose breeds that are well suited to both egg production and use as meat.

Classification

Soft feather- heavy

Appearance

Faverolles can be several colours, black, laced blue, buff, cuckoo(bluish white barred, with irregular light and dark barred), salmon, ermine. Feverolles are also bearded and have muffs.

Weight

Cock	4.1 – 5.0 Kg
Hen	3.4 – 4.3 Kg

Bantam Variety Faverolles

Rooster	1.1 – 1.4 Kg
Hen	0.9 – 1.1 Kg

Egg Colour

Tinted