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It's really great to see everyone's enthusiasm for Swedish flower hens and how much you have done to help this breed. Greenfire Farms imported a total of 19 Swedish flower hens in 2010. One group of 15 arrived in June of that year, and the next group of four arrived in the fall. The four...

Quote: do you still have this boy? how is he? can you post pics of him fully mature? Thanks http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j437/nicalandia/MottledRoo2.jpg I grabbed the camera and took these pics today. We call him Sorin on the farm, and he's still fathering chicks. A great...

They lay a tinted (beige) colored egg.

Here ya go.

It was a nice spring day, and I took a few pics of a couple of free-range Swede roosters cruising around.

I think they look great, but the personality of the breed is what I've come to really appreciate. They strike a great balance. They're energetic and active, but they're not flighty. They crave human interaction. They are very curious about what's going on around them. As far as temperament...

Yes. But if you ask my wife, it owns me.

I'm not sure when we will sell hatching eggs or chicks. Currently we are selling only juvenile pairs.

A little bonding time with Dad:

Flower hens are a landrace native to Sweden and, to the best of my knowledge, have not been accepted as a breed by any kind of poultry sanctioning body. The best I could come up with were general descriptions of the breed, although if you talk to Swedish hobbyists, they seem comfortable with...

Quote: Great question. I've imported a total of 19 Swedish flower hens from three different bloodlines. That creates the potential for quite a bit of genetic diversity for many generations. We intentionally found and imported crested and crestless birds and have roosters representing every...

Swedish flower hens are not flighty and are among the friendliest, people-oriented chickens we have on the farm. You can see for yourself on this video:

Close up of crested flower hen head:

When Greenfire Farms first imported flower hens from Sweden we received birds from a flock where the breeder selected against the trait of a feather head crest although this trait is accepted as standard among flower hens. We continued to look in Sweden for the crested variety and were lucky...

Quote: I recommend you consider a pair of hedemora if you live in a cold region. That continue to lay in the winter down to 5°F and can easily forage in the snow at -5°F. That could be a useful trait in your neck of the woods. http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/hedemora/

The flower hens arrived in Florida in July during the hottest and most humid summer on record and seemed to do fine. They would hunker down in cool shaded sand on hot days and didn't experience any ill effects. Flower hens are from southern Sweden and are more accustomed to warmer...

A tiny bit of poultry history was made today. Ladies and gentlemen, the first Swedish flower hen egg ever laid in America:

I'll try to shoot some video this week of how they behave when you walk up to their pen. Pretty entertaining how calm and friendly they are.

Yes, the flower hens are considered dual purpose. In body type they look like those old farm breeds that were good layers but with enough meat to make them useful candidates for the stew pot. Having lived with them now for a month, the most surprising thing is how friendly they are. They're...

Quote: My birds are five months old so they haven't reached their full adult size. I've been told flower hens are the largest native Swedish breed with the males topping out at about 8 lbs. So, if that's true they would be about the size of a marans when full grown.