The Swedish Flower chickens now have their own coop and run, separate from the other chickens, so any eggs we get from them now, we automatically know are purebred.

The two Svart Hona roosters are now in their own coop, with six lovely Delaware hens, as I couldn't find Svart Hona hens, and so decided to see if a cross would be a worthy pursuit.

Come spring, we're hoping to separate the breeds, and get Svart Hona hens for the roosters, and at least one Delaware rooster. So each breed will have its own domain.

We also have some Plymouth Barred Rock hens, and plan to get a couple more hens and a rooster, so we'll have at least four small purebred flocks of chickens, along with our mixed flock.

Since we've yet to incubate any of our mixed breed eggs, and the chickens have only managed to hatch two that lived to adulthood, it's not a major deal.

We're a very small scale operation.