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Mt.cleod Farm For the love of chickens and faverolles.

I didn’t intend on breeding blue Faverolles, but here is one of my first generation of blues!
03/01/2026

I didn’t intend on breeding blue Faverolles, but here is one of my first generation of blues!

Snow day on the mountain!Faverolles are a great choice for cold climates as their small comb and wattles reduce risk fro...
13/07/2025

Snow day on the mountain!

Faverolles are a great choice for cold climates as their small comb and wattles reduce risk from cold damage. The flip side is they can struggle a little more in the heat.

People often get concerned with cold temperatures in the coop for their flock. Their feathers have excellent insulating properties and add in a warm roost mate to snuggle against.

In terms of coop construction for Tasmanian conditions, it needs to be both draft free and well ventilated. If you can design both of those elements into your coop, additional insulation or external heating is not required.

Adopted! Off to be company for a lonely Polish hen.Faverolles mixed breed pair of pullets
26/06/2025

Adopted! Off to be company for a lonely Polish hen.

Faverolles mixed breed pair of pullets

19mo hen and 4mo pullet still available Edit: 3x salmon pullets gone pending pick up Three salmon coloured pullets that ...
26/05/2025

19mo hen and 4mo pullet still available

Edit: 3x salmon pullets gone pending pick up

Three salmon coloured pullets that were hatched last year. One leaky coloured blue 4mo pullet and a salmon faverolles hen that was hatched late 2023.

Salmon Faverolles are not the best problem solvers. They’re never the ones to somehow escape your secure pen. They’re th...
25/05/2025

Salmon Faverolles are not the best problem solvers. They’re never the ones to somehow escape your secure pen. They’re the last the work out how to fly over a livestock fence, and if they do it’s only because there was snacks on the other side! They have a stomach for a brain.

However, this lack of cognitive ability does turn into a strength in the correct context. This makes them a perfect candidate for a career as a backyard pet as neurons are never fired at the possibility of greener pastures. Except if your neighbours have better snacks.

Yesterday I heard cheeping from the wrong direction, and I find Grandma Faverolles x welsummer with three new chicks. As...
19/01/2025

Yesterday I heard cheeping from the wrong direction, and I find Grandma Faverolles x welsummer with three new chicks. As ravens find little chicks a tasty treat, I needed to get them into a safer place. I manage to coax them into a little Chook tractor with food.

This morning I find one of the chicks had squeezed out a gap and looked like it had shed its mortal coil. I pick it up and it’s as cold as a stone but still mostly floppy so hadn’t been dead long. It’s likely only been out this morning as it has a full crop. But then it gives a ‘death gasp’.

So, down my top it goes. It’s only breathing is intermittent gasps at long intervals, so I don’t hold out much hope. Then its gasps gradually become more frequent and turn into regular breaths. It still feels so cold against my skin. I dither around for 2hr doing chores one handed, holding it so it doesn’t slid straight through my shirt. It slowly becomes responsive and eventually can hold its tiny head up by itself. When starts cheeping when disturbed and I can see it’s able to stand again, I let it go back with its family.

Hopefully, no more intervention is required!

These two lovely ladies where very accepting. Not only to co-parent, but also to adopt these chicks that weren’t their o...
19/11/2024

These two lovely ladies where very accepting. Not only to co-parent, but also to adopt these chicks that weren’t their own.

Often, day old chicks are put under broody hens instead of using a brooder. Which can work very well as hens are much more energy efficient! Not every broody hen will accept baby chicks, but these two accepted this brood when they were just over 2 weeks old.

Such good ladies!

I’m not entirely sure what I interrupted!
18/11/2024

I’m not entirely sure what I interrupted!

11/11/2024

Built for comfort, not speed!

Baby season! I lost the whole incubator of eggs in a power outage due to windy weather a month ago, so I’ve made up for ...
19/10/2024

Baby season!

I lost the whole incubator of eggs in a power outage due to windy weather a month ago, so I’ve made up for it!

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