Icelandic Chickens

[Jake Levi]

Yeah, gotta love those strawberry blondes !!!

But brunettes and redheads have a lot to offer too !

Back to chickens now, I was going to be taking a nice back breasted duckwing to the Chickenstock event in Lansing this Sat but wont make it, the back says no.

So, anyone in driving distance of Harrisville, MI, north of Saginaw, almost on Lake Huron, I have a very nice rooster for you.

I am setting some more eggs tonight, Icelandics and Delawares, next month will set a few of Magnus's eggs, he is the big Pyle/Splash Isi Jr lookalike son, real nice temperament, a gentle 'giant'. But, alas and alack, he is also a big RC and no leg featherings so I will use him this summer for some pullets.

I am planning on some eggs from Shawn in Idaho in July, and hope to get a rooster from that clutch, crested and featherlegged. We shall see. Meanwhile I will be growing out a set of roosters here through fall. Six mos to compare them.

Life goes on, and its good, and better with Icelandics !

 

[Jake Levi]

HURAH !

One of the girls has decided to go broody ! I may just encourage her in this !

I hope that it continues, we'll see. I was going to set some eggs yesterday but held off until tonight.

How are others hatches coming?

 

[ChicwannaB]

my only broody this year has been a white Chantecler, she raised 9 all by herself, I've sold one of them and she has finally pushed them off on their own.
Ive had 6 eggs in the incubator, today there are 4 chicks and 2 eggs to go...all mutts with a Dominique father. Very cute.

 

[Jake Levi]

I am hoping that she continues on, we will see.

Nice pen building weather here so that is the work of the day, it has to be. Should be nice tomorrow for Chickenstock at Lansing, I wish them well, sorry I cant be there.

 

[NotAFarm]

HURAH !

One of the girls has decided to go broody ! I may just encourage her in this !

I hope that it continues, we'll see. I was going to set some eggs yesterday but held off until tonight.

How are others hatches coming?

I love my broodies! Sometimes it is hard getting them situated so that they return to the same nest when they take a break and other hens want to use the nest to lay in. I try to move them to a "private nest" if I have enough of them!

I have to mark eggs I put under the ones in the main coop so I can remove extras each evening.


I had an Icelandic pullet hatch one chick from some shipped eggs that I started in the incubator and gave her. It was very small and died within 24 hours. She was sitting on it when I got home from work yesterday but it was dead so I took it. She spent the night in a coop by herself. I'll have to see today if she has decided to go back to the flock or will try to get back into the nest box.
I have a German New Hampshire that hatched an Icelandic and has a GNH egg still under her. I hope the GNH egg hatches because I don't like "singletons", it is so hard on them when their mommas wean them and they don't have siblings to "hang" with.
I have two Icelandics and a SLW sitting on some of Forsaela's eggs that I started in the incubator and moved when they went broody. They have about a week left.

 

[Happy Chooks]

One of my 5 broodies. My Icelandic hen hatched some olive eggers, a welsummer and a barnevelder. Not the best picture, but she's a very good mother. My BR hatched 2 chicks. I also have an olive egger, welsummer and barnevelder broody. I'm trying to space out their hatches some so there is not so much commotion in the coop.

 

[debs_flock]

One of my 5 broodies. My Icelandic hen hatched some olive eggers, a welsummer and a barnevelder. Not the best picture, but she's a very good mother. My BR hatched 2 chicks. I also have an olive egger, welsummer and barnevelder broody. I'm trying to space out their hatches some so there is not so much commotion in the coop.

So sweet. I have two girls that have been trying for many weeks. I should give them a few eggs or chicks and let them be mommies.

 

[mlm Mike]

One of my 5 broodies. My Icelandic hen hatched some olive eggers, a welsummer and a barnevelder. Not the best picture, but she's a very good mother. My BR hatched 2 chicks. I also have an olive egger, welsummer and barnevelder broody. I'm trying to space out their hatches some so there is not so much commotion in the coop.

Cute!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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She raised babies last year as well.

I confess, I've never broken a broody. I give them all a chance to be mommies.

 

[Jake Levi]

Well mine decided it wasnt worth it, so I will be building a separate broody hutch, away from the hustle and bustle of the flock.

As it stands right now I am going to be incubating eggs up and probably into August, first week anyhow. It needs to be. Today I hope to finish a pen for chicks now in the brooder. With 4 Turkey poults keeping them company.

In July I plan to get some eggs from Shawn in ID for some crests and featherlegged.

Jake