Salmon Faverolles
Dual purpose · France · 🌱 Beginner friendly
The Salmon Faverolles is the class clown of the chicken world: bearded, muffed, five-toed, feather-footed, and endlessly enthusiastic about whatever you're doing. Bred near the French village of Faverolles to keep Paris in winter eggs, it still lays gamely through the cold months.
Eggs per year
150–200
Egg color
Light brown
Egg size
Medium
Hen weight
6–7.5 lbs
Temperament
Comically sweet and chatty
Broodiness
Sometimes broody
Did you know?
Faverolles hens are so gentle they routinely land at the bottom of a mixed flock's pecking order — many keepers keep several together so they have allies.
Is the Salmon Faverolles right for your flock?
Expect roughly 150–200 light brown eggs a year from a healthy hen in her prime — production dips during molt and the short days of winter, and eases off as she ages. Planning space? A Salmon Faverolles hen runs 6–7.5 lbs, so size the coop with our coop size calculator and estimate the feed bill with the feed cost calculator.
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