Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Leahs Mom]

Quote: chocolate is sex linked recessive... so if she's truly chocolate, then all cockerals have a 50/50 chance of throwing choco hens, but would require a choco hen to breed to to produce choco roos.

i don't believe it's normally found in sfh, so someone outcrossed somewhere to add it in.
I haven't read to the end yet and someone may have brought this up - but the legs don't look yellow. How does that fit in?

 

[KYTinpusher]

I haven't read to the end yet and someone may have brought this up - but the legs don't look yellow. How does that fit in?

They are light yellow. She just likes to play in the mud, which is why, incidentally, I always considered her black - I thought she always had a layer of muddust on her coat which made her look brown.

Here is a pic when she was younger - her legs were quite yellow as a youngster:

 

[15littlem]

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[Bulldogma]

They are light yellow. She just likes to play in the mud, which is why, incidentally, I always considered her black - I thought she always had a layer of muddust on her coat which made her look brown.

Here is a pic when she was younger - her legs were quite yellow as a youngster:

It looks to me as though she is black based with red pushing through the coloration which makes the black appear chocolate. On second thought, it may be the dominance of yellow that is washing the black out. She does look pure SFH to me based upon her build and stance.

She is one amazing looking bird!!

 

[jbarrett]

Has anyone else noticed eye color? they all seem to have an orange/amber colored eye, anyone else recognize that?

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Has anyone else noticed eye color? they all seem to have an orange/amber colored eye, anyone else recognize that?

I've had chicks that start out green like the one in the picture above your last post. Usually by adulthood they're orange, but I did have one hen that kept a greenish eye.

I'm seriously bummed here....first time to fire up my incubator. I just candled and have 6 non viable eggs, which is darned good considering I pulled some out of the fridge that I had put in the day before. Some of those are doing just fine! I signed up to go on an overnight field trip with one of the kids' class. The school just notified me that the dates have been changed....yep, same as the hatch date.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Hi Jeremy! We don't see you on here much anymore. Are you still keeping SFH?

Here is my theory (I wish stoneunhenged would weigh in on this):

I believe the first group of SFH that GFF brought in were all uncrested (well, we know that for sure) and probably mostly red/white based. I think with the second group, they added not only the crests, but the gray (blue) and black colors also. I am not sure what they have added with the third group they recently brought in, but I would like to find out. It sounds like the groups they imported from were all kept as completely separate flocks for many years, so their genetics were not all intermingled like we are now doing with them here in the U.S. This could explain why new colors crop up as we breed them, although I know I saw at least one other person say they had a chocolate hen (TNBEARCHICK, perhaps?) and now madamwlf has one straight from GFF growing out.

Bulldogma - I think you are right about the yellow washing out the black. The yellow from her hackles continues in streaks on her feathers all the way down her back. And I believe she is pure SFH, too.

For the genetics folks - If chocolate is actually a specific genetics in chickens, what color should I call Kaja? I don't want to confuse the issue.

KKH - So sorry you will be gone for hatch day.

Perhaps they will hatch early/late so you are there when they hatch.

 

[jbarrett]

Hey KY- I cant find it again but when I was starting out my research on these beauties, I did find a web page based in Sweden and this is one color I did find and thought it was so neat! Glad someone over here has one! They said they usually come from black based birds crossed with red based birds somewhere in their genetics

 

[KYTinpusher]

Hey KY- I cant find it again but when I was starting out my research on these beauties, I did find a web page based in Sweden and this is one color I did find and thought it was so neat! Glad someone over here has one! They said they usually come from black based birds crossed with red based birds somewhere in their genetics

That would make sense as I always thought her mother was my black hen, Adrian, and most of my roos at the time were red based. I did have one mille fleur roo with a black tail that was very active back then and thought he was dad, but maybe not.

Now I need to find a citron colored SFH!

 

[jbarrett]

That would make sense as I always thought her mother was my black hen, Adrian, and most of my roos at the time were red based. I did have one mille fleur roo with a black tail that was very active back then and thought he was dad, but maybe not.

Now I need to find a citron colored SFH!

now that would be something to see! so guys this is a true SFH color and it just made a new one for me to drool over!