Swedish Flower Hens Hatchlings & Chicks & Hatching Eggs
I’ve spent so much time seeking out hatching eggs for special requests recently that I have neglected to talk about one of my favorite flocks here at Flower Feather Farm, my Swedish Flower Hens, aka Skånsk Blommehöna, for those of you who speak Swedish.
Swedish Flower Hen Rooster
These beautiful birds evolved naturally in Sweden, living off the land without human influence. Swedish Flower Hens lay cream-colored eggs and are good foragers, good predator avoiders, and oh so pretty. They come with or without crests and we have chicks for sale year-round.
Unlike many breeds that are recognized by the APA and have a Standard of Perfection look, Swedish Flower Hens come in all sorts of colors and color patterns and make, thereby, a more interesting and prettier flock, in my humble and clearly biased opinion. Rather like a bouquet of flowers: similar, but all different.
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 will lay for 8 or 9 years and their eggs are a pretty pale peach color.
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 found in my Swedish Flower Hen coop.
You will receive a half-dozen eggs from Gandalf and Legolas and their ladies, Sunflower, Marigold, Paprika, Autumn, Caramel, and Apricot.
I usually get 84% fertility and 82% hatch rate with these.
Two shipping choices:
USPS Priority:
2-3 days
machine sorted
$25 base price, + $5 for each additional set of eggs
documented damaged eggs will be replaced, but you will need to pay the shipping again
USPS Priority Express:
1-3 days:
hand-sorted
FRAGILE stickers
$40 base price, + $5 for each additional set of eggs
documented damaged eggs will be replaced, you will need to contribute $15 towards shipping
