The Svart Hona (Swedish Black Hen) Thread!

[Zoomie]

Glad I found this thread. Funny...we have 4 svart babies...and at 8 weeks old..it appears that we too have 3 boys and 1 girl.....
New to chickens, love, love, love the all ebony birds--gorgeous creatures....
now---what to do with THREE male birds?!!

Well, I have been advised to keep two, and most likely? The third will go into the freezer. That is a sad thing but there it is. No one else seems to want him, and there is no sense in waiting until he is a real problem before dealing with it. This way I can choose the best birds to go forward with this project. I've been told it's best to keep two from a setting or breeding, for genetic diversity down the road.

In the meantime, I have some shipped hatching eggs set. I may get lots of cockerels from there too, but I am hoping for at least a few pullets. On the other hand maybe none of them will hatch! You just never know.

So far my 4 are OK together, but there will come a time when that will not be the case. I will try to anticipate this and put the one in the freezer before they start in on each other.

 

[HonaHelp]

Wow---nobody wants a svart hona? Maybe they are more common than I have heard. I just don't know. We had never heard of them until 2 months ago....but--of course, we have never had chickens either.

We are meeting with the breeder tomorrow. She is buying back the two largest birds with the largest combs...one of whom has started trying to crow.

She will then raise us 2 pullets. So---since we are novice chicken people we are happy with that. Pets and eggs are what sent us on this journey.....don't want to get in over our heads with 3 roosters!
My next post will be how to introduce new pullets to the two birds we already have...

 

[ronott1]

Wow---nobody wants a svart hona? Maybe they are more common than I have heard. I just don't know. We had never heard of them until 2 months ago....but--of course, we have never had chickens either.

We are meeting with the breeder tomorrow. She is buying back the two largest birds with the largest combs...one of whom has started trying to crow.

She will then raise us 2 pullets. So---since we are novice chicken people we are happy with that. Pets and eggs are what sent us on this journey.....don't want to get in over our heads with 3 roosters!
My next post will be how to introduce new pullets to the two birds we already have...

Try posting on your State thread.

 

[Zoomie]

Try posting on your State thread.

I did. No response.

Oh well!

 

[HonaHelp]

No--I'm not trying to get rid of a svart hona...I was responding to Zoomies post that nobody
seems to want his extra svart hona rooster....

Am I supposed to 'quote' someone every time I reply to them?

 

[Zoomie]

@HonaHelp no I don't think so. Sometimes if you want to let someone know you posted, you can "tag" them like I just did you. Just type an @ right before their user name, the system generally brings up a list of names close to that as you start typing their name, just pick out their name. I did understand what you meant. I actually understood what @ronott1 meant too.

 

[ronott1]

@HonaHelp no I don't think so. Sometimes if you want to let someone know you posted, you can "tag" them like I just did you. Just type an @ right before their user name, the system generally brings up a list of names close to that as you start typing their name, just pick out their name. I did understand what you meant. I actually understood what @ronott1 meant too.

Tagging can be turned off in settings to the best way is t send a pm.

 

[campingshaws]

@Zoomie hi!!

 

[Zoomie]

Hey, @campingshaws ! How goes it!

 

[campingshaws]

Hey, @campingshaws
 ! How goes it! 

Goes fine, just emailing you.