Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[ki4got]

well CRAP! signed up for some overtime, didn't get my entry for Knoxville in on time. i'll send it tomorrow, if i'm too late they'll just send it back I guess. LOL

 

[redhen689]

I have a MF roo who is 5 months. I moved him in with the laying hens. He has stopped crowing. Is this a problem? Also when will his spurs grow? At what age can I expect him to begin breeding?

He should start very soon,altough it might take him a while to be successful. My chickens just turned 5 months old, and i saw one of the roos attempting to mount one of the hens today, She wasn't cooperating though.

 

[redhen689]

I haven't posted here in quite a while. I hatched eggs back in June, and now have 3 young hens and 2 roosters. I don't know the proper names of the colors,
One hen has deeply saturated colors, black, red, and white.
One has medium coloring.
One has very pale, muted colors.
The roosters are gorgeous.

My camera battery was nearly dead, so i was having trouble getting good shots.
SFH roo on left, then pale hen, (you can barely see her) RIR roo, and the other SFH roo, The dark hen is off the edge of the bottom right corner of the photo.

The darkest hen:

I am going to give them authentic Swedish names, maybe after my great-great grandparents.
I'm looking at my geneology and am seeing names like Olaf, Lars, Emil, August, Gustav, Carl, Anders, Anna, Lotta, Maya, Christina, Maria, Carolina, Emma, Inga, and Olga. Interesting, most of the females had names that end with "a", one exception was my great-aunt Ragnhild.

 

[Ms Jellybean]

I am going to give them authentic Swedish names, maybe after my great-great grandparents.
I'm looking at my geneology and am seeing names like Olaf, Lars, Emil, August, Gustav, Carl, Anders, Anna, Lotta, Maya, Christina, Maria, Carolina, Emma, Inga, and Olga. Interesting, most of the females had names that end with "a", one exception was my great-aunt Ragnhild.

My grandma was from Sweden. Her name was Alma Matilda Vitalia (not sure of the spelling on this name). She had 3 sisters named Hannah Marie Charlotte, Signe Sophia, and Ida Carolina.

If you run out of names you can go to a baby name site and search for a specific nationality.

 

[HaplessRunner]

Here is my latest SFH Mille Fleur Roo. He was hatched around September 18. He is going to be a big boy. He appears to have four distinct colors: black, white, red, orange-gold.

 

[ki4got]

Here is my latest SFH Mille Fleur Roo. He was hatched around September 18. He is going to be a big boy. He appears to have four distinct colors: black, white, red, orange-gold.

the orange will probably darken as he gets his adult feathers more, so you'll see mostly red white and black...

hatch date was September 16 if he was one of my hatches (leigh's or ky's eggs)

 

[Penny Hen]

LOL - "roost potatoes"

I have got to remember that one!

 

[ridinshotgun]

I was wondering if anyone has observed their SFH eggs having yolks that are more fragile than other breeds?

For the past few weeks since my hens started laying I have found that their eggs when cracked have a tendency for the yolk to break. Much more so than any of the other eggs that I get from neighbors or friends that are coming form Dominiques, Orpingtons and barnyard mutts.

Has anyone else taken notice of this? Could this be a natural reason why shipped eggs have a very low hatch rate in that the yolks are much more fragile than other breeds?

 

[ki4got]

I was wondering if anyone has observed their SFH eggs having yolks that are more fragile than other breeds?

For the past few weeks since my hens started laying I have found that their eggs when cracked have a tendency for the yolk to break. Much more so than any of the other eggs that I get from neighbors or friends that are coming form Dominiques, Orpingtons and barnyard mutts.

Has anyone else taken notice of this? Could this be a natural reason why shipped eggs have a very low hatch rate in that the yolks are much more fragile than other breeds?

I think it might be more the nature of the pullet's system getting everything in sync...

 

[Kyzmette]

It's also possible that they're missing something nutritionally that they were normally getting in the wilds or in the grains of their home country. Diet makes a huge difference in how the eggs develop, and a breed evolves to thrive in the local environment.