Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[Knock Kneed Hen]

#1 SFH: Here's the dark grey one up close. I'm thinking a cockerel & crested ???

#2 SFH: Here's the black one. Has brown on the wing tips. More mellow personality, I'm thinking pullet.

Pullet on the left, Cockerel on the right.

Not the greatest pics but I was going for documentation rather than adorableness. Wanted to add that they are 2 weeks old.

 

[Contrastphoto]

Well you differently got the adorableness going on in the photos too! I am not sure about the crested, but I do think you got a cockerel in the first one.

 

[anniesmom]

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You totally got the adorable in the pictures. They are SO cute!!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Can't a woman dream? If it's going to be a roo it may as well be crested!! I asked my daughter to hold him so I could take a picture and he pecked her hand, hard enough that she almost dropped him. Definitely rooish!


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[Phage]

So are the roos generally mean??

 

[anniesmom]

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I would think there are going to be a few no matter what in any breed. I "only" have 6 SFH boys that are only 11+ weeks and none of them are mean. They are naturally very curious and will peck at rings, watches, freckles, shoelaces, etc.

 

[anniesmom]

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He does have a little bad hair day thing going on!

 

[rancher hicks]

Where has everyone purchased their stock? Is there anything I should know before I buy? Are they good layers? What sized eggs?

 

[anniesmom]

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The SFHs were only brought to this country last year. I believe that everyone either got their birds from the importer - Greenfire Farms in FL - or bought chicks or eggs from someone who got theirs from Greenfire.
Information I have read says that they are fairly good layers and that the eggs are light brown and start out small and get bigger as the hens get more into laying.

 

[crunchynut]

Well that was a long week! I'm in the New England and with the snowstorm we had just over a week ago we lost power...for 5 days. I have to say these are very hardy little chicks! We didn't have a generator (or any heat) at all the first two days so I kept them as warm as possible with bottles of hot water in the brooder and covering the top partially with a blanket. Then when we did have a generator we turned it off every night so the chicks didn't have a heat lamp from 10pm to 6am every night. We actually lost a weak one a couple days before the storm hit

but they all survived the extended power outage just fine (even when temps in the brooder were sometimes in the high 40s!) I was so afraid we'd lose a bunch. As a plus, they seemed to get their feathers in pretty fast. They're about 3 weeks now I guess and lots of feathers.