Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Bukrub66]

It's a little Giant from Tractor Supply. This will be my 3rd hatch.

 

[THeelChickinKY]

@Bukrub66
Good luck! If you have a good hatch rate, you should get a great assortment of colors with that many. What are you keeping your humidity on? We lowered ours to hover just under 40% last hatch and had over an 80% hatch.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Super excited. Picked up 20 eggs from TxFlower today.

Good luck with your hatch!

Looking forward to seeing chick pics!

 

[Bukrub66]

I'm gonna keep the humidity around 35% then take it to 55% at lockdown.

 

[vpatt]

Here are the only 2 I have left from my first purchase of SFH. I did just make an order for a dozen hatching eggs from a different breeder and lines so hope this will be a better outcome.

So cute!

 

[Alpine Chicken]

Super excited. Picked up 20 eggs today.

Good luck!

Update on my latest hatch of 4, now 10 weeks (starting to get the hatching-itch again, though):
The one I was certain was a girl:


Of course is a boy:


Already trying to make his first attempts at crowing. But the other three, who I was thinking were boys are all girls!
Before:


After:


Before:

After:

 

[KYTinpusher]

Alpine Chicken - Beautiful babies!

 

[Micki]

I am just starting out with SFH's. All of these birds hatched on/around Thanksgiving 2014. The one cockerel and 3 pullets were hatched near Chicago, but the eggs were from Blue House Farm in NC. The other seven, two cockerels and five hens, came from a friend in Wisconsin. They are from Greenfire Farms stock. They are such sweet birds! I live near St. Louis, Missouri. Anyone else close by that has SFH's? I'm looking for a 3rd line for my breeding program!

 

[bluehousefarm]

I am just starting out with SFH's. All of these birds hatched on/around Thanksgiving 2014. The one cockerel and 3 pullets were hatched near Chicago, but the eggs were from Blue House Farm in NC. The other seven, two cockerels and five hens, came from a friend in Wisconsin. They are from Greenfire Farms stock. They are such sweet birds! I live near St. Louis, Missouri. Anyone else close by that has SFH's? I'm looking for a 3rd line for my breeding program!

Nice to see pictures of "my" chicks! Thanks for posting, Micki.

 

[Bukrub66]

Day 8 candleing. 15 of my 20 eggs are fertile and have moving embryos. I pretty sure one of them has twins in it. Super excited.