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    Helping the Swedish Flower Hen

    I found several people selling eggs on ebay for less than Greenfire was charging. Unfortunately, I ended up with only 2 hens (one of which was sickly and died young) and many roosters. They are beautiful and sweet chickens.
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    Helping the Swedish Flower Hen

    I would be interested in helping. We are trying to get a flock started, but out of four batches of eggs from various parts of the country, only 12 eggs hatched, 10 were roos and one of the females died. We will be looking for more pullets at the Eastern Poultry Congress in January (Springfield...
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    swedish flower hens (roo or pullet?)

    After hatching many eggs this year and ending up with 9 roos and only 2 pullets, I can tell the difference by the behavior. The roos start sparring fairly early and the pullets mostly stand back and watch. Pullets do very little sparring, but the roos think it is a great pass time.
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