a Flower Feather Farm flock
Swedish Flower Hens evolved naturally in Sweden, living off the land without human influence: a landrace.
Skånsk Blommehöna aka Swedish Flower Hens lay cream-colored eggs and are good foragers, good predator avoiders, and oh so pretty. They come crested and uncrested and hailing from snowy Sweden, they are unfazed by our rainy PNW winters.
They are not winter layers, but will lay for 8 or 9 years and their eggs are a pretty pale peach color.
Pictures of Swedish Flower Hen juveniles and adults can be found at the Swedish Flower Hen Juvenile and Adults listing.
Someone recently asked me why, specifically, I love them so.
How do I love them? Let me count the ways.1) I love the visual diversity of the flock.
2) I love the endless delicate coloring variations of the chicks.
3) I love that they are predator-savvy. The roosters are always the first to call alert and even the SFH babies in the brooders respond, whilst the other chickies bumble about obliviously.
4) I love that, if I raise them together, two roosters will peacefully share a flock -- this can happen with other breeds, yes -- but it is consistent with the Swedes.
5) I love that they originate from Sweden as did my forebears. My great-grandfather was a child coal miner in Sweden prior to emigrating to the US at 23.
6) I love that they are easy-keepers. Lice and mice, intestinal worms, bumble-foot etc. are rarely are found in my Swedish Flower Hen coop.
