Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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I get my Icelandic eggs next week!!

I can't wait... My mom and sisters came up yesterday for a baby shower and brought me some pheasant eggs.. They were asking me about the chicks in the brooder, the eggs in the bator and apparently I became rather excited as I told them about the Icelandics and JGs I have coming to set on the 30th... Everyone was laughing at me.. My poor wife was trying so hard not to laugh she was crying... I really don't mind because I have all of you that understand where I'm coming from..

I really don't mind because I have all of you that understand where I'm coming from..

 

[dldolan]

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Subtle Kathy!

I haven't had the heart to crush her denial. Everyone has been there once or twice.

Ok, Ok, so I am just trying to believe what Cheryl told me....but here are the three...Amigos?

Sigh.
They are sweet little guys...

 

[kathyinmo]

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Subtle Kathy!

I haven't had the heart to crush her denial. Everyone has been there once or twice.

Ok, Ok, so I am just trying to believe what Cheryl told me....but here are the three...Amigos?

Sigh.
They are sweet little guys...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/65263_tres_amigos.jpg

OF COURSE they are sweet! They came from my sweet hens!

HEY, they look like my babies, too!

Really, they are just beautiful boys! They really are.

 

[dldolan]

Alright, I am accepting reality. What are my options??? Can I post when I have a broody and would someone sell me some hatching eggs? ARGH...I can't believe this, and now I just love them! One of the three is pretty aggressive, however, and I'll probably have to rehome him sooner than later. My son spent the morning helping me to revamp a shed into a chicken hut. Now I am really going to need it!

Sigh. This isn't just chicken math--it's chicken trigonometry or chicken calculus...

Got this pic today of all three of them hanging with my lead hen, Fiona. Already integrated into the flock without much hassle. Double Drat.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Most of my little guys that age get all up in each other's grill a lot. They are just vying for position. I have found that the jousting stops when they finally get it worked out. Most of the cockerels I re-homed were ones that fought their way to the top! If only they knew that ahead of time they might settle down. I let them get a little bigger and wait to see the interaction with the rest of the flock before choosing who stays and who goes. First and foremost they have to get along with Isi and respect him as the leader. If they don't do that and try to mount his hens and cause problems they are at the feed store before they know what hit 'em. Then I watch for manners and gentlemanliness. After the get a little older I see who offers treats to the girls and who grabs the food and runs. If you are a male Icelandic you have to earn you spot here!

Several of us should be able to help with eggs when you get a broody and get you some girls. You'll never know if those boys have manners until then! For what it's worth I gave away 14 cockerels at one time and even with all those roos together things were pretty peaceful.

Mary

 

[The Sheriff]

BTW, Stella got moved into the layer coop and covered yard today after Michael found this stash, plus many more broken green eggs, in the donkey feeder in the second pasture.

Her roamin' days are done, at least for awhile!

 

[Mahonri]

STELLA!!!

 

[Jake Levi]

Those are for sure three very good looking guys, I like them all, maybe a little bias towards the center one, but pity none like Isi, oh well, cant have everything.

Leave them together for sure, they will work it out, if they dont the rowdy one will make a good chicken and dumpling feature. If you have to pull one off the other then its time to have the pot fare.

 

[cherylcohen]

Oh man I'm so sorry they are boys! Those were the only ones that hatched....

I'm going to rooster rescue this week so I can take them there if you like... have Daphne bring them today. Horrible week ahead of interviewing attorneys to sue County Sanitary District...I just HATE this negative activity. Doesn't look like we will be moving or getting back in our home anytime soon, so I think my breeding days are coming to a close. I'm in denial that's why I haven't made any decisions about Sir Giles flock, my buff laced brahma flock or the 12 silver pencilled plymouth rock chicks I'm growing out.

Friends I need a favor... I have a customer/friend that I was intending to hatch some eggs for his son's 5th birthday and have them out to The Omelet Ranch for a mini birthday celebration!. With everything that is going on I couldn't get eggs into the incubator in time. His birthday is on May 16th.

Does anyone have pure bred chicks hatching around that time, a week or two earlier is fine too, that I can purchase for this little boy.

They already have some wyandottes, ameraucana, light sussex from hatches I've done. They are the sweetest nicest family...

I'm looking for these breeds

Wheaten marans
speckled sussex
delawares
RIR
partridge/silver laced plymouth rocks
buff orpington
salmon faverolle
Welsummer
barnevelder
maybe others I haven't named...

 

[Jake Levi]

I just picked up more eggs from Mary at the Post Office, I was worried because the box had a busted corner but the eggs were all wrapped so nice and comfy I dont think that they even knew it, no hairline cracks or anything else. I am concerned as last night was cold, 26 here, been a lot colder but this is April, today would be a balmy spring day, for early March ! I just love global warming, pity it isnt happening !

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So now I have 45 eggs in a 42 egg incubator ! 3 are riding piggy back til next thursday when the first set goes into lockdown.

If even half of these hatch I will be ecstatic, if all hatch I'll be a gibbering idiot !