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    Keeping a single rooster- ok or cruel?

    Hope that I can get some recommendations from folks on this thread. I bought four chicks, one of which was a rooster. I was fine with that, and looked forward to hatching clicks. About 2 weeks ago, my two hens were taken (probably a fox) and I was left with the only chick we had hatched (hen)...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    I have an Icelandic roo and spring chick (hen) available to a good home. I just lost my two laying hens to a fox, so I would like to find safer homes for the survivors. They are Behl/Sigrid mixed lines. I am in southern NH. The roo is at the front of the group in the picture. The hen's mom is...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Hi All, I've lost two of my hens in the past two days, and I'm thinking I might want to find homes for the remaining two. They are both Behl and Behl/Sigrid mix. The roo is about 1.5 years old. The hen was hatched this spring. I don't want to keep them locked in the run, but I can't handle...
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    How to house a broody hen with chicks

    I'm trying to raise my first little chick with the flock. This is the first hatched chick for me and my hens. Everything was going great, but today, day 3, the hens (she has twos mommas), took her outside the coop and she got out of the pen. I have a dog kennel that has welded wire along the...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Finally got a good photo of our little baby with her two moms. Can't believe how well they share her.
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Very happy to find my single chick and two mommas all safe and happy when I got home today. It was in the 80's, so I worried about baby Zap (Named by my 10-year-old son. His first choice being The Kraken.) getting enough water. Seems that mommas are teaching her well (using a nipple waterer)...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Woo hoo finally got a chick! I tried putting one of the hens in a dog carrier to hatch the last couple eggs, but she scattered the eggs in the bedding and wouldn't sit on them. So I put her and the eggs back in the coop. Another dead baby was there this morning but there was also one that...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    This is the nesting box that I'm using. But imagine it with two Icie hens in it. Definitely if the chick got out, it wouldn't be able to get back in. Think I may try to use a small dog kennel as you have shown. Thanks so much for the great information!
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    Icelandic Chickens

    I've been trying to let my hens hatch their chicks on their own, but I found a dead baby chick outside the nesting box today. So sad. The first hen went broody 23 days ago. The second hen got into the box and laid a couple more eggs. Now they're both stuffed into the same nesting box. I don't...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Thanks for all the great info. She did leave the eggs for a while yesterday and I took a peak. Looks like only three eggs. I only have two hens and a roo. They have a protected pen, and I also let them do some free ranging. The coup is 4'x5'.. The food is right next to the nesting box and the...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    One of my Icelandic hens seems to be making a real effort to hatch her (and probably her sister's) eggs. At first she was acting really boody, but she'd easily abandon the eggs to go play with the roo and other hen. The past two days, she's been on the eggs full time (I think; I'm at work during...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Just lost one of my Icies to a hawk today. Think it was Roadie, who was always a bit off on her own. I feel terrible that I left them out with snow on the ground. They mostly stayed in the coop/pen, but it warmed up today and they headed for the barn. My husband spotted the hawk in front of the...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    My chickens are back roosting on the roof of the coop again. I changed the height of the roost inside of the coop because it was across from the open window, and it is getting too cold for them to sit there. Last night it was raining hard, and they begrudgingly roosted inside. Most nights I have...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Finally got a photo of all of the chickens together. From the right they are Sid, Nancy, Jett and Roadie. Their colors have gotten much nicer as they have gotten older. Nancy is lighter with less grey than Roadie.
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Viking Chickens vs. Wild Turkeys Wish I had a photo, but I had a flock of wild turkeys pass through my yard while the chickens were free ranging. The Icies ran right up to one of the turkeys, who then proceeded to approach them sideways, wing flapping. My brave Viking chickens swiftly...
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