Swedish Black Hen This is a traditional hardy breed that has knowingly been in western Sweden and in Norway since the mid 1800's. It's history before that is somewhat obscure but they are thought to have arrived to Europe from Mozambique with early sailors. They take little notice of bad or cold weather. They are calm and friendly but very alert and good flyers. Ours weigh 1,5 - 3kg, are very good sitters and lay around 3 eggs each a week. Their most striking feature is how black they are. Roosters combs are a deep mullberry, their skin, bones and meat is very dark to black. We keep two separate free range groups. The one group lives very happily with our Forest Sheep and will sometimes even ride on their backs. On the picture is our rooster Vader.