Recent content by cheddarbabe

Thank you! They are such a pleasure!! It was pure coincidence we got 4 of them - initially I'd never even heard of them but our local hatcher offered them to us instead of the cream legbars we were initially on the list for because not enough female chicks had hatched. But I'm so glad that we...

Hi everyone! We are new chicken owners and these are our 5 week old Swedish Flower Hens. We got them as sexed chicks (2 day old). Would you guys want to have a look and see if they are indeed pullets? They have a bit of red coming in on their combs but since all of them have it to some degree...

Hi everyone! Thanks for your help! We followed the instructions and had the tape on for 2 days. After taking it off Sunny stumbled around a little but her toes looked much better! It's been more than a week now and she seems to have no issues anymore!

Hi everyone! We are new chicken owners and after much research picked up 4 Swedish flower hen chicks a week ago. They are now a little over a week old. I had a question regarding their coloring. I've seen that the SFH chicks come in brown yellow and black yellow. We have a batch of 4...

Hey everyone! We just picked up our Swedish flower hen chicks this morning and noticed that one of them (Sunny - "Sunflower") has strange toes. They are not straight like the rest and kink off to the side (see foto). The sections that are kinked off still move around (almost floppy) so I think...