Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Blonde Swede]

Hi There, My latest chicks from Ebay eggs ( 3/11 eggs hatched) are four weeks old. I'm thinking two pullets and a possible cockerel but not positive. What do you guys think?

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I now have 7 SFH from 4 bloodlines..lol. Not the best hatch rate with those eBay eggs, but It's been fun. Of the older bunch I have 3 cockerels and 2 pullets..of course..haha!

 

[TurnipTruck]

At what age to SFH usually start to lay. I have a pullet from a New Years Day hatch that I am thinking should start laying soon, 7 months of waiting for eggs is driving me nuts.

 

[TxFlowers]

At what age to SFH usually start to lay.  I have a pullet from a New Years Day hatch that I am thinking should start laying soon, 7 months of waiting for eggs is driving me nuts.

Mine typically are about 5 1/2 mo

 

[KYTinpusher]

At what age to SFH usually start to lay. I have a pullet from a New Years Day hatch that I am thinking should start laying soon, 7 months of waiting for eggs is driving me nuts.

My pullet from a NYD hatch started laying about 2 weeks ago, just before a raccoon got her.

 

[ki4got]

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I was the person who drafted the guidelines, with the help of others, both in the US and in the UK, and at that time found no inferences of 'skin colored' legs... it will be updated as I have the time and information to do so.

 

[Melabella]

My pullet from a NYD hatch started laying about 2 weeks ago, just before a raccoon got her.

So sorry,,,, why can't they just stay in there part of the woods....hate it!

MB

 

[TurnipTruck]

Mine typically are about 5 1/2 mo

This is about what I was thinking. Anyone have any ideas why my little girl might not be laying yet? Heat? stress? diet?

She has lived in the same place since I brought her home 6 months ago. I have been feeding her free choice crumbles and fermented feed, plus what ever she can snag (she caught a fly out of the air a few days ago). She has access to free choice shells. For almost a month she has been testing out the nesting boxes, but no eggs yet. She just seems to a little out of sync with what I am used to with chickens and laying.

 

[TxFlowers]

This is about what I was thinking.  Anyone have any ideas why my little girl might not be laying yet?  Heat? stress? diet?

She has lived in the same place since I brought her home 6 months ago.  I have been feeding her free choice crumbles and fermented feed, plus what ever she can snag (she caught a fly out of the air a few days ago).  She has access to free choice shells.  For almost a month she has been testing out the nesting boxes, but no eggs yet.  She just seems to a little out of sync with what I am used to with chickens and laying.

Maybe it is the heat. Mine that started laying at 5 1/2 months were born either in March or April or in August so in both cases when they started laying it was cool. My adult flock which will turn a year old in late August had been laying lots of eggs until a week or so ago and now it has dropped down considerably. They aren't molting yet so I figure it's the high east Texas humidity and heat. And wouldn't you know it, had a guy contact me yesterday wanting a bunch of hatching eggs! Lol

 

[TRUE5]

I so wish I could show a picture but my phone won't let me. I just got me a new roo from Cathie Sue here in Okla. He is GORGEOUS! I found my cockerel has a sprig on his comb starting to rear it's ugly head. I also believe he has split wing but I'm not 100% sure. He's 5 mo old and at the joint he has a feather that's only a few inches long on both wings. Is that still considered split wing? I think I need to just find a replacement for him (he's crested and I would like one other roo that's crested as well.).

 

[ki4got]

well, I just hatched my first chicks from the youngest pen. a son of Leigh's Blue (also named Blue) with a mille girl and a Berta daughter (I think) also from Leigh's lines...

got this unusual little one, that I think may end up being a snoleopard possibly. the reds coming in are more buff than anything else.

at first I thought splash? but with blue and black marked parents, that's not an option.




I decided not to put this one with the broody, but wanted to keep an eye on him/her as (s)he grows up.