Icelandic Chickens

[Jake Levi]

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One great looking Rooster ! Have you weighed him? I really lke his conformation. Was he showing off to a hen?

 

[sherrya]

I have no idea what he weighs, I would guess less than 5lbs. He is always posing when I have a camera. Wish the rest of my Icelandics were as easy to photograph.

 

[Jake Levi]

I would love to have a 5lb one, but he is probably less, he does have excellent conformation, brick in flesh. He is a beauty.

I am going to have 3 separate breeding groups this spring, but will be rehoming one this summer after I get some eggs/chicks from all. So I will be posting here, most likely a beautiful mottled son of Isi, and 3 pullets, maybe one hen. I hope to get someone else in MI started in Icelandics, so you Michiganders if you have friends interested I will have a starter group for them.

 

[RedIII]

Wow, sherrya! Your rooster is gorgeous! Pardon me if I drool a little.

Welcome, Sporteltx! You have some very pretty birds

Your Flotti also reminds me of my Flekka.

 

[Sporteltx]

Flekka is very pretty. Is she laying yet? I can't wait until my icies start laying. Hows everyone's birds handling this long winter? My birds are a little spoiled. I turn on their heat lamp if it gets below freezing. My coop isnt insolated and there is a lot of draft but I think it will do well in the summer.

 

[RedIII]

Thank you. Yes, she's a year and a half, now. Although she took a break through most of winter. I can tell her eggs from the other two hens because hers are slightly cream-tinted, where theirs are just white. She's from the line from Lyle Behl, and from what I understand, the slight egg tint happens with some birds of that bloodline. It had me freaked out at first

My Icelandics have been fine with the cold. The juveniles are still getting used to it, but they bounce back fast. I have a heat lamp in the coop for any of my hens that get cold, but I never see the Icelandics in there unless they're laying an egg. They're pretty contented to wander the yard and forage for food, though they avoid the snow when possible. I can't blame them. I'm sure their tootsies get cold.

 

[Jake Levi]

We are having a real Michigan winter, no warming on our part of the globe, thankfully not yet the -20s we have had other years but it has been down to -15, this morning its -6. I have 100 Watt lights in most pens, especially by the nests, I was getting a lot of frozen cracked eggs, fewer now. By the end of feb we usually have the sap starting in the Maples and that season starts but its normally still winter up to the beginning of April whatever the calendar says.

I am moving the late hatch youngsters out of the basement this afternoon into what was the rooster pen. I will put a couple lights out there as I also have two of the summer hatch pullets there that are starting to lay. There is real reason to increase the number of Rose Combs in this flock. I am also hoping the added feathering of crests will help.

Life goes on, and its better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[Nickeyo]

if you think icelandics try bantam phoenix. my hens and rooster can fly straight up onto the top of my house. they have flown half way across my field then glided the rest. heres a pic of them of on a flap

 

[acemario]

I just set 8 Icelandics in the bator. Therefore, I must subscribe to this thread! I'm looking forward to reading through some pages for more info on the breed.

 

[RedIII]

if you think icelandics try bantam phoenix. my hens and rooster can fly straight up onto the top of my house. they have flown half way across my field then glided the rest. heres a pic of them of on a flap

Or turkeys. Good night, I never realized they could fly from one house roof to another two lots away until I had to catch mine.

I just set 8 Icelandics in the bator. Therefore, I must subscribe to this thread! I'm looking forward to reading through some pages for more info on the breed.

Yay! Welcome, Ace! You are going to be hooked