Icelandic Chickens

[I Love Layers]

here are the Icelandics. The hen is beat up as she was with lots of roosters

 

[I Love Layers]

What does everyone charge for chicks? Or what did you pay for your chicks? I'm thinking of building a breeding barn and need to choose the 5 breeds that would occupy the 3 spaces.

 

[Icies]

I purchased icelandic eggs not chicks. But I would have to say it depends on the breed, as well as supply & demand. Chicks are 2/$1 at the local TSC right now.

 

[Icies]

I think I've got my first broody. No rooster so she is sitting in vain...

 

[NotAFarm]

If you want to increase your Icelandic flock, there are breeders that ship eggs...I'm no longer one of them.
If you have friends that would like to increase their flocks, get some of their eggs and let your hen raise them. I do this for my friends that don't have broody breeds and don't want to fool with an incubator. When the hen weans the chicks, they go back to the owner. It is a win-win.

 

[Icies]

I think I do remember you doing that for someone else. I'll have to see if I can find anyone interested if she stays this way. For now I just picked her up & took all the eggs.

 

[yochickiemomma]

I snuck a few Icelandic eggs under a cochin hen yesterday

it's her first time going broody. Hubby is NOT going to be happy when he finds out. I have 10 bantam chicks I'm moving outside this weekend the last thing I need is more right now.

 

[Mc620]

a chick keeping from last hatch

 

[suchcutenails]

Good afternoon fellow chicken lovers! I have 11 Icelandic eggs on day 14 under a good, broody, Buff Orpington mama

These will be my first of this breed and I am very excited about them!
I'm looking for sexing tips. Are they similar to other breeds...for example, slow feathering are males? Or maybe feather sexing? I assume early wattles and large red combs on the males? I've had good luck with being able to spot the little cockerels in my previous hatches of other breeds, but I had the advantage of reading through a lot of tips on this website. I haven't been able to find much info on these! Can you help me know what to watch for?

 

[yochickiemomma]

Oscar my Icelandic hen has decided she wants to be broody too! Tried and succeeded taking away her eggs last night but not without a battle wound. Lol she bit my hand. If she's setting again today I might just let her go.unfortunately all I have is Icelandic mix eggs to go under her. If I would have known I would have saved a few more of her eggs. Oh well.