Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[PugBug]

So far Gunnar's last chick is looking like it will be MF (but I can't tell if it has blue in it - think it might, but it's not predominant). It looks and acts feminine, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Beautiful little face- I love thier eyes

 

[ki4got]

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Quote: I agree, he looks basque not sfh... sfh don't have barring unless they're a mix.

 

[texasmomma]

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I agree, he looks basque not sfh... sfh don't have barring unless they're a mix.

He's too grey to be basque and they don't have crests.

 

[ki4got]

So far Gunnar's last chick is looking like it will be MF (but I can't tell if it has blue in it - think it might, but it's not predominant). It looks and acts feminine, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

awesome pics Leigh... love the close-ups. i'm thinking blue, myself. crossing fingers for a girl too...

 

[ki4got]

ok, well, probably tomorrow, i'm doing some major rearranging of 'who lives where'. i'll be pairing up my bantam blrw pair since she's stopped being broody (again), and my mille fleur cochins are getting the boot (since they're ALL broody) and the SFH trio is going in the cochin's pen. it's a bit on the smallish side for the dorkings, but I think the swedes will do just fine. especially with only a trio.

i'm also relocating one of the coops and going to put the pen back on it, and set up the red dorkings. so Thing2 will have 5 girls to himself finally. IF they don't all go broody (again).

I counted yesterday... I've got 10 girls sitting on wooden eggs and 3 with babies. and I found a 'hidden' nest yesterday. LOL in the back of the pickup truck, under the toolbox! oh well, whatever works. LOL

 

[ki4got]

Quote: well, regardless, he's not pure sfh. that much is pretty sure. pretty sure there ARE barred crested varieties out there, I just don't know all the names. thought basque was one of them.

edit: figured out what it was I was thinking of... cream legbar. they are crested, and barred, and similarly colored... maybe he's one of those.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Quote: He looks like a Crested Legbar.

Ooops- read you last post after I wrote that!

 

[pickitfarm]

So far Gunnar's last chick is looking like it will be MF (but I can't tell if it has blue in it - think it might, but it's not predominant). It looks and acts feminine, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

What a gorgeous chick. I so want SFH. My hatch in June was a bust.

 

[PugBug]

He's too grey to be basque and they don't have crests.

yes he's too grey for basque, when I first saw him it was because of his barring that made me think of my basque cockerel. With his tiny crest I was thinking maybe it was a mix at first until someone suggested cream legbar-

 

[SunnySkies]

Well, when I built a new, big coop a month ago, I had in mind that all the SFH could eventually sleep in there. When I put my oldest ones in there, I left them in the coop and a temporary run for some days. But after removing the run, the flock split, with 4 younger SFH moving back in with the bantam Cochin roo.

This is now an issue. I would like to put the juvenile birds that have been in the brooder in the small coop with the Cochin roo. He is a great rooster and takes wonderful care of his flock (so well I can actually let his Silkie ladies free range). But this means I take these March SFH put and put them in a coop with the February bunch they used to live with and clearly didn't care to live with (can't say as I blame them...the head rooster is a pill right now).

I am thinking of pulling out the head rooster and keeping him in the garage for a bit, putting the March birds in the large coop with the remaining February birds and confining them all to the coop. I'm not too worried about heat; there is a large window, and there would only be 8 birds in the coop anyway. Once they are all resettled, Wasp can go back in. But would this be setting me up for issues?

As a kid, we had 300 birds, but they all lived in one coop, and we didn't have issues integrating birds as all replacements originated with broody hens in the flock. I have a bunch of coops spread across my property, so trying to integrate birds into one coop is a new experience for me.

Eventually all SFH need to sleep and lag eggs in this coop. I'll probably accomplish this about the time I get the very large coop I have in mind finished.