The Salmon Faverolle is a french chicken breed developed in the 1860s in north-central France.
Salmon Faverolles are classified as a heavy breed and have beards,
feathered feet, and five toes per foot, rather than the usual four.
Faverolles are well adapted both to confinement or free range. When
battery cages began to be used at the very beginning of the
twentieth-century, Salmon Faverolle tolerated the close confinement better
than the Houdan breed. Faverolles was the primary breed that
produced eggs for the Paris market during the early part of the century.
Although primarily kept today as an ornamental and exhibition breed, it
remains an excellent layer, as well as a fine meat chicken.
common color of the Salmon Faverolle is Salmon. The plumage of salmon females is mainly brown
and creamy white. The males are darker, with black, brown, and