Recent content by LisaNH

I have garden ponds and big swamps, not pools, but my Icies are fine.

Video of the new babes and the hen I convinced to go broody

I wrote a bit about how I convinced one of my Icelandic hens to go broody just in time to be mama to the babes that hatched from the eggs I got from David Grote: http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2011/04/chickens-cant-count/ I love it when a plan works!

Icelandic/EE mix You are cross-breeding Icelandics?

Well, there's a long history of intensive breeding of Icelandic Sheepdogs in Iceland. There's a very active breeding community, and they weren't exported for a long time. You can find them cheaper, too, if you don't want a registered dog for breeding. My male isn't registered, so my pups are...

Yeah, I've sold many locally, and I sell day olds. I just bought a cabinet incubator off of a local farming mail list and I pick it up next Tuesday. Soon I'll have more Icelandic chickens than Iceland. I have a batch of eggs from David Grote in the little Brinsea incubator that I have had for...

I have tons of photos of them here: Icelandic Chickens I'm just a little enamored of them. I have 80ish hens and 5 roosters, and 2 that I'm not sure of the sex yet.

My strategy for pasty-bum is cayenne pepper in the baby food. Lyle Behl told me to do that when I first got my eggs from him. I've hatched probably 1000 Icies.

I have a lot of peach in my flock. Pretty!

I've got a breeding group of the black and white: http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2011/02/23/black-and-white-icelandic-chickens/

We got them from Ideal.

I started with Partridge Chanteclers last year. I am over-wintering 14 hens and a rooster, and they've kept laying all winter, which is nice. I hope a few of them go broody this spring. This is my egg label: Chantecler Chicken egg label by LisaNH, on Flickr This is Pierre and his girls...

Icelandic chickens aren't a true breed, but are a landrace. There is far too much variation to be a true breed.

I found someone (crazy) who is taking all my spare boys. Some of them were so pretty that I was keeping way too many, and my whole farm is quieter without this dozen. Can you imagine living with a dozen roosters?! I have three little ones that hatched after I sent off a batch of day-old...