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Hi Y'all! Free Swedish Flower Hen rooster to a stockpot or a good home. He used to be the friendliest bird ever so we kept him to go with our hen but now he has turned very aggressive (even goes after my 6'3" husband) and we have small children so we just cannot keep him. Don't want him to...

Wow! I would fall right in line with your ratio. 1 hen, 2 roos for my SFH. I looked very very closely at the primary feather length immediately after hatching and they were all the same for these 3. They would have all been "female" by their feathers. Only on my Americana did I have feather...

On feather sexing... Hi Y'all, I'm the one who tried to feather sex my chicks as soon as they hatched last June. No success! It totally did not work with my Swedish Flower Hens or Americaunas (I can never spell that right). I guess they have to be bred for it after all! Well, at least I...

The 3 Roos I had were almost funny when they fought. They would fight once a month. When you finally rehomed them, they had had 3 fights. They were all nasty fights. And even the "losers" would keep fighting once they were back in the coop - the one would sit up on the bar and pick at the...

Wow! That's a lot of information! But you definitely answered my questions very well. :) I can see why people would not try to inbreed the lavender gene. Well, unless I can find a non-crowing lavender roo (don't want to bug the neighbors), or maybe borrow someone's next year for a just a...

Thanks! Glad you like them!

Thanks so much for the offer! I doubt we'll be hatching more this year, but who knows! And any of y'all who live locally and helped in this endeavor are welcome to stop by and see the chicks if you're interested, just PM me... but of course you have plenty of chickens of your own!

Wow, well that would be nice! I'll try not to hold my breath, though. However getting 9 hens would be fabulous after getting NO hens last year!

Yes, I had never heard of them either until Chiques offered me some eggs a month ago when I was looking to set my broody. They sounded really neat! Here is some info: http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/swedish-flower-hens/ Apparently they're not always easy to hatch but I was...

OK, more questions: 1. "Blue" looks the same as "lavender"? Or is the coloration slightly different? Is the term used just to denote genetics? My lavendar-looking chicks do look slightly different from each other, with one especially leaning more toward a charcoal coloring than light...

Too bad! Probably my experiment won't work, then! Thanks!

True. I did the observation for the feather sexing pretty much as soon as they were born. I only had 3 chicks (all black Americauna or EE) with all the same length Primaries. All the others had long-short-long-short Primaries. I put a dot of white paint on the heads of the ones with the same...

Very interesting! I think I understand. :) Some (at least 1) of the Easter Eggers look very "lavendar" also. I hope I'll be able to sort out the EE from the A as they get older because right now they all look very similar! And yes, I'm going to have to mark this hen so I don't...

And thanks for the transport with the SFH! I am so delighted with them!

Hatch day was Wed. to Thurs. this week! I finally have a moment to post some pics! Thanks to Troyer and Chiques Chicks for the eggs! Of the 7 Americauna, 3 Easter Eggers, and 5 Swedish Flower Hens, we had a great hatch rate: Mama pushed 1 SFH out of the nest day 1 after I set them (I guess...