Icelandic Chickens

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Jake,

Great research! We have a regular guest here at the Coffee House that is from Iceland. She tells me where she grew up the people fed the chickens remains from the cleaning of fish.

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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Bambi,

Thanks you are so sweet!

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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Mahonri! Congrats!

You got the Icelandics like crazy now!

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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Oh yeah and those will be steady now!

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

[goslinghunter]

32 miles south of Aberdeen or 7 miles north of Redfield! My greatgrand parents in Mapleton Iowa,Lyle Behl, and Sigrids stock and they are kept seperate by strains! I have 119 hens and 15 roosters!

 

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Daria,

How are those eggs going? Is the bator doing alright? How bout the new little Ice Lady, has she calmed at all?

Andy in Fredericksburg

 

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How many different strains do you have, and do you ship eggs?

 

[Asgard Farms]

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Daria,

How are those eggs going? Is the bator doing alright? How bout the new little Ice Lady, has she calmed at all?

Andy in Fredericksburg

She is doing better, getting used to her new digs
eating up a storm!

Bator is doing fine, planning on candleing in about a week

 

[Happy Chooks]

Funny video Mary! They can't even wait for the door to open!

 

[Jake Levi]

The Icelandic fishing industry provided feed for a number of others, including Silver Fox before the fur market collapsed in the 80s from the anti fur protests. For a while the relatively new pork industry used fish by products for hog feed additives. The still do I think.

The University there is still experimenting with short season grains, even sweet corn, and are making progress, but in a nation of less then a million its hard to progress fast enough to meet the demand.