Hedemoras aren't flashy chickens trying to get your attention. They're sturdy, generally calm little birds with roots in the Hedemora region of Sweden, where chickens had to live through long, cold winters and still get on with the business of being chickens.
Then you start looking around the flock and realize there's quite a bit going on.
Hedemoras can vary considerably in color, pattern, and feathering. Our flock includes both smooth and wooly-feathered birds, so there can be some pretty interesting possibilities tucked inside an otherwise ordinary-looking hatching egg.
This listing is for one dozen fertile Hedemora chicken hatching eggs from our breeding flock.
About the Hedemora
Hedemoras are a Swedish landrace associated with the area around the town of Hedemora. Rather than being developed around a rigid show standard, the population reflects generations of practical farm keeping in a northern climate.
They're compact, sturdy chickens, and we generally find them calm and steady to work around. There's also plenty of natural variation within the population, including different colors and patterns.
The feathering is where things get particularly interesting. Hedemoras can have normal smooth feathers or an unusual wooly feather type that gives some birds a completely different appearance.
Both belong here.
Breed Characteristics
- Origin: Hedemora region of Sweden
- Type: Swedish landrace
- Hen weight: approximately 3.3 to 4.4 pounds
- Rooster weight: approximately 4.4 to 5.5 pounds
- Egg color: off-white to light beige, sometimes with speckling
- Egg size: medium
- Egg production: approximately 130 to 150 eggs per year
- Temperament: generally calm and steady
- Broodiness: moderate to high, with many hens willing to set
- Climate: historically associated with the cold conditions of central Sweden
- Feathering: smooth or wooly
- Appearance: naturally variable in color and pattern
That cold-climate history is absolutely worth knowing, but cold-hardy doesn't mean winter-proof. Hedemoras still need appropriate shelter, good ventilation, unfrozen water, adequate nutrition, and protection during severe weather.
They're chickens. Not tiny feathered snowplows.
What You'll Receive
You'll receive one dozen fertile Hedemora chicken hatching eggs from our breeding flock.
The photos in this listing show our actual birds, but we can't predict the exact color, pattern, or feather type you'll hatch from individual eggs. We also don't guarantee sex or sex ratio.
When available, we may include extra eggs at no additional charge. Extras aren't guaranteed.
A Quick Reality Check About Hatching Eggs
We sell fertile hatching eggs from our breeding flock, but fertility doesn't guarantee development or hatch.
Shipping introduces variables we can't control, including carrier handling, vibration, temperature exposure, and delays. Egg condition, storage, incubation temperature and humidity, turning, incubator performance, and biology can affect the outcome too.
Because of those variables, we cannot guarantee a hatch rate on shipped eggs. Sometimes they hatch beautifully. Sometimes you do everything right and still get a disappointing result.
That's frustrating, but it's part of hatching shipped eggs.
Hatching Egg Shipping
- Eggs ship Monday through Wednesday
- USPS Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express are available
- USPS hatching egg shipments include the required $15 USPS surcharge
- UPS shipping is also available and does not include the USPS surcharge
- Tracking is provided
- We do not currently ship hatching eggs to Hawaii
- Off-site local pickup may be available
- Extra eggs are included when available
If you'd like your package held at the post office for pickup, choose USPS shipping and leave us a note at checkout.
We carefully pack our eggs for travel, but even a perfectly intact egg can experience handling during transit that affects development. Good packing helps. It can't make shipped hatching eggs risk-free.
Our Hedemora Flock
Our goal with Hedemoras isn't to turn them into a flock of matching chickens. The different colors, patterns, and feather types are part of the population we're working with, including the unusual wooly feathering that makes some Hedemoras immediately stand out from the rest.
We're also not breeding around appearance alone. Healthy reproduction, functional birds, appropriate breed characteristics, and maintaining diversity within the flock all matter in our breeding decisions.
Our flock participates in the National Poultry Improvement Plan and is A/I Clean under participant #31-1508, Tina Hines. The chickens shown in our photos are our actual breeding birds.
We don't offer public farm visits, but we're happy to share flock photos and updates so you can see the birds behind your eggs.
Before You Order
Please read our
Hatching Eggs and Chicks Terms of Service Policy before ordering. Purchasing hatching eggs or chicks means you agree to those terms.