Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Lortiz]

By the way, all 4 birds in my pic are Swedish flowers...

They are beautiful!

 

[LONDON HENS]

Tulip is beautiful and similar to the brown base color of one of my hens;
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The one on the right >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I really hope one of my chicks turns out like Tulip.. beautiful!

Do you remember what colour she was as a chick?

Does a certain colour chick always turn in to be the same adult colours? Or is it completely random? (does that make sense?)

 

[Chickamams]

About 12 week

 

[Perris]

lovely colours there @Chickamams

 

[Honora]

Hi all, I just hatched out some Swedish Flower Hen chicks and I noticed that a few of them have curled toes. I have been reading over some of this thread and it seems like this is a common problem with this breed. We got them some vitamins to add to the water, just wondering if anyone has had any success with treating this issue? Thanks!

 

[LONDON HENS]

Hi all, I just hatched out some Swedish Flower Hen chicks and I noticed that a few of them have curled toes. I have been reading over some of this thread and it seems like this is a common problem with this breed. We got them some vitamins to add to the water, just wondering if anyone has had any success with treating this issue? Thanks!

Sorry to hear about the curled toe chicks, how are they now?

How many did you hatch? Photos?

 

[LONDON HENS]

Out of 8 chicks I have 3 with distinctly longer wing feathers at 1 week old than the other 5. Does the feather sexing method work at 1 week?

 

[Perris]

Out of 8 chicks I have 3 with distinctly longer wing feathers at 1 week old than the other 5. Does the feather sexing method work at 1 week?

I don't know with SFH, but would be interested to hear your experience as they grow up. I found it worked with Barbezieux, on a very small sample!

 

[Honora]

Sorry to hear about the curled toe chicks, how are they now?

How many did you hatch? Photos?

It turns out it is only 1 with curled toes. It’s also the only white chick, so maybe it’s some recessive gene that showed up? The breeder said she has never hatched one like that
It’s getting around ok anyway, so if it’s a hen I guess we will hold onto it but not hatch any of its eggs.
I ended up hatching 12 SFH chicks. They are doing fine; the last one was an assisted hatch & it’s a bit smaller and weaker than the others but doing ok. I just put them on wood shavings & now they are eating them so I am having to watch for pasty butt.
How are your chicks doing? I will take a few pics of mine to post.

 

[Honora]

Out of 8 chicks I have 3 with distinctly longer wing feathers at 1 week old than the other 5. Does the feather sexing method work at 1 week?

I don’t know but one of mine has started doing chest bumps on the others already! It is twice the size of the others also so I am thinking male! Oh, and it is one of the chicks with less feathers. I know with Orpingtons the females tend to feather in earlier.