Icelandic Chickens

[Jake Levi]

Mary I'd collect eggs from both hens, if laying and incubate then asap. If not laying then from their daughters. Better too many then not enough.

 

[NotAFarm]

Ah........."Better too many" is not in the DHs vocabulary when it comes to chickens!

We have neighbors (pretty close ones) and HOA rules so I am walking a thin-line on two fronts when it comes to my flock. I try to keep the flock within the 20ish range in the winter.......numbers now are higher than that because I have the German New Hampshires too. I am trying to find a home for them and then will only have my Icelandics and a few other "odd" hens that lay a brown or blue egg.
I have not been letting the flock out unless I am able to be outside with them and have not seen any sign of the hawk.

that it was a migrating one that has passed through, but I"m not taking any chances at this point!

Here is a pic I took of Eyja and her chick out in the chicken tractor on the 24th........it looks much different now but haven't taken any pictures lately......maybe this weekend.......

 

[lalaland]

Hello,
I have some young chickens, about 12 weeks, that were hatched for me by a woman who hatches to order - my order got a bit mixed up, so out of the 16 chicks ordered, I got a very strange assortment.

I did order icelandics, and think I have two roos and two pullets. Mind taking a look and letting me know if you think these are icelandic?






and I'm wondering about the choc pullet with the little crest sitting with her buddies:


thanks for your help!

 

[debs_flock]

They look to be Icelandics. What all did you order?

One of my pullets.

 

[lalaland]

huh! your pullet looks like a crested cream legbar pullet! I find Icelandics so confusing.

I ordered 4 each of icelandics, swedish flower hens, crested cream legbars, and superbluelayers (cross between araucana & leghorn), and 3 auracanas, plus when I picked up the day old chicks I also got one lav orp, and a choc maran.

But, none of them are swedish flower hens, and I did get 3 sulmtaler pullets. this is a pic of one of the sulmtalers:



I think the roos in the pics I posted first are icelandic, and I thought perhaps the last choc one was a choc maran. The woman who hatched them said she thought maybe the first pullet in the pics above was a banty. She really mixed up the hatch - when I went to pick them up, she had 4 kiddie pools full of various assorted chicks, and she just pulled them out of them. I didn't understand how she knew what chick was what....guess she didn't

this is a pic of the one crested cream legbar pullet that I got, see it looks like your pic?

 

[debs_flock]

No, I raise Legbars also. The one I posted was an Icelandic.

I guess you'll know when they start to lay, blue eggs for the CCL and white eggs for the Icelandic.

Good luck.

ETA - in her defense, I can raise a tub full of chicks together and recognize which breed by looking. When you look at enough chicks, you can tell.

 

[lalaland]

wow, so you raise both icelandics and legbars? How cool.

what did you think about the last photo of that sort of choc colored crested pullet? I was supposed to get a choc maran, not sure if that is her or if she is icelandic.

I think the woman who hatched just got overwhelmed and got them mixed up. There were probably 200 chicks in the 4 pools, all less than a week old, and representing I think she said more than a dozen breeds. I was just disappointed that out of the 20 chicks, there were at least 5 of breeds I didn't order. I've just about got everyone sorted out, I think.....

your icelandic pullet sitting in the hand looks totally sweet.

 

[debs_flock]

what did you think about the last photo of that sort of choc colored crested pullet? I was supposed to get a choc maran, not sure if that is her or if she is icelandic.

She looks to be an Icelandic, she definitely not a marans. I raise them as well - I have about 30 different breeds

Once you're used to looking at chicks, you can pick them out of a mixed tub at a glance. I occasionally get one that has me stumped, I just hang onto it for a week or two until I'm sure.

You look at things like color, markings, feathers (crests, feathered legs, etc), size, shape, leg color.

 

[lalaland]

wow! 30 breeds, that is amazing. I assume you are running a couple of flocks, not 30 flocks?
I'm kind of disappointed that she isn't a maran, as one supposedly was fished out of the pools for me. I don't have any other pullets that could possibly be marans, the two I was uncertain of are the two you are thinking are icelandics.


want to take a guess about this guy?

 

[debs_flock]

Could be an Icelandic as well. He is quite leggy though. It's hard since they can have any look.

And no, all my breeds are penned individually.