Icelandic Chickens

[Hillbilly Hen]

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It's all self serving, really. I am a hatchaholic.

Admitting you have a problem is usually the first step to recovery........unless you're here........telling all of us you're gonna give us more chickens.....then it's just us helping you hatch, and hatch, and hatch.............

ditto!!

 

[Jake Levi]

Well, it could well be that I will be building Kathys 10 hr sheds in batterys next year, a couple for the Icelandics, one for the IBs and maybe one for the Dellies.

It will be interesting to see how they do where the snow is measured in feet, not inches.

Definitely a proving ground for homestead type chickens !!

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !

 

[Jake Levi]

I woke up during the night thinking on this of all things, the difference between trying to preserve an almost extinct breed, or to parallel to a declining breed and recreate it from the foundation stock. Quite a lot to think about.

Those very few folks with remnant Iowa Blues(mostly from Sand Hill stock) are trying to get this years hatch grown out and some numbers to breed on with next year, while the Delaware folks are going different paths, besides the preservation of existing stock. Both breeds need to build numbers where the Delaware has some advantage there.

I find it very fascinating. Both breeds have active threads here, I was reading both, and read Kathys input on the Delaware thread. I think both breeds are very worth saving, and excellent homestead breeds. Plus beautiful ! If all works out well in Washington I would like to add both next year. Completely separated. 12-20 hens of each and 2-4 roos for each. Raise out all the roos and cull very carefully.

But , now and later the Icelandics have first place ! Their genes are just too precious to allow them to fade away into mixed mutt flocks.

Thoughts on a pretty fall morn over coffee.

Have a great day ya'll !!

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !

 

[Happy Chooks]

Jake............that's why I chose to breed barnevelders. They are incredibly rare in the US and their egg color needs work. I think the birds are stunning and I am so looking forward to working on them. (If they would start laying - 25 weeks and nothing!)

 

[LarryPQ]

I'd be happy if ANYONE was laying. 67+ birds, and three days last week, I got 1 chicken egg. My only adult turkey lays everyday, without fail.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Maybe they are on strike until they get central air!

 

[kathyinmo]

I have so many eggs I don't know what to do with them all! I ran out of egg cartons too!

 

[LarryPQ]

The weather channel had a recorded record of 117, whihch means it was ~3 degrees hotter at my house. My freezers are more chicken-cube buckets than they are food.

It has cooled down a little, but not enough. The Icelandics seem to be doing really well with the heat, better than my bigger birds.

 

[LarryPQ]

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[kathyinmo]

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Honestly, I totally sympathize. That is just HORRIBLE living conditions! I would just die in that heat!