Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[TNBEARCHICK]

We were kept awake part of the night last night by SFH in the incubator. We had a very large hatch going through and the hatcher was full so these guys got to hatch out in the bottom of the incubator. We also hooked up our new hatcher last night, can't wait to try it out.

 

[KYTinpusher]

We were kept awake part of the night last night by SFH in the incubator. We had a very large hatch going through and the hatcher was full so these guys got to hatch out in the bottom of the incubator. We also hooked up our new hatcher last night, can't wait to try it out.

Yea for more SFH chicks!

I have a box of SFH eggs to pick-up at the PO today!

Do all the chicks look like the penguin then change?

Does this answer your question?

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Yea for more SFH chicks!

I have a box of SFH eggs to pick-up at the PO today!

Does this answer your question?

Huhm wonder where those came from? LOL. We have a new rooster in with our girls, actually three roosters total, but the one who took over the coop is a gorgeous white with light barring and he is throwing some gorgeous chicks.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Hiding in our Juveniles, she is now gone to a new home. She will be laying lots of eggs but unfortunately with no rooster, so just eggs.

 

[KYTinpusher]

We have a new rooster in with our girls, actually three roosters total, but the one who took over the coop is a gorgeous white with light barring and he is throwing some gorgeous chicks.

He's handsome, but doesn't look like any SFH I have seen before. Where did you get him from?

edited to change pretty to handsome

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

He's handsome, but doesn't look like any SFH I have seen before. Where did you get him from?

edited to change pretty to handsome

I will have to ask Tiffany. She handles the SFH.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Tiffany had eggs from you and us both in together and wasn't sure if it was your eggs or ours. All of our SFH either came from you or GFF. We also have one from GFF that is Chocolate with chocolate legs. Jennie said she had had a handful that hatched that way. We have SFH from all 3 lines.

 

[Bulldogma]

Huhm wonder where those came from? LOL. We have a new rooster in with our girls, actually three roosters total, but the one who took over the coop is a gorgeous white with light barring and he is throwing some gorgeous chicks.

GFF is notorious for shipping other breeds as "packing peanuts" when they ship out chicks. You have to read all the print on the shipping papers to see what else they might have put in there. This boy is very pretty, but I don't believe he is a SFH. I have never seen barring on a mature SFH rooster. Some of the feathers may appear barred up close, but the barring shouldn't be so uniform. I have also never seen a SFH roo that is primarily white with black and no red at all.

Also - I don't see any true "flowering" on him. All of my boys have flowering on their sickle feathers and it is most notable on their chest/body feathers. I see some possible lacing on this boy, but no flowering. Most of his darker feathers should have white tips - but not lacing - more like a chevron of white.

I'm very sorry to say it, but I really don't think this boy is a SFH.

I would suggest you get confirmation from GFF about what this boy is, and I wouldn't use him for breeding until you are 100%.

 

[Bulldogma]

Here's a boy with a lot of white on him - you can see the chevrons on his darker feathers:

 

[TxFlowers]

GFF is notorious for shipping other breeds as "packing peanuts" when they ship out chicks. You have to read all the print on the shipping papers to see what else they might have put in there. This boy is very pretty, but I don't believe he is a SFH. I have never seen barring on a mature SFH rooster. Some of the feathers may appear barred up close, but the barring shouldn't be so uniform. I have also never seen a SFH roo that is primarily white with black and no red at all.

Also - I don't see any true "flowering" on him. All of my boys have flowering on their sickle feathers and it is most notable on their chest/body feathers. I see some possible lacing on this boy, but no flowering. Most of his darker feathers should have white tips - but not lacing - more like a chevron of white.

I'm very sorry to say it, but I really don't think this boy is a SFH.

I would suggest you get confirmation from GFF about what this boy is, and I wouldn't use him for breeding until you are 100%.

Huhm wonder where those came from? LOL. We have a new rooster in with our girls, actually three roosters total, but the one who took over the coop is a gorgeous white with light barring and he is throwing some gorgeous chicks.

I agree with BULLDOGMA that he doesn't look like a SFH. I had recently seen your auction on ebay for SFH eggs with him showing as your roo and thought he was something else. Last year I got two orders of SFH chicks from GFF and in one they included a chick that was a splash Barnevelder. It was not listed anywhere that they had sent this chick and when he grew up looking considerably different from the rest, I sent Jenny a photo and asked. She confirmed what he was and she said she had no idea how he got in the bunch. As a day old chick he was somewhat similar to the SFH and because he ended up splash he kind of looked like the splash SFHs but I knew he wasn't. Had it been someone else that received him, they probably would have bred him as a SFH