Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[kristofandmama]

That's my sense as well. Thank you.

 

[bluejean55girl]

This may be unusual on the SFH breed, but this is a beautiful bird. Bet she'll be even more gorgeous when she matures and all her flowers come out.

mated to a non crested roo will give you the "normal single crested gene" in all of her offspring. Then mating those single gene crested babies to a non crested roo will give you a rough average of 50/50 of single crest or no crest grand babies. She herself is still usable as a breeder assuming that she has no other faults that she should not be passing on.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Here are a few photos of the SFH kids from a couple weeks ago They change so much from week to week that they are really fun to watch grow up. The little cockerel pictured below already has changed immensely since these were taken. I left my photos on a drive at work or I'd post some photos from yesterday

What beautiful birds!

A very nice pair you have there!

We have a Great Pyrenees named Freya!

This is my second group to hatch from Spoticus and the German girls. I want to keep all of them. I am finding letting go of SFH chicks to be very difficult! I still have all the first group!

Adorable!

Hello all,
I'm looking for some expert advice on this bird I ordered. This should have been a Swedish Flower Hen, but I don't know - that crest!
This is not the bird I was expecting - the breed appealed to me for its hardiness, free-ranging ability and intelligence. I know some have crests, but I haven't seen any that have this much - she looks like a Polish. Poor thing can't see a thing, runs around in terror bumping into things. This can't be the product of a landrace, never would have gotten past natural selection, right?

I know there's a wide diversity within this breed, so I'd like to hear if others have encountered this, or if there has been concerted efforts to breed crests into the breed. Armed with some info, I'd like to send a letter of complaint. She's a sweet girl, and after I trimmed a lot of the feathers away so she can see, she actually seems like a smart girl, too.
Thanks!

That crest could be due to a crested-to-crested breeding. These 2 girls I know are uncrested to crested breeding, though, and still have pretty big crests. I think there is more than one gene involved that determines the size of the crest.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Talking about large crests...

This girl was the result of crested to crested. And I am guessing that her mother was also crested to crested so it was extremely excessive.









I gave her a hair cut so she could function.



I don't keep crested birds (especially large crests!) so this girl went to a pet home not too far from me and is still happily carrying on in her flock.

 

[SHERRING7712]

Hello all,
I'm looking for some expert advice on this bird I ordered. This should have been a Swedish Flower Hen, but I don't know - that crest!
This is not the bird I was expecting - the breed appealed to me for its hardiness, free-ranging ability and intelligence. I know some have crests, but I haven't seen any that have this much - she looks like a Polish. Poor thing can't see a thing, runs around in terror bumping into things. This can't be the product of a landrace, never would have gotten past natural selection, right?

I know there's a wide diversity within this breed, so I'd like to hear if others have encountered this, or if there has been concerted efforts to breed crests into the breed. Armed with some info, I'd like to send a letter of complaint. She's a sweet girl, and after I trimmed a lot of the feathers away so she can see, she actually seems like a smart girl, too.
Thanks!

I'm no expert but we have a couple SFH's and visit our local SFH breeder and I haven't seen one with that much of a crest either but her flowering color looks like a SFH, but that crest does make ya wonder if there isn't some other blood in there. She is a pretty girl though!

 

[gimmie birdies]

This was a SFH I got from a breeder, when he sold it to me he was excited about the crest. this was the sweetest bird ever, and possibly the most loving, she got herself wedged between lay pens and died.

 

[morgan85]

Anyone near northeast Ohio looking for any roosters? I have a variety of them. They are from Blue House Farm. Hatch day of May 24.

 

[LisaLouHoo]

I was hoping I was wrong because it means that out of 12 chicks I only got 3 hens.  I guess I shouldn't buy a lottery ticket...

Do you want hatching eggs so you can try again for more pullets?? Pm me if you're interested

 

[FlyWheel]

Every tme I see one of these i think

"OMG! Phyllis Diller's come back from the dead!"

 

[Twiggy930]

When will my SF cockerels start to crow? I live in the city so I will need to solidify my rooster exit strategy before they start bothering the neighbors. I would like to grow them as big as possible and then process them but I'm not sure if this will work given I will have to take action before the crowing starts. Any advice is much appreciated.