The Salmon Faverolles is a French farm breed from the village of Faverolles, built for winter eggs and the table and instantly recognizable by its beard, muffs, feathered legs and fifth toe. Underneath the whiskers is one of the sweetest temperaments in poultry — Faverolles are famously gentle, often submissive, and frequently end up at the bottom of a mixed pecking order, so they do best with equally calm flockmates. Hens keep laying tinted, light-brown eggs through the cold months when most breeds slow down. They dislike close confinement and want ground to scratch on, and that single comb can frostbite in hard cold.
Beginner friendly
Quiet breed
Good with kids
Cold hardy
Broody
Egg colorTinted Off White, Cream
Egg production150–200 / year
TemperamentDocile
BroodinessOccasional
ClimateCold hardy
PurposeEggs, Show
Weight
Large fowl (Standard size)
Hen6–7 lb
Rooster7.5–8.5 lb
Bantam (Miniature size)
Hen1.6 lb
Rooster1.9 lb
How to spot it
CombSingle
Single comb, small
Earlobes
Red, mostly hidden by the muffs
Legs & feet
Five toes, lightly feathered white/pinkish legs; white skin
Plumage
Salmon is the classic — hens are wheat-and-cream with a salmon back, roosters nearly black-and-straw
Look for
Beard and muffs plus five toes plus feathered legs; the hen's pale cream face fluff on a salmon body is unmistakable
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