#salmon faverolles

[birdgenetics]

Salmon Faverolles

Genotype e^Wh/e^WhS/SMh/Mh

This guy got best in show in the junior show at Red Cedar Showdown!

Edited to add this picture of a lovely female!

[ileolai]

It's dangerous to go alone! take this.

[embyrinitalics]

How are your hens doing? Did you ever get your salmon faverolles? 🐥😁

First of all, this is the SWEETEST ASK I have EVER RECEIVED.

And second of all, YES I DID!!

Their names are Ducky and Snickerdoodle and they are so ridiculous 🤌✨

THIS IS DOODLE

She is the chillest little bean I’ve ever had. I don’t know if it’s just her nature to be so trusting or if she’s just really stupid. 🤔 She is a ball of fluff and only seems to notice that I’ve picked her up when she takes three steps midair and doesn’t get anywhere.

THIS IS DUCKY

She takes naps like this a lot and I always think she’s dead 🤷🏻‍♀️ She’s at the bottom of the pecking order and is terrified of everything. But sometimes if I hold still for a few seconds she forgets to be scared of me and climbs all over me like I’m an inanimate object, so maybe they’re both idiots. 😂

Aside from their doofy personalities lets discuss more reasons why Salmon Faverolles are THE BEST.

They have FEATHERED FEETS and EXTRA TOES!

They’re ready to STRIKE A POSE at a moment’s notice!

And they make all the big chickens JEALOUS!

But mostly I just love their cute tufted faces and docile demeanor.

Bonus footage of Walter’s first time babysitting:

Thank you for letting me talk about my lil ladies. They bring me a lot of joy.

On an unrelated note, you guys may have noticed that besides the occasional reblog I haven’t had much of an online presence, and I have like 20 comments in my ao3 inbox I haven’t responded to (I am so sorry T_T).

I’ve been feeling REALLY not myself recently. My relationship with things I love and that I feel are a big part of my identity—including writing—had shifted drastically over the last four months from something I enjoyed to something that terrified me. And it happened with too many things at once and too strongly to be a coincidence. So I’ve been doing a mental health check, and am looking into finding a therapist I like to try to figure out what’s going on. Cuz it kind of does feel like components of my identity are deteriorating and I sometimes catch my thoughts turning real dark.

So all that to say that I am enjoying my native plant garden and my chickens and letting things like an online presence fall by the wayside for a bit. But I’m still here and I still see you and appreciate SO MUCH all the nice comments you’ve left, even though it’s taking me a very long time get myself together to get on ao3 and answer them 💚🍃✨

Love you babes 😘 Keep smiling!

[ainawgsd]

Fun fact, we can tell this chicken is changing from a hen to a rooster in two ways. First, this color variety is sexually dimorphic. Hens look like this:

And roosters look like this:

Secondly, males have long, thin, pointed hackle (and saddle) feathers, while hens have broader, rounded hackles

so i'm in this backyard chickens group on reddit and someone just discovered their hen is transitioning and everyone is stoked

anyway in case you didn't know chickens will sometimes spontaneously f2m and it's pretty cool

[simplepotatofarmer]

clovis says hi!

[angrybatart]

BAWKtober Day 1 - Maple

I thought a Salmon Favorelles chicken would work well with this one! Meant to give her maple leaves for the foot feathers, but I am apparently bad at drawing plants...

[homeofhousechickens]

Look at how much they have grown.

[piyozilla]

So recently my family got some new chicks; 3 buff orpingtons and 3 salmon faverolles.

One of the faverolle chicks has 4 toes on both feet, one has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other, and one has 5 toes on both feet!

[eatyourdamnpears]

got the chickies today 🥺

[inkedbantam]

Struggling to get my will to draw again honestly.

Here are some chooks for your time. Left is a bantam cochin, right a salmon faverolle

[coneygoil]

Bask in all her potato glory

[simplepotatofarmer]

yeah ;__;

Take The Quiz!!! and find out 🐔

[ileolai]

entering my eccentric old gay man with a pet rooster that eats cake phase

[vampawre]

The girls are still getting acclimated to their new coop, but Peach got to explore a bit with heavy supervision.

She would occasionally look up to make sure she was close to us, and if she had wandered too far for her own standards, she'd hurry back over to us.

The sweet little lady didn't even struggle when I picked her up to go back in.

[simplepotatofarmer]

dream (chicken) is so lovely and angelic <- lying she's a molty girl

[acegodzilla]

here take these too

*hands you this*