Salmon Faverolles

The salmon Faverolles is the best-known color variety of the Faverolles chicken, a French dual-purpose breed developed around the village of Faverolles in the late nineteenth century. It is recognized by its beard and muffs, feathered shanks, five toes, and broad, deep body. The salmon pattern is strongly sexed in appearance: hens are soft salmon, cream, and wheaten shades, while males carry darker breast and tail plumage with lighter hackles and saddle. Standard-size and bantam Faverolles are both kept, mostly for exhibition, backyard eggs, and heritage flock interest.

These are calm, heavy chickens that usually fit better in gentle mixed flocks than in pens with very assertive breeds. Feathered feet call for dry bedding and mud control, especially in winter, and single combs can need attention in severe cold. Hens lay light brown to tinted eggs at a moderate rate and may sit, but they are not commercial layers. Breeding salmon Faverolles requires selection beyond color: extra toes, leg feathering, beard fullness, body width, and male-female color balance all affect whether chicks mature into true Faverolles type.

Colors: Barred, Birchen, Black, Blue, Brown, Buff, Columbian, Crele, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Gold, Gold Laced, Laced, Lavender, Mille Fleur, Mottled, Partridge, Penciled, Porcelain, Red, Silver, Silver Laced, Spangled, Splash, Wheaten, White