Icelandic Chickens

[Hillbilly Hen]

on your neighbor's shock Mary!

x2

Just make sure you have that incubator free to add eggs for the Easter Hatch! Lots of contests and great prizes are in the works!

I plan on it Kathy. I hope to hatch some more NH's for myself.

No, but my male peafowl is showing signs what my turkeys had- Mycoplasma. I mean, how could that had happened? I was so careful, and did not let anyone come to the farm, and had disinfected everything. I am so depressed. I am having the sick peacock, an Icelandic roo, and a Tomaru roo's blood drawn to be sent to the lab. I am praying that is something else that is not serious, then I will not have to kill all of my baby chicks, and adult birds that I have. It hurts.

Daron, I pray that it is nothing serious!

 

[Farmerboy16]

The vet came today, and took the blood sample from the ailing peacock, and Fridrik, and the Tomaru roo. I will know the results within a week. Now the wait begins.

The Icelandics seems healthy and are laying well, got 3 eggs from 3 hens yesterday. Just will have to wait and see if they are carrying the disease.

 

[AK Michelle]

yay, I finally have a couple minutes to post here today. I told you I would share pictures of the mixed birds I hatched on New Years. This batch was a random collection of eggs from the flock. In the dead of winter all the egg layers and Icelandics share common space so a lot of these had Icelandic roos over an assortment of hens. I also have 3 other roos, although it doesn't appear from this sample that they were getting much luck with the ladies. The layer coops roos are a silkie, a bantie cochin and a mille fleur d'uccle. NON of these birds look anything like any of those daddies...

I would say the Icelandic genes are strong. And NONE of these will be going in the Icelandic flock. These are egg layers only, not breeders. My pure Icelandics are easily identifiable and only the eggs from after their segregation from the general population will be used to promote future Icelandic generations.
















I love the poof on the little white one but I'm kinda bummed he's a roo

 

[NotAFarm]

Daron, I hope it's a pea fowl disease and not a chicken one.

 

[AK Michelle]

The vet came today, and took the blood sample from the ailing peacock, and Fridrik, and the Tomaru roo. I will know the results within a week. Now the wait begins.

The Icelandics seems healthy and are laying well, got 3 eggs from 3 hens yesterday. Just will have to wait and see if they are carrying the disease.

I'm sending good vibes...

 

[Jake Levi]

Welcome back Michelle ! How are your birds doing overal? I read that Anchorage had record lows and deep snow both, how did your area do?

 

[BostonBryce]

I thought I would post this for my husband since he keeps coming in telling me about this little guy. Boston is out building a grow out pin for the chicks and he kept hearing a slight crowing sound from the barn. So he finally went in to find out what was going on and this little guy was on the feeder trying to crow. He is one from our NYD hatch.

 

[NotAFarm]

I thought I would post this for my husband since he keeps coming in telling me about this little guy. Boston is out building a grow out pin for the chicks and he kept hearing a slight crowing sound from the barn. So he finally went in to find out what was going on and this little guy was on the feeder trying to crow. He is one from our NYD hatch.

Here ya go! He is going to be one "hunk-a-hunk-a burning love"!!

 

[AK Michelle]

What a handsome guy

 

[kathyinmo]

Put it in a ziplock bag and then tap it with a mallet. I did that to mine to see if it had been fertile but it was just rotten egg. Emu eggs can get bacteria in them easily right after being laid and then it multiplies as they incubate. I guess it is difficult to coerce an emu to lay her eggs on dry ground with lots of soft nesting material. Go figure.

I was reading yesterday that some people in the hatch-a-long are seeing movement as early as day 31.

Tyler was just thrilled to get the job of checking it. OMG, it stunk to high heaven!

It was all yolk, nothing growing. I'm glad about that. I would have hated to seen something that died.