Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[cree57i]

I keep saying if I'm getting mostly pullets, then somewhere someone has to be getting mostly males. It's good to have a large number of males to choose from. Especially when taking personality into account. You can have a "perfect" bird but if he's nasty or to rough with the girls you may choose the next in line.

I would have liked to have got a breeding group of cream legbars but the few males I got were dissapointing, as were some pullets. I will use the pullets as layers for now and see what I get in the future. I'm going to focus on my SFH and my bielefelders for now. If I were close I would take an extra male off your hands. I have chicks in the brooder now so I'm sure I will have extra males soon.

I'm getting your males.

They are coming in the shape of black copper marans and isabelle leghorns though. One hatch of BCM's 19 out of 23 were males. That rooster is now gone as well as those hens. IDK who got all the cream legbar cockerels. With the SFH's I get about 50/50.

 

[LisaLouHoo]

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My eggs hatched yesterday, and I'm sure hoping some of these are Swedish flowers...

Can anyone confirm?
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I can see the feet of some of them and some do have the traditional coloring, so I think it's definitely possible. The black one does NOT look Swedish to me. You'll know when they feather out and start getting their little white flowers. Because they come in so many varieties, it's hard to say 100% at this fuzzy state They sure are cute!!!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Thanks! They are super cute, whatever they are! I'm hoping the brown/yellow ones are swedish flower! Time will tell, thanks for your input!

 

[jophus]

Bought a dozen Swedish Flower Hen eggs. All but one were fertile. This is the first to hatch. Have 2 more out, 6 more have pipped and I can hear chirping in one of the unpipped ones. Beautiul chicks so far.

 

[LisaLouHoo]

Bought a dozen Swedish Flower Hen eggs. All but one were fertile. This is the first to hatch. Have 2 more out, 6 more have pipped and I can hear chirping in one of the unpipped ones. Beautiul chicks so far.

Congrats!! e

Post more pics when they're all dried and fluffy

 

[OHfarmerswife]

My eggs hatched yesterday, and I'm sure hoping some of these are Swedish flowers...

Can anyone confirm?

Heatherfeather7 what cuties keep us updated with pics.

 

[OHfarmerswife]

Bought a dozen Swedish Flower Hen eggs. All but one were fertile. This is the first to hatch. Have 2 more out, 6 more have pipped and I can hear chirping in one of the unpipped ones. Beautiul chicks so far.

Congrats on your new little flowers

 

[jophus]

Everything has hatched that's gonna hatch.

 

[jophus]

Some of the little flowers I hatched this weekend. They're comical.

 

[LisaLouHoo]

Those littles are so cute!! They will be so fun to watch grow out!!