Icelandic Chickens

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Jake, Andy here, thanks for your response, and I use a Brinsea, with auto turner, and digital humidity regulator, just set it up, plug it in, add water to the reservoir and eggs to the incubator, wait 21 days and remove chicks! I love it. You will love the Icelandics!

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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Welcome Barb, icelandics are the most exciting chickens in the whole world, there isn't enough room for all that you will want!

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

[6Happiness]

Just read the article on page 129. I actually hadnt heard of the breed before but they're lovely and look very interesting.


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Can you provide me some examples? If these are truly different/new to what exists in other chicken breeds commonly kept, I would love to help out with the genetics. I've been doing genetic work in the rat fancy since the 90's and am well known there as one of the go-to people for figuring out genetics of newly discovered traits etc. I'm just seriously getting into chicken genetics as I just got a house with the space to keep enough to breed, but once you understand genetic principals in one species its not too hard to pick up new ones- just a matter of memorising the new variety descriptions and their geneotypes.

Where can I get some eggs?

 

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Kathy in MO, here is a website where a lady discusses the tuxedo pattern, she calls it something different but has pics and its the same, she has had roosters and hens.....theres both for sure!

http://www.mackhillfarm.com/

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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Can you provide me some examples? If these are truly different/new to what exists in other chicken breeds commonly kept, I would love to help out with the genetics. I've been doing genetic work in the rat fancy since the 90's and am well known there as one of the go-to people for figuring out genetics of newly discovered traits etc. I'm just seriously getting into chicken genetics as I just got a house with the space to keep enough to breed, but once you understand genetic principals in one species its not too hard to pick up new ones- just a matter of memorising the new variety descriptions and their geneotypes.

Where can I get some eggs?

Keep in communications via the folks on this thread n you will get eggs. As for the genetics and variables...Whewwwww.....review the posts in this thread, search the web, go to flicker.com for millions of pics, there are other icelandic groups on Facebook etc. its way too much for one post,. Welcome to this group and we welcome your knowledge and insights.

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

[kathyinmo]

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Thanks for the link, Andy. I notice that Lisa says they have cream colored eggs from their Icelandics. I wonder how that happened. I prefer to keep this line with the white eggs, as Sigrid said they should be white egg layers.

 

[kathyinmo]

OH MY GOSH ! ! ! I wish you all could have seen what I just saw! These crazy babies (Icelandic chicks) are practically jumping out of the brooder. I just saw one totally go straight up and over the drinking fountain! Like a helicopter does! HONEST ! ! ! I wish I could video that! Once the one did that, then (of course) the others joined in and they were all just flying about in the brooder! These guys just fascinate me!

 

[thebirdguy]

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Wouldn't it be fun to know what was going on in those little feather brains sometimes??

 

[AK Michelle]

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Great link Andy, I am looking forward to reading more over the weekend.

 

[AK Michelle]

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Awesome visual! Thanks