Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Contrastphoto]

My opinion is that it's not a pure SFH. I have looked at all blogs, galleries, posts of SFH's and have not found any resembling this bird. I myself had a cockerel that had very little flowering & poor body type but it was still evident to me that he was a SFH. I'm going to have the opportunity to see him again this week and I'll take pictures. Did you buy the eggs online so you weren't able to see the stock? Have you at least seen pictures of the parent stock? If not, I'd ask the seller to email you some pictures purely for your curiosity.
The bird in your avatar certainly does look like a SFH, but perhaps a rooster got to the hen without the seller even being aware..it happens. Don't discount it on my word alone. Would like to hear what others think.​

ETA: Here's a link to a blog with a lot of pictures. This is in Sweden, someone working to preserve the SFH's.
http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/Lones-Ark/15610837

x2 She is very pretty, but doesn't look like a pure SFH. I would love for my SFH to look like the ones on that link! Wow....

 

[emille57]

I contact the people I got the eggs from and he was honest about them. The red ones are actually a project he is working on with rhode island reds and swedish flowers. He must of got the eggs mixed up some how. Thanks everyone for your help, I really appreciate it!

 

[KYTinpusher]

I've finally got some new pictures!
My two current flockwatchers (the other roos are on standby for now): Astolf and Stellan

Astolf and the girls:

The other two girls:

The eggs I'm getting: The one on the left is a white dummy egg, the one on the right is one of the smaller BR eggs (57.7g which makes it a med.) from my older birds. The six in the middle are from my SFH pullets, although one of them could be from a BR pullet. My pullets are 6 and 7 months old.

 

[Contrastphoto]

Wow looking great! Your reds are gorgeous!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

KYT WOW!! You have a beautiful flock. Remind me again, where did you originally purchase your chicks/eggs? Thanks for sharing pics of the eggs too. It really shows the range in color.

 

[Contrastphoto]

Is this an Icelandic or SFH? I have two that look like this!

I have one that looked like this:

Now she looks like this:

 

[KYTinpusher]

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Wow looking great! Your reds are gorgeous!

Thanks!

KYT WOW!! You have a beautiful flock. Remind me again, where did you originally purchase your chicks/eggs? Thanks for sharing pics of the eggs too. It really shows the range in color.

I bought the eggs on Ebay. The older ones, Astolf included, came from Wildhorsefarms. The older group, including Stellan, came from mprincess70 (Duemig10 on BYC).

I love that color!

Do you have eggs available from her? (

DH will shoot me just for asking

)

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

KYT, the transformation of that last hen pictured is amazing. I would have never guessed! She's lovely.

 

[ladyfaeden]

Some new pics of a couple of my SFH's, should be getting very close to laying:

 

[KYTinpusher]

Nice!