Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[KYTinpusher]

Beautiful coop, Leigh! The SFHs will love it.

 

[ki4got]

Turnip - you'll have a good flock of SFH before you know it! They are quite addictive!

Well - we just moved and I'm renovating a 10' x 14' building on our new property into a Swedish Gingerbread Coop... because I'm crazy like that. I'll have three 4' x 4'6" coops on the left side with 20' runs and four 3' x 3'6" coops with shorter runs on the right side. There is also going to be a 3' x 5' raised grow out coop inside and in another building on the property I will have a brooder and incubator room with extra cages for sick or injured birds.

Addicted?? Me??

(Yes, Ki4got - this was a change from the original plan... and one that my DH suggested.

)

it is MUCH improved from the first time I saw it!!! wow.

when you're done there, want to help me finish my house?

as for the change in plans... is that because the 3 stalls might just become that?

 

[Bulldogma]

it is MUCH improved from the first time I saw it!!! wow.

when you're done there, want to help me finish my house?

as for the change in plans... is that because the 3 stalls might just become that?

LOL! They *might*! We also need them to store a riding mower and other yard stuff.

But the other day the DH looked up at an overgrown area on the property and stated, "Goats would take care of that! We may have to get some."
I almost fainted! I'll take that as a go-ahead to get a milk goat or two. And the lady who lived in the living quarters of the barn at the property we used to live at offered me an amazing little mare! We just gotta get the rest of the property fenced.

 

[ki4got]

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well, hubby helped his mom put up the fence for the dog club's new agility field, (so now he knows how to do it right...) and said 'when we get ours up, it would even hold goats!'... I think you're (we're) onto something. LOL

also picked up 3 broad breasted turkey poults (white, ick) yesterday... he said sell, I said no, their names are thanksgiving and Christmas (haven't named #3 yet) and that they WOULD be eaten... but if they cohabit and free range with the chickens, and he gets along with them, I may see about a breeding pair next year. may have to resort to pinioning tho, so they don't take off with the wild turkeys... no worries about the bb whites tho. LOL I doubt they'll fly far or fast... probably fly further down than out if they tried from any altitude (about like a lead weight floating in a pond)... LOL

 

[Bulldogma]

well, hubby helped his mom put up the fence for the dog club's new agility field, (so now he knows how to do it right...) and said 'when we get ours up, it would even hold goats!'... I think you're (we're) onto something. LOL

also picked up 3 broad breasted turkey poults (white, ick) yesterday... he said sell, I said no, their names are thanksgiving and Christmas (haven't named #3 yet) and that they WOULD be eaten... but if they cohabit and free range with the chickens, and he gets along with them, I may see about a breeding pair next year. may have to resort to pinioning tho, so they don't take off with the wild turkeys... no worries about the bb whites tho. LOL I doubt they'll fly far or fast... probably fly further down than out if they tried from any altitude (about like a lead weight floating in a pond)... LOL

LOL! Congrats on the turkeys! Name the 3rd "Easter." Or "New Years." (But I kinda like Easter.) I want to raise turkeys too. So much going on right now, I may have to wait until next year... unless I find some good ones for reasonable prices at Gilmanor. CX are on the list, too.

 

[TurnipTruck]

LOL! Congrats on the turkeys! Name the 3rd "Easter." Or "New Years." (But I kinda like Easter.) I want to raise turkeys too. So much going on right now, I may have to wait until next year... unless I find some good ones for reasonable prices at Gilmanor. CX are on the list, too.

Turkey's are on my wish list as well!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Leigh,

An update on your eggs. Today is Day 21. So far 8 have hatched and more are zipping and pipping the shell. This is going to be my best ever hatch of SFH. Thanks to you! Of the eggs that had a letter/name on them, So far two "E" eggs have hatched. An "Ali" egg is zipping now. Also a "P" egg is externally pipping.

 

[fintuckyfarms]

They are a little older now... I have some more eggs in the bater, here's to all girls...

 

[puglady]

Turnip - you'll have a good flock of SFH before you know it! They are quite addictive!

Well - we just moved and I'm renovating a 10' x 14' building on our new property into a Swedish Gingerbread Coop... because I'm crazy like that. I'll have three 4' x 4'6" coops on the left side with 20' runs and four 3' x 3'6" coops with shorter runs on the right side. There is also going to be a 3' x 5' raised grow out coop inside and in another building on the property I will have a brooder and incubator room with extra cages for sick or injured birds.

Addicted?? Me??

(Yes, Ki4got - this was a change from the original plan... and one that my DH suggested.

)

I'll take 4 of these!

Very nice BDM!

 

[OHfarmerswife]

Day 21, humidity is at 63%
One CCL began to hatch last night @ midnight.
Expected to see a chick this am, but it was stuck to the egg. Had to moisten as it was shrink wrapped.
Second egg has piped & I enlarged the hole, still looked most, looks like a female CCL.
No more pips for now.