Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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I was hoping you'd get that coop done so they could spend the winter at your place!

 

[cherylcohen]

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She had absorbed all the yolk, there was no blood, she was just tightly squeezed into a ball by the inner membrane. It was the kind of chick you often see on eggtopsies with just the tip of the beak poking out and the rest eerily still under the membrane. But this little guy was still fighting to get out. I have tried my best not to help and to leave the job of hatching up to the chick. But in this case I knew what had happened to these eggs and I decided to help. So far I do not regret it. She is standing tall this morning and running in the brooder with the bigger chicks, eating, drinking, pooping, and sleeping. Oh, and posing for pictures!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_martha_1_of_1-6.jpg

Looks really good, many times when I've helped they are splayed leg or curly toed, but she looks fabulous, good job Dr. Warden...I give them lots of warm wet mash wehn I have one in the brooder like this

Ha Ha, but not really too funny...confession...I made up some warm mash and obviously made it too wet, one of the BCMs I'm growing out from Wynettes eggs got stuck in it like the-tar-pits in jurassic times, I had to wash her all off and take away the mash till it hardened more....

 

[cherylcohen]

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I was hoping you'd get that coop done so they could spend the winter at your place!

We need a contest of how many babies we are growing out through the winter. I think I'm approaching 50 help-me-Rhonda

 

[Noncentzter]

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She had absorbed all the yolk, there was no blood, she was just tightly squeezed into a ball by the inner membrane. It was the kind of chick you often see on eggtopsies with just the tip of the beak poking out and the rest eerily still under the membrane. But this little guy was still fighting to get out. I have tried my best not to help and to leave the job of hatching up to the chick. But in this case I knew what had happened to these eggs and I decided to help. So far I do not regret it. She is standing tall this morning and running in the brooder with the bigger chicks, eating, drinking, pooping, and sleeping. Oh, and posing for pictures!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_martha_1_of_1-6.jpg

She is so cute! It'll be interesting to see what color she finally grows out to be!!

 

[The Sheriff]

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You know Sheryl that is exactly why I stopped helping chicks out of the shell. It was horrible to realize I had helped one out that nature never meant to get out. Leg problems seemed to always be present. Not nearly as much with the Icelandic's though. After Blue Mama's attempted murder on these eggs I just felt the need to help. Hopefully I won't regret it in a few days. Or months when Kelly comes over and declares her to be a rooster.

That is funny about the mash! I have been supplementing the starter crumbles with a little finely mashed scrambled eggs with sand sprinkled on it. I have been putting sand in my brooders since I posted about pasty butt many moons ago. Someone suggested it and I have used it since. I did have one little Icelandic with a touch of pasty butt in the big brooder yesterday. But the garage door accidentally got left open a couple of nights ago and their brooder got too cool. That is the only case of PB I have had with an Icelandic. I may give the wet mash a try, just with less water!

 

[NotAFarm]

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I printed out Sigrid's posting from earlier in this thread (June of 2010) and she says "Genetic research shows them to be 78% different from all other chickens in the world. This is why it is important not to mix them with other breeds, once we do that, we can not get it back." If I knew how to get back to the middle of a 100+ page thread and how to post the link, I would, but since I don't, I am quoting her off my print-out. Breeds accepted by the APA for showing have a standard and they all are suppose to look like that standard. Icelandics don't look the same because their importance lies in their gene-pool, not in their conformity to a standard. My Wyandottes and Java I want to look like they are "suppose" to look..............but my Icelandics, it's not about looking alike, it's about keeping the genes from being lost.

Seinna, The Other Mary

 

[The Sheriff]

Well said Mary!

 

[kathyinmo]

Official news report here .....

This is FOR SURE, an Icelandic egg!

Yup, they are penned and laying in the nest!

 

[The Sheriff]

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[kathyinmo]

I have just plugged in the bator.

Believe it or not, it was unplugged.