Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[SOHC-FTW]

I'm setting up trail cameras as we speak and I got rugger my outside dog back as well as building a better area for the chickens I'm breeding

 

[SOHC-FTW]

I did manage to locate these sfh yesterday evening down the mountain decent looking non created sfh, and I found my other jubilee she's now back safe and sound with a padlock on kennel until I finish the separated areas.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Wow, really pretty!

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Thanks! She said they were a blood line from Arizona she had Browns, blues and these but nothing like I had but beggars can't be choosers I happy with them.

 

[LisaLouHoo]

I'm in Michigan and have some SFH hatching eggs available. I'm NPIP certified and can ship. PM me if you're interested.

 

[SierraSfhFamily]

No not at all actually the cockrel was head of the pen over the welsummer and jubilee cockrels I have and the fastest and most athletic ones out of the crowd. I set up a live trap last night and nothing so far, the situation kinda makes me mad.

So sorry to hear that! Very upsetting and frustrating. I hope you can figure out what happened so you at least have some closure.

 

[SierraSfhFamily]

I got mine 2 hours north of the Oregon border on the coast from someone who got theirs from GFF in 2015. I am very happy with them. Price was great and the drive was beautiful! Now the hard part is choosing my keepers. 

And there are some scammers selling mutt birds as SFH about  20 min north of the Or border, (I am 20 min S of Or) who got me for $20 each chick... 1 of them has a pea comb and white earlobes, the other has a blackish red comb and dark legs. Neither of them have flowers.   And the Black  Jersey Giant they sold me for $10 is  blue, lighter than and as flighty as my leghorn. $50 was a cheap lesson in life though. At that time I just wanted something rare. So when I found the real SFH and saw the difference plus how much the seller enjoyed hers... Well, now they are 1 of my keeper breeds instead of Lavender. Lav was too much work for breeding. SFH seem to be a great dual purpose breed!   Plus I love the eye candy appeal and if you decide to have only 1 breed, you can still tell these apart. I feel like there must be some kind of wool over my eyes if I can't find the bad in the breed. Well, we still have a long way to go until maturity.

I see lots of people selling GFF. Some ordered to many to meet the minimum. I have gotten mail order chicks 3 times. Twice from MPC and once from a breeder. For some reason the route between those places and mine is terrible so I probably will not do that again. They delivered late twice and once I could tell the babies (RIP) spent a fair amount of time upside down in the box with the bedding on top of them! 14 out of 22 from the breeder survived.

Right now I have 8 SFH. 3 pullet, 5 cockerels. Planning to keep only 2 boys. I have 40 others varying from 3 weeks to about 28 weeks. The last 14 don't have names yet but everybody else does. 

Thanks for the info. We have been hoping to find someone with them in driving distance. OR is a little far but much closer than everyone else I've seen. I've seen a couple people on here within a few hours of us, but I don't think they are wanting to get rid of any hens

 

[SierraSfhFamily]

I've read a little about split wing in SFH and am wondering if it's possible to get one wing that's split, and the other is normal?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I've read a little about split wing in SFH and am wondering if it's possible to get one wing that's split, and the other is normal?

I'm not sure. Lot's of things that seem impossible are not. And with all of the amazing things I see in creation, it wouldn't surprise me.

I will probably have SFH next year, but I'm still quite a ways. Sometimes we go to Medford or Redding, but even that is a ways from you. I don't think GFF sexes their SFH,but I'm not sure. Wish I had more than 3 hens to choose from in case any end up with DQ's for breeding. So far they are still good. One of the bad things about living in beautiful locations is being so far from lot's of stuff, but worth it to me.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Got my three separate breeding/raising pens done about 30mins ago and they are all in the their own little sub division now.,..It's 12wX32l of 5ft tall wire it ain't the prettiest and I have some buttoning up to do but it'll do.

Oh an by the way I caught a big tom cat this morning but my wife made me let him go... Hopefully he doesn't come back.