The Swedish Flower Hens of pair # 2 combine a black based mille fleur hen and a blue based rooster.
This lovely hen went broody in the fall of 2017. She was less then 1 year old at the time. I purchased her in March of 2017 shortly after she hatched at My Flower Farm owned by Lisa Flower Tanner in central Michigan. As of March 2018 she has been with a blue based rooster from Barb Bartel stock who no longer raised Swedish Flower Hens (SFH).
After she demonstrated her broodiness, I gave her some eggs from another pen. There was no rooster in her pen so the eggs she was sitting on were not fertile. Check out a couple blog posts about her broody experience from giving her eggs here to the hatching here.
The ability to ‘go broody’, a genetic trait, may be promoted by providing certain circumstances to bring out the broodiness. The gene bank in Sweden states about 20% of swedish Flower Hens go broody. As one of my breeding goals involves breeding birds for homesteading qualities, breeding for broodiness fills one slot on the top of my list.
Super happy to add this hen went broody 2 times during the summer of 2019. Sad to share coons took out all 6 of the chicks when they were around 7 weeks old from the first setting. The second time she was broody, only 2 eggs were viable at lockdown. The day I moved her to her own private location. She never really settled down in her new location. She did mange to bring the eggs to the point of pipping. I found them pipped and cold. At this point, I placed them in an incubator and both chicks hatched. One, a pullet joined Pen # 6.
Final Update on Swedish Flower Hen Pair # 2
I sadly report the loss of the rooster of this Swedish Flower Hens pair # 2 in the fall of 2019. He was four year old. I also lost the lovely hen who went broody 3 times in her career. She never returned to normal after her last time going broody.
The offspring of this pair are found in Pen # 6 and Pen # 7. I will leave this page open for reference.
Offspring of Pair # 2
The first 2 chicks hatched from this pair via an incubator in March of 2018.
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Read in this blog post about my go to incubator in 2019. I include tips I use with this incubator.
The Janoel 12 incubator with chicks I hatched from Pen # 7.
