Icelandic Chickens

[gimmie birdies]

I like blue.

 

[mlm Mike]

I´ve got 32 Icelandic eggs in the incubator now. Out of 36 ordered 32 made it intact. Have hopes of hatching a good starter flock of them and maybe getting more eggs from another line to add diversity. Bonus is they came packed in some kind of wool (alpaca maybe?). I will use that coyote trapping this winter (they like the smell and it holds scents well) so the packing will help protect the chicks twice over. Just nervously waiting and monitoring temperature now.

Congrates! If the eggs came from who I'm thinking, it would be Icelandic Sheep wool.

 

[CoopCop]

They came from Mack Hill Farm. Seemed to be great folks to deal with. Hope they aren't against trapping, but that stuff will be too useful for me to waste. Coyotes just love the smell of wool, and they unfortunately also like chickens and calves.

 

[mlm Mike]

They came from Mack Hill Farm. Seemed to be great folks to deal with. Hope they aren't against trapping, but that stuff will be too useful for me to waste. Coyotes just love the smell of wool, and they unfortunately also like chickens and calves.

I was thinking they were from somewhere else, not certain what livestock Mack Hill Farm has. Good luck with the coyotes.

 

[drumstick diva]

Little Chicken Spy - in photo of alleged roosters I like the middle one, looks like he is wearing a toupe

 

[LittleChickSpy]

I´ve got 32 Icelandic eggs in the incubator now. Out of 36 ordered 32 made it intact. Have hopes of hatching a good starter flock of them and maybe getting more eggs from another line to add diversity. Bonus is they came packed in some kind of wool (alpaca maybe?). I will use that coyote trapping this winter (they like the smell and it holds scents well) so the packing will help protect the chicks twice over. Just nervously waiting and monitoring temperature now.

Icelandic sheep wool! I got wonderful diversity from my eggs from that farm! I got a small amount of eggs from another seller, and the chicks all looked very similar (though, they're looking slightly different now, I still have 2 that look alike, male and female, and 2 others that look very similar, both female, at 7 weeks from those 4 eggs). The chicks from the eggs packed in wool are quite diverse -- all colors, leg colors, comb types. I am pleased with what I hatched. Hatch rate was good for shipped eggs, too.

Edit: Oh, nevermind! lol. I just saw the other posts. That's not who I ordered from that arrived packed in wool. Interesting!

 

[coldupnorth]

These are the first Icelandics that I've hatched this year (only other batch of chicks I hatched was layers for my DD's 4H).

Hraun is the daddy to most of them Thanks, Other Mary! The picture of Hraun is from last Fall, so he has filled out nicely!

 

[coldupnorth]

Other Mary - Our daughter brought the GNH that we hatched from you to the county fair this year. He won Best of Show in open class for the whole Poultry Barn (100+ birds). Not the greatest photo - but he is a very beautiful and calm bird. His name is Bob.

 

[mlm Mike]

Congratulations!

 

[RedIII]

Congrats, Laurie! Wow, pretty roo, and cute daughter And congrats on the new batch of chickies! They look wonderful.

Mike, love the flock picture. You have a lot of blue genetics in your birds. Very pretty!

Don't the blues run stronger in the Behl line? Anyone?