Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[15littlem]

Contrastphoto, do you ever have ads on CL or LSN for your hens and roos?

 

[Contrastphoto]

Contrastphoto, do you ever have ads on CL or LSN for your hens and roos?

Not yet, I have been mainly selling eggs on here and ebay, as I don't have an over abundance SFH's.... yet. To be honest, I am not sure there would be a market locally.

Edited to add: What is LSN?

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

I had 3 almost identical white chicks. They looked exactly the same until the rooster started getting his adult plummage. He has a lot of red now but is still quite light. The other two are splash, mostly white, but one has flecks of grey, and the other flecks of white. I doubt that you would ever have a white rooster. I am also reluctant too breed these pullets to this rooster as I'm almost certain that I will get mostly splash chicks from these pairings. Here is the rooster and the red splash pullet at about 3 months. Also I feather sexed my first 7 chicks just to see how accurate it was. My guess was 4 roosters, 2 pullets and 1 uncertain. I ended up with  4 roosters and 3 pullets. 

Please explain how you feather sex. I'd love to learn!

 

[ladyfaeden]

I was thinking of asking you a question. I just bought a few chicks, one was a dark chipmunk color.
Seems to me that you had one of those. Could you tell me what color it ended up being? I had the chance to pick
up some lighter chipmunk ones, but I have seen birds from the same flock with the lighter color and they were plain so
I passed.
I believe that the lighter hens are simply a dominant white splash (red or grey). I haven't seen light roosters. I had three
yellow chicks. One turned out to be a colorful, mostly orange roo, one a mille fleur hen, and the other my white/red splash
hen.

I think the chipmunk striped ones you are talking about were my cream legbar girls. My original chicks were black, red, and white.

 

[ladyfaeden]

I just finally did a head count. Out of 26 SFH, I got 10 boys and 16 girls! I do have one white based but colorful chicken in my younger group that I'm confused on, but I am thinking its a girl as she's got no color in her comb and it hasn't grown.

 

[gavinandallison]

5 days until my eggs go in to lockdown, amI excited????? Most silly question in the world......

Even though the SFH has not been accepted by the APA yet, has anyone shown a bird yet, and if so what comments did you get from others?

 

[BHep]

I have eggs available... need to sell them before I set them.
PM me if interested.

 

[Bernie56]

Please explain how you feather sex. I'd love to learn!

A friend of mine told me about this. I was a little skeptical, but it has been pretty accurate so far with both my Ameraucana's, and the Swedish Flowers Hens. It is always easier for me if I can visualize it so rather than me trying to explain it take a look at this article @ animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/index.htm.

This link doesn't seem to be working but if you google "feather sexing in chickens" it comes up as a article from Jan.5, 1999. Hope this works for you.

 

[15littlem]

Not yet, I have been mainly selling eggs on here and ebay, as I don't have an over abundance SFH's.... yet. To be honest, I am not sure there would be a market locally.

Edited to add: What is LSN?

Local Sales Network - find local products and services in the mid south - Go LSN!
It is what most people in middle and west Tennessee use instead of CL

 

[Contrastphoto]

Local Sales Network - find local products and services in the mid south - Go LSN!
It is what most people in middle and west Tennessee use instead of CL

Thanks I might try that out!