Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

I am freezing cold here. It is now 30° and the high is to be 37°. We might even get snow tonight. I hope not. We should get out of the freeze on Tuesday or Wednesday. I hate hauling water when the hose is frozen. I am thankful for my helpers.

Hope your cracked egg chick makes it, Mary.

 

[Farmerboy16]

I am freezing cold here. It is now 30° and the high is to be 37°. We might even get snow tonight. I hope not. We should get out of the freeze on Tuesday or Wednesday. I hate hauling water when the hose is frozen. I am thankful for my helpers.

Hope your cracked egg chick makes it, Mary.

30°? Kathy? That is warm to us northerners, it was 3° last night, now that is cold, and those chicks that I hatched on NYH did just fine in my unheated coop, with just 1 weak heat lamp. Tough buggers. Mary- I hope that chick survives. I dislike how they make the lids too.

 

[NotAFarm]

Man I am having a bummer of a day. I dropped the lid of the Brinsea on an egg and smashed it. I don't know why tabletop incubator manufacturers don't make it easier to remove the lid! I have to shove a fingernail into the Styrofoam of the Hovabator to lift that one. The Brinsea top is too wide for arthritic fingers to grasp. So now I am trying to save a baby in a smashed shell with a bleeding membrane. It probably wasn't ready to pip until tomorrow and now it is half out.

Mary, I hope the chick makes it! Is it an Isbar or an Icelandic?

 

[The Sheriff]

It is an Icelandic and I don't think it has any chance of survival. I had to remove more shell to find where it was bleeding and stop that and there is now a huge yolk sac protruding. I have moved it to another incubator and will just leave it alone at this point and let nature take it's course. I feel so bad.

 

[NotAFarm]

It's not your fault Mary. I remember you and others mentioning before about the lids and the lack of a proper handle for lifting. Que sera, sera....don't beat yourself up about it.

 

[Totalcolour]

I'm sorry Mary. Sometimes I look at an egg and think, it's JUST an egg. But then when something like that happens, it's not just an egg anymore, is it?

 

[NotAFarm]

It's up to 36 degrees !! Woo Hoo!! The forecasted high was 28 early this morning and then 32 around lunchtime. I wish I got paid to get things wrong as often as the weather forecasters a weather.com!!

I went out and got some pictures today....
Some of the Icelandics are NOT happy with me for rearranging their coops. One unhappy pullet is Bara, the lone pullet I hatched from The Sheriff's egg shipment last May. She is the one on outside of the chainlink pacing to get with Dreki and Kella. She always hung with him....but he is Audun's son and I'm thinking she is Isi's daughter so I'm pairing her with Bjarthur, Ari/Asta's son....I hope she gets over it.........



Right now, Bjarthur is in a coop by himself, but will be joined by some girls as soon as I finish the hoop house renovations for them. I let him into the main coop at night but catch him and separate him so that he doesn't bother Elska while she is acclimating to the main coop. Here is Elska checking things out. Bjarthur is in the coop she is next too and that's Dimma preening, right in front of his door. What a hussy!!

 

[kathyinmo]

Oh, Elska....

 

[NotAFarm]

Kathy, I told my husband that if anything ever happens to me, he is to mail Elska to you...I even showed him where I have your address and phone number!!!

 

[Farmerboy16]

x2!