Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

 

[Mahonri]

Just got caught up. Gave an icelandic pullet to one of my patients on Sunday... along with 4 EEs and one OE.
Her daughter was estatic. She really wanted to get one of the pretty SFHs... I said, SORRY not for SALE!

 

[RingedTeal]

Pics.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Mary, congrats on the pigs!

Other Mary, these Icelandics are not staying. Another BYC member is going to pick them up this weekend. But I will be putting more eggs in the incubator for Daron. Gatta make sure he gets plenty of pullets!


Today's pic, 9 Icelandics hatched, a few more pipped and a Delaware pipped...

 

[kathyinmo]

They look great, Laura! Congratulations! You did it ! ! !

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats on the babies!!!

 

[Jake Levi]

Hi All

I'm back in MI, and am typing this with both hands ! Progress however so slight and steady makes all of the difference. I am here at my sons til breakup, but weighing things.

I lost Blau on the trip in western ND, he was by himself in a dog crate but he didnt have enough body mass or feathering I think, he froze. It was -27 then.

The good news is that all others made it, and most of the hens laid anyhow.

The colored rooster of the 3 feather legged ones is getting beautiful, and enjoys being petted.

I have two roosters available for rehoming, Isi Isison, big beautiful white with gold cape and brilliant red-brown on the wings and body. A real flock meister who looks out for his hens. Also the white feather legged rooster, he and Isi have Single Combs and I worry about them , its good to be back, staying at my sons while I sort out what will be.

Enjoy all,

Happy buck bucks to all .

Life is good and better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[RingedTeal]

 

[The Sheriff]

Hey all, Happy Valentine's Day.

I have been busy today turning my former incubator/brooder area into a broody pen. I stopped incubating or brooding chicks down at the Icelandic coop due to the dust and the distance from the house. That will all be done in my new screen room. I had been housing broodies and babies in one of the other coops/yards but that necessitates not using the Icelandic eggs for hatching for a month after moving the broody back home. I don't like that.

Soooooo.......I had that area on my side yard where I grew out the Isbars and Cream legbars. Michael really wanted it back for his lawn mower. Early this morning I took my drill and tore it all down, loaded it on the back of the Polaris, drove it to the Icelandic coop and resurrected it as a broody condo.


Here is the view from inside the coop. It is the area to the left of the front door in this view. I am going to cut a little hole in the hardware cloth and make a pop-door for them to access the big coop and outside when they get bigger. (Please excuse the dust. We have chickens)


No sooner was it finished than it welcomed it first occupants, a pretty Icelandic and her two Icelandic chicks that hatched yesterday. She is a first time Mom who only sat for a week. I gave her two stranglers that didn't hatch with the rest of mine in the incubator. They were pipped when she got them. I checked her last night and she had sat on the eggs so tight that they were smashed flat with live babies squirming to get out. I peeled them hard boiled eggs, put them back under her, certain they would die. As you can see she is doing just fine!



This was a zero cost project as everything was reused from the grow out area. I still have a nice broody coop in there that I will put in the Icelandic coop in case we have a plague of broodies. Heaven help us, NO!

 

[RingedTeal]

Plague of broodies