Icelandic Chickens

[The Sheriff]

Kathy your broody and her babies are so wonderful. Make sure you keep them away from the emus! She looks like a really good Mama. I love that they are running. Where the heck are they always going?

 

[NotAFarm]

It is encouraging to have so many like minded Icelandic fans. I locked down 29 Icelandic eggs today. They are for an order I have to fill on Monday for a dozen chicks. Yikes I hope she is ok with "packing peanuts."

I am not sure when Lukka's babies are due to hatch. She has seven eggs under her and it is most definitely a staggered hatch. I will try to candle them and see if any of them look to be at the same stage of development. Any others I can take out and put in the incubator.

I also have a broody Ameraucana, Raven, who is sitting on four wooden eggs. I will swap those out tonight with three Isbar eggs from my incubator that are due to hatch in 11 days. Luckily she resides in the Isbar coop so the babies will hatch where they will live.

Tomorrow the give-away for the cute broody nest ends on my website. I'll be glad to get it out of here before anybody else decides to go broody! Sorry Kelly. I know you want a broody but you just have broody wannabes currently!

Broodies!

That your incubator eggs, Lukka eggs and Raven eggs all hatch!!
Love my broodies! The best "Chicken TV" show is a momma with her chicks in the yard!
That egg nest is very cute and seems to have gotten alot of attention. Good job!!

Here is a picture of what came for me in the mail yesterday. I'll have to get the good camera out, when they are allowed outside to play. My wife really likes them and gave our laying flock and rooster to a neighbor to make chicken stock.

Very nice looking flock!! I'll be looking forward to your pictures!

 

[Jake Levi]

Times 2 !

Love those spots !

Where did they come from ?

 

[mlm Mike]

Thanks. They came from Hodges Farm. Before I bought them I asked what line they were and she told me, The Sheriff on BYC.

Times 2 !

Love those spots !

Where did they come from ?

 

[NotAFarm]

Pictures!!

The group of "juvies"....they hang out in this "over the fence horse/other animal feeder" that I put in the coop thinking the hens might use it for a nest.....the juvidees have decided that it's the cool place for them to loiter...



Here is what the boy, that I was hoping was a girl, looks like now........hoping he's a mottled silver......!!




One of the broody mommas, Dulla, with 6 of her seven chicks (one more yellow is behind her)...



Her chicks in a bucket while transporting them outside...........

 

[Farmerboy16]

Really colorful bunch that you all have there.

I agree with you Mary! Icelandics must be kept pure!

I lost one chick, but the other four are doing well. I will take pictures of them if my sister did not take the camera back to my dad's store. Will run and check and see if she did.

 

[The Sheriff]

Michael and I went out to get some dinner. In passing through the sunroom I heard cheeping. I have Icelandics due to hatch late Sunday for shipping on Monday.

 

[The Sheriff]

Mary that reminds me of stuffing kids in a Volkswagen bug!

 

[kathyinmo]

x

 

[The Sheriff]

It came in handy as a friend for my lone Cream Legbar baby from the Easter hatch! The big one already trained the newbie to stand in the food dish.