Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Bulldogma]

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WOOHOO! any other roos nearby besides gunnar? 8) if not, send it along and i'll see what it's hiding. 8)

The egg was fertile (yeah - we ate it) but there was a good chance it was Mills who did the deed. I just separated them this morning and in about 3 weeks time, I'll start saving all her eggs for hatching. You'll have to decide if you want to start a SFH pen someday... 'cause you know you get first pick on anything you hatch.

Exciting! Remind me...how old is she?

I got her at a ginormous swap meet in VA - I estimate her age at 24 - 25 weeks because when I got her she seemed to be right about the same age as my other chicks.

Got my first egg from my ginger colored Swede...10 months! Yikers. But full sized, beautiful cream egg! Yippee!

How FUNNY!! The girl I have who just layed her first egg yesterday is named "Ginger!"

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

I ordered some Cream Legbars from Greenfire Farms to be shipped this spring and added in 4 Swedish Flower chicks to hopefully increase the likelihood everybody makes it through the stress of shipping. Looking at all of the cute pictures here helped convince me. My husband likes colorful chickens so maybe this will make him more likely to pitch in with the chores ;-) I kid. My daughter will be two this spring and it sounds like the Swedish Flower hens are calm enough birds that they should get along well.

 

[Sebrightsrock]

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Icatty has eggs I got 10 from her 2 hatched but we are thinking something went wrong in my incubator because all of the eggs devloped into chicks just didnt come out (humidity off)

Bhep has eggs

KYtinpusher

also try ebay there are usually a few listed there, as far as chicks you can go on the web here are a few web sites.....

www.greenfirefarms.com these are the ones who imported them

www.jordan-farm.com these guys have chicks as well as hatching eggs

www.pawheadpoultry.com their shipping does not start until April

www.ourflybabies.com



GOOD LUCK with who ever you decide to go with! I really love mine!

Thank ya!

 

[jbarrett]

Thank ya!

No problem also Lazy Q has some eggs for sale he has such beautiful birds I actually got 10 of his chicks 2 weeks ago and love them, it was a long drive to his house but worth it!

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

This will be my first year with SFH... thanks to a good friend.

That's the best thing about "chicken people"... they like to share <enable>

SFH is my favorite LF breed.

Mine are still young.











And I have 2 younger ones.
This pic is a few weeks ago....



Here's a more recent one...



The little roo is so sweet... he let's a small serama cuddle up next to him to keep warm.

 

[KYTinpusher]

This will be my first year with SFH... thanks to a good friend.

That's the best thing about "chicken people"... they like to share <enable>

SFH is my favorite LF breed.

Mine are still young.











And I have 2 younger ones.
This pic is a few weeks ago....



Here's a more recent one...



The little roo is so sweet... he let's a small serama cuddle up next to him to keep warm.

Beautiful birds!

What happened to the ones you hatched out from me last summer?

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

This will be my first year with SFH... thanks to a good friend.

That's the best thing about "chicken people"... they like to share <enable>

SFH is my favorite LF breed.

Mine are still young.











And I have 2 younger ones.
This pic is a few weeks ago....



Here's a more recent one...



The little roo is so sweet... he let's a small serama cuddle up next to him to keep warm.

That first roo is gorgeous

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Beautiful birds!

What happened to the ones you hatched out from me last summer?

Let's just say DH was still very much in the learning process of hatching..... only 1 made it out of the shell and he lived about a week.
Seems like last summer it was not a great time to raise anything.... chicks were dropping like flies.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Let's just say DH was still very much in the learning process of hatching..... only 1 made it out of the shell and he lived about a week.
Seems like last summer it was not a great time to raise anything.... chicks were dropping like flies.

Aww.. so sorry.

I wonder.. Do Swedish Flower Hen eggs just not ship well? I've had several dozen shipped recently and had a similar experience. If it were happening with all of the breeds that I'm hatching eggs from I would question my incubator/temps/humidity, but it isn't. Mostly just seems to be an issue with the SFH. Has anyone else found this to be the case?