Icelandic Chickens

[The Sheriff]

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Really nice Mary! Thanks for sharing that. My whole barn isn't big enough to paint the names of my birds. I actually haven't named them. There are just too many. They all answer to "Pretty" or "Pretty Boy."

 

[NotAFarm]

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Really nice Mary! Thanks for sharing that. My whole barn isn't big enough to paint the names of my birds. I actually haven't named them. There are just too many. They all answer to "Pretty" or "Pretty Boy."

After this winter, my four probably wish they were part of your big flock!! It's suppose to be 47 here today but it's still 39. The sun is out though, so maybe...................we'll I'm off to get some outside work done: picking up branches that have fallen throughout the winter and putting them in our burn pile and checking to see if Chickie Mama is still sitting now that's she's in the broody box.

that she is......and tonight she will be getting some REAL eggs!!!

 

[AK Michelle]

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Awww, Anna looks liek a sweetie. thanks for sharing.

I love all the pictures everyone is posting, especially the ones without snow! Our days are getting longer, we'll get a bit more snow over the next couple months but it will melt quickly each time and then we'll be moving on to Spring and Summer.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

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Snow?! For a couple more months?!!? It was almost 90 here yesterday and continuing through next week. Bring us some snow to help cool things off!

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

I love the pics. Especially Mary's pictorials. You all have way more energy and creativity than I do.

I still haven't rounded mine up for a group photo yet, plus I want to post whatever cross mine were that came out of my green eggs. They are about 5 days old. They all get frisky with each other, so there is absolutely NO telling who the daddy is. Plus, I have a duck that could use counseling. It's really infatuated with one of the roosters I have segregated to ship off to NoSkiveez for a friend of theirs for processing. I know they both have feathers, and I'm open minded and all, but seriously....

I go to put everyone in the coop and I have to chase the duck around the rooster jail 3 or 4 times before I can get her to go in to bed. Probably hoping for a conjugal visit before.....

Anyway, my boys are supposed to come over tomorrow, I'll enlist them to help round them up for pics.

 

[AK Michelle]

I'm perplexed. I was adding water to the bator and since it was open anyway... I candled.

As I've said before, all were set the same day but some eggs seemed to be maturing faster than others. Now we are on day 16, I should be putting them into lockdown on Sunday and they should be hatching Tuesday and Wednesday. In theory.

Tonight it appears that some are much closer, the airsacs are much bigger and the chicks are pushing against the membrane into the airsac. Others look like they have 4 or 5 days left. They still have room to grow and stretch without protruding into the airsac space.

Has anyone ever experienced eggs that seem to be developing at two separate rates?

 

[Jake Levi]

Hi Michelle

Yes, I always took it for some eggs were laid before others and the embryo got a head start on the others.

 

[Jake Levi]

Where can we get that Logo shown on the coops?

 

[NotAFarm]

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I'll be interested to hear the answer on this. I know I've read on BYC of someone having what seems to be differences in development rates but don't remember

where it was I saw it. I thought it may have been Mahonri is the NYDH. My own opinion is that some eggs are warmed more that others when layed, either by the day temperature or the amount of time the hen or other hens spend on the next before collection. I believe this could "jump start" those eggs. Don't have any proof, not a scientist, JMO.

 

[NotAFarm]

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If you go to post 1286 on this thread and go to the link for the magazine article, you'll see the logo in the article. I had a friend paint mine for me.