Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[GableBabble]

11/18/10​

• stoneunhenged
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Flower hens are a landrace native to Sweden and, to the best of my knowledge, have not been accepted as a breed by any kind of poultry sanctioning body. The best I could come up with were general descriptions of the breed, although if you talk to Swedish hobbyists, they seem comfortable with their ability to recognize purebred flower hens. I assume the best way to ensure you the breed is kept pure is to buy from a reputable breeder who assures that he or she acquired pure birds. There's enough uniformity in the breed where you should often be able to tell whether someone's been introducing foreign DNA. For example, if the eggs a hen produces aren't medium size and a light tan color, probably someone couldn't resist the tempation to add another breed like perhaps some araucana. If the birds have feathers on their legs, ditto.

Also, yesterday flower hen chicks were hatched for the first time in the US!


(Taken from the SFH thread)
I did a small amount of googling and this was all that turned up for leg feathering. From what I read they are not supposed to have leg feathers.

 

[BHep]

11/18/10​

• stoneunhenged
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Flower hens are a landrace native to Sweden and, to the best of my knowledge, have not been accepted as a breed by any kind of poultry sanctioning body. The best I could come up with were general descriptions of the breed, although if you talk to Swedish hobbyists, they seem comfortable with their ability to recognize purebred flower hens. I assume the best way to ensure you the breed is kept pure is to buy from a reputable breeder who assures that he or she acquired pure birds. There's enough uniformity in the breed where you should often be able to tell whether someone's been introducing foreign DNA. For example, if the eggs a hen produces aren't medium size and a light tan color, probably someone couldn't resist the tempation to add another breed like perhaps some araucana. If the birds have feathers on their legs, ditto.

Also, yesterday flower hen chicks were hatched for the first time in the US!


(Taken from the SFH thread)
I did a small amount of googling and this was all that turned up for leg feathering. From what I read they are not supposed to have leg feathers.​

 

[NotAFarm]

Hi All!

So, can someone tell me about feathered feet and SFH? All of my SFH have had feathered feet, so I just assumed that it was a breed thing. But, someone pointed out to me that feathered feet in SFH is actually very rare and wanted to know if it was really a SFH. I am sure it is, I got them from a very reputable trader. How can I respond?

Did you contact the person you got them from and ask about the feathered legs? Do you have photos you could post?

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Aw.

Woke to my hatcher being to hot. Two miracle chicks where still alive, severely glued to the shell becuase of te high heat. Have no idea how they survived te night. I think one will survive, the other still has a lot of yolk. Candled the remaining 16 eggs and they all look like goners. Such a shame. These where AyeUpChucks eggs, plus a few of my own. I had 7 hatch yesterday so its not a complete loss.

 

[NotAFarm]

Good morning everyone!!!!

Happy First Day of Spring!!!!!!​

Mother Nature must not have gotten the memo......12 F here this morning, with a high of 23 F forecast.......

....but the incubator is on!

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Yeah I would suggest some training with food aggression. Your dog sees your kids as part of his pack...kinda like siblings so they show their dominance with them. Where does he sleep at night? Do you let him on the furniture? These are little things that allow dogs to feel superior. When we got our Aussie from the pound she bit my girls a few times...not due to meanness...she was showing her dominance. So she quickly was rerouted to a kennel that we placed in the girls bedroom. They were responsible for letting her out of her kennel in the morning. Then while we watched they also gave her food out of their hands. Soon she realized she was at the bottom of the pecking order. I still watch her around small children because they just make her nervous but my girls are older now so they know how to handle her. You can do the training yourself. :0) atlleast try

Our dog does not sleep on the bed, or allowed on furniture, though he ends up sleeping on the sofa at night.
He does think he is equal to the kids. It's very apparent when my husband comes home from work, everyone flocks to him and starts jumping all over him. The kids and the dog. The dog usually tries to get closest to my husband. I keep telling him he needs to ignore the dog until he greets the kids with hugs and cuddles, then calming say hi to the dog, and leve him alone until he calms down
My husband thinks I am being annoying and too strict. In fact, yesterday, he told me there was nothing wrong with the dog and I was overreacting, and that our son shouldn't have been harassing the dog while he was eating.
Um
Sorry, but I should have to worry about a dog around our kids. The kids are first priority. So, yes, Haydn shouldn't mess with the dog while the dog is eating, but that dog better not ever bite again.
This is going to make training hard. Am fully committed to working on his behaviors, but I know I am not going to get help from my husband.
Maybe I will make them both leave.

Ok I am joking.

Kind of

 

[BHep]

Our dog does not sleep on the bed, or allowed on furniture, though he ends up sleeping on the sofa at night.
He does think he is equal to the kids. It's very apparent when my husband comes home from work, everyone flocks to him and starts jumping all over him. The kids and the dog. The dog usually tries to get closest to my husband. I keep telling him he needs to ignore the dog until he greets the kids with hugs and cuddles, then calming say hi to the dog, and leve him alone until he calms down
My husband thinks I am being annoying and too strict. In fact, yesterday, he told me there was nothing wrong with the dog and I was overreacting, and that our son shouldn't have been harassing the dog while he was eating.
Um
Sorry, but I should have to worry about a dog around our kids. The kids are first priority. So, yes, Haydn shouldn't mess with the dog while the dog is eating, but that dog better not ever bite again.
This is going to make training hard. Am fully committed to working on his behaviors, but I know I am not going to get help from my husband.
Maybe I will make them both leave.

Ok I am joking.

Kind of

I have 13 dogs...12 live in the house. My kids have strict rules... NO ONE in the kitchen while the dogs eat. I trust my dogs..BUT ya never know.

 

[reesepoultry]

I have 13 dogs...12 live in the house. My kids have strict rules... NO ONE in the kitchen while the dogs eat. I trust my dogs..BUT ya never know.

Holy Moly that is a lot of dogs in the house Beth..... Here I am yelling at Darling hubby that the 2 dogs that live indoors needs to go or live outside. I can't stand when it is muddy outside and they come in and then the floor has muddy paw prints all over it that I have to mop up again. Drives me crazy. I don't know how you do it. It is already hard enough fro me to keep the house clean with 4 little ones running around let alone the headache of the dogs too. I could never do that many dogs in my house.

 

[Sahwithchicks]

13 dogs

That's what is going to have to happen. Well, I actually had been feeding him in the kids bathroom to keep the baby away from him while he is eating, but I leave the door open when the baby is elsewhere preoccupied. No more open door.
I have been suiting in the bathroom with him since it happened. Slowly petting him while he eats. He does get tense. I was wondering if he was to growl at me, if I should take the food away, and continue to pet him, then give it back... Or if he growls to just keep letting him eat just ignore the growl and keep petting him?

I want to take away the food to show a growl is not acceptable, but I am worried that taking it would spark his need to protect it

 

[BHep]

Holy Moly that is a lot of dogs in the house Beth..... Here I am yelling at Darling hubby that the 2 dogs that live indoors needs to go or live outside. I can't stand when it is muddy outside and they come in and then the floor has muddy paw prints all over it that I have to mop up again. Drives me crazy. I don't know how you do it. It is already hard enough fro me to keep the house clean with 4 little ones running around let alone the headache of the dogs too. I could never do that many dogs in my house.

Yeah..12 dogs, 5 cats and 5 kids. I have a BIG house..trust me. LOL

And 9 dogs are small.

And my kids sweep and mop...I love giving out chores !!

1 dog is outside...supposed to guard my birds..too bad she will also eat them if giving a chance. She is in a pen adjacent to the barn.

Although....I haven't lost a bird to any other predator since she is around.