Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Spifflove]

well, good news and bad news... good news, i passed the chicks that hatched along to bulldogma, so she's got new peepers to raise up, and i got a baby (uncrested) roo from her that's just the sweetest thing...

bad news, redneck, aka underfoot, seems to be accident prone. first he got stepped on, ripped feathers from his breast and split the skin pretty bad. a bit of superglue to hold it together for a few days, and he was good as new, the scab was almost gone. and today, he got stepped on again! this time his leg. looks like it was shattered in several spots, so we had to put him down...

why is it always the friendliest and favoritest that happens to? why couldn't it be one of the 'SOB' type roos who you wouldn't miss?

Well of course if you are friendly you are going to get stepped on. And those other roos have the common sense not to get underfoot. Of course that means you have to chase them. And they get all the girls.

 

[Spifflove]

Well guys I am happy to say all that I have been working so hard for is finally paying off! I have been working 2 jobs along with going to school (and doing the 4H stuff for my last year

). The older man that was helping me out with everything and who I got the majority of my "layer breeds" from (even bought them and had some shipped from out of state) has recently passed away

and ALL his birds were left in his will to me are here and laying beautifully

! He also left me a sum of money to help pay for the feed until all the birds are laying and paying for themselves! I am an upcoming farm and I am proud to say that....not many people my age even care about their food or how it gets to the store, but not me I am very interested in getting all of our food from right here on the farm! It is very very important to me to learn this because I feel this world is going to have to go back to the old ways some day...I really enjoy this hard work and keeping busy because I have been raised in a very religious family and brought up to believe the saying "idle hands are the Devils work shop" So this farming thing seems to fit me to a T!! Well I am glad you guys may have taken the time to read this so I really appreciate it and now that I am starting to make money I will be looking to add new bloodlines to my SFH chickens....SO if everyone who will have eggs for sale this summer please post here or message me a pic of your breeding stock so I can pick and choose which ones I want to go with first! Thanks Justin ps ID REALLY LIKE TO ADD SOME BLACK PULLETS TO MY FLOCK ANY IDEAS ON WHO HAS BEEN HATCHING BLACK PULLETS?!?!?!?

 

[HaplessRunner]

Hi,

I hatched out 3 SFHs 5 weeks ago. When have they developed enough to determine genders? I can tell with my basques already but not clear yet on the SFH.

Thanks!

 

[uphilljill]

Great photos!

 

[Ariel188]

Beautiful! And it is amazing that you already have guesses on gender!

Well... if everyone else is gonna share photos, I'll just jump right in! These are chicks from eggs WildHorseAnnie sent ki4got to hatch for me (didja follow that?) LOL! Needless to say, after the tragedy last month, these babies are staying in the house until the nights stay warmer!!! (No more power outages, but I ain't playin with any more of my babies!)













Based upon behavior and stance, I'm pretty sure that yellow & blue baby is a cockerel... He'll be the perfect compliment to my breeding program as Gunnar is black based with no blue! Between the two of them and many hens of different colors, in about 6 months I'll be able to offer fertile hatching egg "party packs" where they'll all hatch out different colors - LOL!

 

[KYTinpusher]

Hi,

I hatched out 3 SFHs 5 weeks ago. When have they developed enough to determine genders? I can tell with my basques already but not clear yet on the SFH.

Thanks!

Congrats!

Post pics, we'll be happy to give you our opinions.

 

[Ariel188]

Congrats!

Post pics, we'll be happy to give you our opinions.

Here are 3 of my 7 SFH, what are your gender guesses?

 

[KYTinpusher]

I was finally able to download some pics of my SFH that I hatched from kimberly35042's eggs for the NYD hatch. These are going to add quite a bit of color diversity to my flock. I hope they will be laying by the end of May.

This is a different blue than the one above - my daughter calls them twins!

This lady was not being very cooperative

 

[KYTinpusher]

Here are 3 of my 7 SFH, what are your gender guesses?

A little young yet to tell, but I'll take a stab: girl, girl, boy, middle one may be crested.

 

[lawatt]

first two (of six) chicks have hatched! got home early from work and found TWO little chicks wobbling around, I'm pretty sure one is one of the four SFH, the other seems to be the SFH/CL cross -- so excited to see them!


eleanor and her new baby chick!



the only picture i could get of the two babies without upsetting eleanor too much -- the chipmunk stripes of the one on the left suggest it's the CL/SFH cross, and if the auto-sexing traits hold with a mutt, she should be a little girl!



the SFH chick, while mama in the background tries to show it how to eat -- it prefers to pose!

four more eggs to go!