Faverolles chicken
The Faverolles is a French heavy breed with a beard, muffs, feathered feet and five toes. Once a utility bird, it is now kept mainly for exhibition.
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The Faverolles is a pure-bred chicken breed in the PCGB Soft Feather Heavy class. Its origin is given as Faverolles, France. It appears on the RBST Watchlist as a priority breed, so keepers of pure stock help conserve it.
It is kept in large and bantam forms. Recognised colours: Black, Laced Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Ermine, Salmon, White. Typical adult weights: bantam cock about 1130–1360 g and bantam hen about 907–1133 g.
Expect roughly 160–200 eggs a year, with tinted shells. It is mainly kept for eggs and for exhibition or as an ornamental bird.
Compiled from poultryclub.org, rbst.org.uk, poultrykeeper.com, en.wikipedia.org. See sources
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Identity
- Species
- Chicken
- Type
- Pure breed
- PCGB class
- Soft Feather Heavy
- Origin
- Faverolles, France
- Kept for
- Eggs, Exhibition or ornamental
History
It was developed in the 1860s around Houdan and Faverolles in north-central France; dealers named the crossbred market birds after the village. It reached the UK in the 1880s–90s (Wikipedia gives 1886), and a British club formed by 1900. British birds were selected for higher tails and split from the French type around 1905. Bantams followed in 1925.
Appearance
UK colours: Black, Laced Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Ermine, Salmon and White. The singular is also 'Faverolles'.
Recognised colours
Black, Laced Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Ermine, Salmon, White
Size and weight
- Forms
- Large, Bantam
- Bantam cock
- 1130–1360 g
- Bantam hen
- 907–1133 g
Eggs
- Eggs a year
- 160–200
- Egg colour
- Tinted
Temperament
- Keeping notes
- Copes well with both confinement and free range; it tolerated early battery cages better than the Houdan.
Hardiness
Not recorded yet.
Broodiness
Not recorded yet.
Flying
Not recorded yet.
Suitability
Not recorded yet.
Conservation status (RBST)
A priority breed on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust Watchlist, listed as British Faverolles.
Breed club
- British Faverolles Society, breed-specific · Website
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