Put them on Craig's List! I did and now have a roo guy that takes all my roos as soon as I am able to sex them. It sure saves on feed!
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Gorgeous coloring on both roosters. Where do you live? I'll buy them.These birds are about 12 weeks old. They've been displaying, wings down, beak to beak at times, and their combs look rather large for such young birds...to me. Also the tail feathers growing long. I'm figuring they must be roosters but these are my 1st Swedish Flowering Hens, so I wanted to get the opinion of those more familiar with the breed. Thanks.
[COLOR=800080]Purely based on color, I love the 2nd one. But I would wait to see how they grow out more because they will change so much over the next months...[/COLOR]
The second looks to have some blue. Dreamy!
I had an incubator emergency (also known as fiance's kids sneaking down to candle the eggs in the middle of the night and leaving the incubator door ajar on day 19) Out of 50 eggs, 3 hatched, well, I would call it more of a c-section. At any rate, I was in such a panic, that I did not even look at the breed penciled onto the eggs. Out of the 3, 2 were my own Orpingtons, and the third was a "who knows". I syringe fed it for 3 days, keeping it and it's "stuff" wrapped in a wet washcloth in the incubator. Miracle of miracles, it survived. The only problem is, it was one of the rare breed eggs. I thought at first it was a barbanter, but as I looked through all the pictures of your beautiful birds, I am more leaning toward the crested swedish flower hen. Your thoughts? I am an Orpington girl through and through, I purchased the eggs and incubated them for someone else.
nope. not an sfh with legs that color... shorter beak too than typical for sfh. more like a 'dotte's head/beak but yes, it loos like it'll be crested.I had an incubator emergency (also known as fiance's kids sneaking down to candle the eggs in the middle of the night and leaving the incubator door ajar on day 19) Out of 50 eggs, 3 hatched, well, I would call it more of a c-section. At any rate, I was in such a panic, that I did not even look at the breed penciled onto the eggs. Out of the 3, 2 were my own Orpingtons, and the third was a "who knows". I syringe fed it for 3 days, keeping it and it's "stuff" wrapped in a wet washcloth in the incubator. Miracle of miracles, it survived. The only problem is, it was one of the rare breed eggs. I thought at first it was a barbanter, but as I looked through all the pictures of your beautiful birds, I am more leaning toward the crested swedish flower hen. Your thoughts? I am an Orpington girl through and through, I purchased the eggs and incubated them for someone else.