Icelandic Chickens

[RedIII]

COOPER, sorry to hear about your boy

He looked beautiful.

Janelle, I'd like to know the same thing. I have a chicken (not an Icelandic) that I'm still trying to figure out the gender on, at 6 months of age. "She" looks like a boy in many respects, but did the egg squat for my boyfriend.

 

[mlm Mike]

so my icelandic rooster was reduced to a pile of feathers and a beak.
I am sure he died protecting his girls. I have a huge chicken compound made of chain link fence. 
My feeling is a hawk got him.. to bad the rest of the chickens had to see it.
I do hope it makes them more alert.

I'm so sorry, what a handsome guy.

 

[NotAFarm]

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[janelle18]

awe, sorry to hear that!

 

[Twister-n-Dos]

COOPER, sorry you lost your rooster. Your attitude about it seems admirable.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Cooper- Sorry about that nice roo.

I will be culling 1 of my 2 Icelandic roos due to a defect. He will make a nice chicken pot pie for my birthday dinner on Friday. I know that he will not have much meat, but I had butchered some CX last summer that will go in the pot pie too. It will be my first time to try a non- CX chicken. I am sure that the Icelandic roo will be tasty for he has been free ranging with my flock the past few months.

 

[kimmie6067]

so my icelandic rooster was reduced to a pile of feathers and a beak.
I am sure he died protecting his girls. I have a huge chicken compound made of chain link fence.
My feeling is a hawk got him.. to bad the rest of the chickens had to see it.
I do hope it makes them more alert.

Wow!! Sorry to hear that, he was a beauty!!

I have a coop that is a hex shape and big each side is 7 foot I don't know have to figure out the deminisons but what size of bulb should I use? I have a 250W heat lamp but I don't want that going all day do I? I have a that the heap lamp plugs into that turns it on when it's 35 off at 45 but when its not that cold then what? The run is 7 by 16

 

[Twister-n-Dos]

when its not that cold then what?

Check out this thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/421122/think-its-too-cold-for-your-chickens-think-again

Chickens can take a lot of cold.

 

[debs_flock]

Cooper- Sorry about that nice roo.

I will be culling 1 of my 2 Icelandic roos due to a defect. He will make a nice chicken pot pie for my birthday dinner on Friday.

I know that he will not have much meat, but I had butchered some CX last summer that will go in the pot pie too. It will be my first time to try a non- CX chicken. I am sure that the Icelandic roo will be tasty for he has been free ranging with my flock the past few months.

We eat our Campines all the time. They make about a 2-3 pound bird dressed, perfect for the two of us.

Deb

 

[janelle18]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got my first Icelandic egg today!!! Not sure what hen laid it, but they are all about 24 weeks old! One interesting thing is the size of the egg... all my other larger breeds laid much smaller eggs to start with. But this Icelandic egg is HUGE for the hen's first egg.


The other eggs in the box are BR, LS and Dorking


in comparison with a light sussex egg

My freaking laying icelandics strike again...