Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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OMG - Yay for live chicks and Thank You to Growgel. Poor babies. I'm sure they are happy to be out of that box.

Honestly, I am a ringing endorsement for Gro-Gel now! I really believe that is what kept them alive, don't you think? I mean, not only alive, but also full of vigor! They are totally amazing, running around and chattin' up a storm in there! I have never bought or used any Gro-Gel, but I am now ordering it to use when I ship chicks!

 

[Camelot Farms]

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Yes Ma'am. 2 Olives and a BCM?

Mama broody has 5 of the Icelandics and I let sit about 5 hours and popped them in! Cant wait til candle day.'

Love my Icelandic loving friends!

WOOO HOOOO ! ! ! I hope you have a great hatch!

The surprise eggs are all from pen 3. That is a Lavender Ameraucana rooster over a bunch of different layers. Those 3 should all hatch into Olive Egger pullets (I ordered no roosters in that pen).

Can you believe how dark my Olive Egger lays? Isn't that the darkest egg you've ever seen? I love my girl. Everyone always wants her eggs (I'm talking about egg customers that actually eat the eggs!). Anyway, it is so dark I wanted to cross her back to a blue egg gene, or it would get to looking like a dark Marans egg I think.

I have never seen one that dark! My kids were like 'can we eat this one?' *sigh* Silly kids.

 

[AK Michelle]

Do any of your chicks look like they have a mullet? It's business in the front and party in the back

 

[Asgard Farms]

I am getting started building an Icelandic Coop & Run

So far I have decided on no nesting boxes - going to use apple baskets with hay in them
Roosts very high up in the eves
Sand floor

Any suggestions for the run? I do a course sand in the run after they eat all the grass in it. Mix in some DE and there is no smell at all.
(I have semi urban chickens)
Was thinking to put a tin roof on the run for protection from the sun (central texas)

Any suggestions on what else they might like in there? Maybe a big "tree" for them to perch on outside and watch us in the pool?


I so can't wait to get my eggs from Kathy. My 41st Birthday is next week and all I can think of is April 2nd!

Daria

 

[Happy Chooks]

I never thought I'd be saying this but.........................doesn't it look adorable with a mullet!

Daria........Tin gets really hot in summer. (It would be like an oven here) If you could go with the corrugated roofing that's not tin, that may work better.

 

[Greybear23]

You might paint the tin white and I would add some kind of shade on atleaste part of the west side of the run. You could put some form of insulation on under the tin, don't use Styrofoam as the chickens will destroy it eventually, and they will eat it. You might try the old type black board insulation. I use feed sacks about three layers thick on top of my wire rabbit cages for insulation under a sheet of tin. Seems to help. Or you could just put a plywood roof on it and paint it good with a good Porch and deck paint to stand the weather, with a little slope on it to drain. Lynn in Okla.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

I agree with Greybear. The walls of my coop are OSB instead of plywood, and I just painted them with the white elastomeric roof coating to seal them and reflect the heat. Seems to be holding up well. And chickens love to eat styrofoam.

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

Mary, I've got 3 incubators plugged in and running.

Thank you again!..

On a sadder note, when I went out to the brooder the feed the younungs, one of the Icelandics from the last hatch was a pancake.

It was the biggest of the bunch, don't know what happened.

 

[The Sheriff]

Bob's Henhouse :

Mary, I've got 3 incubators plugged in and running.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67557_100_1214.jpg
Thank you again!..

On a sadder note, when I went out to the brooder the feed the younungs, one of the Icelandics from the last hatch was a pancake.

It was the biggest of the bunch, don't know what happened.

BOB! Where is your hygrometer in those incubators? How are you going to manage humidity? OMG, I would not have sent you eggs had I known you were so careless!

Unbelievable. He probably doesn't even have heat lamps and brooders ready.

On a sadder note, sorry about losing one. Sometimes we just never know.

Enjoy your hatch, that is, if you get anything out of that antiquated incubator system you are using!

 

[Bob's Henhouse]

You are hilarious! I'm betting on the newer blue NN model bator on the right. I just had it recalibrated, seemed to be running about 1/2 degree warm at first. The buff one on the left is the older model, hasn't seen much use, but seems in good working order. Can't remember what the black one in the middle is, but seems to be functioning. May have to put a thermohygrometer in there to keep tabs on it.