Icelandic Chickens

[ReiMiraa]

Ok who has some hatching eggs i can buy for putting in the bator at week 15th of may?
PM me with price please. zip is 98847

 

[Jake Levi]

Michelle that dark one looks like it is going to have a very interesting pattern, these are looking great!

I am wondering on the Icelandics, does the dark parts get larger or smaller? I would suspect larger.

The 29th mine go into lockdown.

 

[phasianidae]

3 chicks!

Two blond and one black

, the black one had the icky stuff stuck to it

so I hope it will be ok. All have rose combs

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[Jake Levi]

Congratulations Ryan, anymore pipping?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Michelle.......that 2nd chick I think is a neat color. I haven't seen that color chick before. I bet the last one ends up with a crest. So sorry you had to cull the chick - I had to do the same (non icelandic) a few weeks ago.

Ryan.....congrats!!!!! I hope more are on their way.

zekii.......Mary had her Icelandics in with her layers for quite a while without any problems. I'm sure she'll be here sometime today.

 

[Mahonri]

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Wish I could help you, but my eldest icelandic pullets are only 3.5 months old.

 

[The Sheriff]

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I had, until December, kept my Icelandics with my layers without any problems. However, the only roosters I had were Icelandic. Even in a mixed flock my Icelandics tended to stick to themselves.

 

[phasianidae]

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The fourth was stuck so I helped it, I now have four

Unfortunately, the two I helped seem quite week

Hopefully they will perk up! so now I have the two week ones in the bater and two in the brooder.

 

[Jake Levi]

Hey Kim

The eggs are HERE

You Ladies are sure showing me some nice packing ideas!

If even a 50% hatch happens I should wind up with a real nice flock!

Jake

 

[AK Michelle]

Finally tally, 8 new Icelandics, 6 are darker and 2 are yellow (one with a gray stripe running down her back)

2 were stuck so I helped, I dabbed water on the membrane that had gotten dry and hard and did my best to unglue them. Once they were free of the egg I set them back in the hatcher to stay warm, after about 30 minutes I went to check on them and they were glueing themselves in place so I fixed a bowl of hot water and gave them baths, they are ridiculously hard to wash cause they are so small. Fortunately Tom is a human heater so I could work on one for a few minutes, then hand it back to him to keep warm while I worked on the other. Then I popped them in a bowl and put them back in the incubator with the turkey eggs so they could fluff without being kicked around by anyone else in the hatcher

This morning they seem a little smaller and lighter than their siblings but they each drank some water and when last seen they were hunkered down under the light in the brooder, resting with the last one that hatched late last night.

I'm going to double check but I didn't see any other life in the other 6 eggs.