Icelandic Chickens

[KaldakurFarm]

Kobbi is a good looking guy! Is that a little tan on his legs?

Yes he is a tri.

 

[NotAFarm]

Amy and Mike need to knock-it-off with the Icelandic dog pictures....I don't need a dog, I don't need a dog, I want a dog....I don't need a dog!

My Icelandic chicks don't always show signs of crest when first hatched but will after they are a few weeks old and the down is lost and feathers start coming in.

 

[drumstick diva]

warning: subliminal message to follow MARY NEEDS A DOG, MARY WANTS A DOG, MARY NEEDS A DOG, MARY WANTS A DOG. was that subtle enough?

 

[NotAFarm]

warning: subliminal message to follow MARY NEEDS A DOG, MARY WANTS A DOG, MARY NEEDS A DOG, MARY WANTS A DOG. was that subtle enough?

You are NOT helping!!

Icelandic CHICKENS, Icelandic CHICKENS, Icelandic CHICKENS

 

[RedIII]

REDIII  either your rooster is the luckiest bird on earth or just plain suicidal.  I hope his progeny aren't running around  "flirting" with death.  Maybe he needs some counseling

I think it was about a  7-10 days  re: Lukka   Mary mentioned it on Stella's Social Club.  She found her dead sitting on 3 eggs.  She was a devoted broody to the very end.

Oh dear It must be a bad season for the veterans.

To my knowledge, his offspring aren't particularly suicidal. I think :/ Pretty sure....

 

[KaldakurFarm]

Amy and Mike need to knock-it-off with the Icelandic dog pictures....I don't need a dog, I don't need a dog, I want a dog....I don't need a dog!

My Icelandic chicks don't always show signs of crest when first hatched but will after they are a few weeks old and the down is lost and feathers start coming in.

But they are so cute, fuzzy and lovable!!!!

Icelandics are addicting, first you get a horse, then you get a dog, then you get more horses, then a few sheep, a dozen chickens... it doesn't end!!! You try to cut back on horses because you think your getting old, and you get more sheep to make up for it. You try to limit your sheep and you get chickens, you don't have enough chickens so you get an incubator. Anyone with a child knows the "If you give a moose a muffin" book (it keeps wanting one more thing to go with the previous thing)... mine would be titled "If you give a girl an Icelandic"... Story of my life - and loving every crazy Icelandic inspired minute of it!!!

 

[kathleens1979]

Thanks all, I appreciate the cheerleading.  Everyone is so nice here!  

I woke up to 5 chicks, I got a blue one I think, it's the same grey/yellow that mlmddh has - YAY!!!  One is yellow and the other 3 are chipmunk colored.  There are a couple more working to get out now.  I don't think any are crested, still hopeful about that though!

LOL, my daughter the "chicken whistler" - Love it!!!  I'll tell her that when she gets home from school.  Talk about one excited kid this morning, she couldn't hardly sit and eat her breakfast.

I'll get pics when they fluff up.  They are so tiny and cute!  

I don't know about everyone's experiences, but my chicks didn't show their crested-ness (lol) until they were a couple weeks old. They started to get little tufts that grew into tiny crests. Give it time!

 

[kathleens1979]

Couple of things:
1. I took eggs into the science teacher at the high school and we hatched chicks with her class. Hatching is always great (I'll be the first to admit I'm kind of an addict), but the kids reaction to the event made it the best hatch ever!!! They were sooooo excited, and they couldn't get enough of the chicks. I loved it!!!
2. How do you sell your Icelandic chicks? I have plenty of experience selling my EE chicks, but none with the Icelandics since I am new to them. I wouldn't mind giving some away. I would like to pay it forward since Mary gave me my starter flock of 4. I would like to do that for someone else. Any suggestions on how to find special people who want to keep the breed alive and pure? How do you present them so people understand how special they are? I definitely need to figure this out or I will be overrun by chickens soon. Can't keep them all, even though I kind of love having a HUGE flock.
3. I think Icelandics are definitely smarter than other chicken breeds. I finally got my gazillion chicks (really only 35, but it felt like a gazillion) out into growing pens. The Icelandics and EE chicks along with my lone Australorp pullet are now bunkies. The Icelandics all figured out right away that the boxes on the ground were for sleeping and staying out of the wind. The EEs not so much. I have had to crawl into the pen with the chicks and place the EEs into the boxes repeatedly so they wouldn't just spend the night out in the open. Gah!!!! I'll be glad when we have their permanent coop built and I know who are boys and who are girls so I can thin the herd. I call the growing pens Camp Smallwood.
4. Just checked on the broody's eggs today. She was sitting on a pile that were who knows how old since I found them under our coop. Only three were growing, but I'm still excited!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Never read "If you give a moose a muffin," BUT did read "If you give a mouse a Cookie," believe me I never would. My son's favorite used to be "The Hungry Caterpillar "

 

[KaldakurFarm]

Never read "If you give a moose a muffin," BUT did read "If you give a mouse a Cookie," believe me I never would. My son's favorite used to be "The Hungry Caterpillar "

If you give a moose a muffin is the same author - same idea We also had the Hungry Caterpillar.


Not the best shot of them, but it's what I could get this morning. Lots of little red chipmunks. One of the yellow ones is lighter than the rest and it has two blue/grey spots on it - very odd. I only get to keep 4 (unless more hatch - had 4 more hatch last night, so still going), it's going to be hard to pick - but that little blue/grey one is staying for sure!