Icelandic Chickens

[Phoenix Farms]

My hen has started laying so I popped a couple eggs in the incubator! Along with 14 royal palm eggs and 18 d'uccle eggs. Hope all goes well!

 

[RedIII]

Yay! Good luck! I tried a couple of batches of turkey eggs this year, but they were a bust lousy incubator. When you have poults, can I please ask for a picture?

Mike, how's the hatch going?

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Yay! Good luck! I tried a couple of batches of turkey eggs this year, but they were a bust lousy incubator. When you have poults, can I please ask for a picture?

Actually I have some poults now. I had two broody cochins hatch nine. A snake got two but I still have 7 healthy babies. I will try to get pictures tomorrow.

 

[mlm Mike]

I have three hatched, and one pipped of the 6 Husatoftir I set. It looks like one pip from the 10 Hlesey line that made it to lockdown. I separated them into separate incubators Wednesday. It's interesting too me that the one line is hatching early.

 

[mlm Mike]

Hatching update: 4 hatched and 1 piped (Hustatofir) and three hatched of Hlesey. I'll post some photos later today.

 

[RedIII]

Yaaaay Mike! Can't wait to see!

I candled my eggs tonight. Three clears, one ??? And the rest are developing beautifully. Ohhhh I'm hoping hoping hoping!

 

[Hrtofau2]

Gorgeous!! You are very lucky!

 

[mlm Mike]

Here are the 10 chicks, the Hustatofir have little green bands on their legs.

 

[debs_flock]

Yay! Good luck! I tried a couple of batches of turkey eggs this year, but they were a bust

lousy incubator. When you have poults, can I please ask for a picture?

Mike, how's the hatch going?

No more turkey hatching for me, last year I hatched out close to 100 of them, do you have any idea how much turkeys can eat?

The took over my fenced garden area and I haven't had a garden since.

This year I'm selling off the last of my breeders. I want a garden again and everything has to be fenced off from the darn deer around here.

Hi Other Mary, haven't stopped in for awhile, but I read through the thread to catch up.

Deb

 

[NotAFarm]

Cute chicks, Mike.....would you like to expand on the Hustatofir and Hlesey lines for those of us not in the know?

Hi Deb! I hope you had a great trip........how could you not?!!

The eight Easter Hatchalong Icelandics are doing great. 7 of the 8 have single combs and the only rose comb is a cockerel....... I need to get out with the camera....
Glora's singleton is also a single comb and dark....looks like Eldur was busy this Spring!
Asta hatched two Barnevelder chicks from the shipped eggs. I hope at least one is a pullet.........Kelly I'll post a picture and you can give me the news......

I gave the other 4 Barnevelder eggs to the KY pullet but none hatched. I removed her from the mobile coop and she spent yesterday trying to get back in but was on the roost with everyone else in the evening.
Glima and Gula got a couple eggs each from a neighbor's cochins. Gula has a blue and a black but Glima didn't hatch any so I will be moving her out to the mobile coop, minus a nest box, today.