Blue Faverolles

A variety of the Faverolles

Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying

At a glance

Origin
France
Scientific name
Gallus gallus domesticus
Eggs per year
~180
Egg colour
Tinted
Incubation
21 days
Broodiness
Moderate
Cold hardiness
Hardy
Sizes
Large fowl, Bantam
Purpose
Laying, Meat
Purity
Pure

About the Blue Faverolles

A blue (slate-grey) Faverolles produced by the blue dilution gene acting on black. Because blue is incompletely dominant, a single copy gives this even grey-blue, while breeding blue-to-blue also throws black and splash offspring — so blue does not breed wholly true. A scarcer UK colour, it keeps all the breed's signatures: beard, muffs, feathered legs and the fifth toe, in the same gentle, heavy-soft-feathered frame.

Available clutches

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