UPDATE:
Here’s my little Swedish flower
Yep. This was one of my hens as a pullet. She's filled out a lot since this photo. Her hackles have yellow/gold and also a bit down her breast. The rest of her is white with splashes of blue/grey.
love her head feathers! She has golden stripes in some of her feathers and a few grey streaks
I have had two hens (just one left now) and a roo, and they are gorgeous. They are also obnoxious, and one was really loud, with a hideous screeching voice. No other hen pecks me as hard and relentlessly in the nest box when I reach under her to get eggs, and I have a bunch of different breeds. Friendly? Definitely not. Mine also don’t lay very well at all. The first layed for a year and stopped completely, the second lays sporadically… But gorgeous coloring. The roo goes coocoo every spring and attacks me for a few months. Then he calms down again and is at least half way reasonable. I am not planning on getting more any time soon, but focusing on more mellow breeds. - On the plus side, mine have never gone broody.
Well, I have a feeling the other commenter isn’t spending enough time with their birds. My Swedish flowers are my most interactive and sweet tempered birds. They’ve always been easy to pick up and they’re not skittish or as loud as some of my other birds. They’re cold hardy- mine are still laying and it’s cold cold where I live.
I spend the same amount of time with them as I do with my hens of other breeds… I am glad yours are nicer. Where did you get them? I am pretty sure my first ones were from Meyer’s the second from MPC.
