Icelandic Chickens

[RingedTeal]

 

[NotAFarm]

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[mlm Mike]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the compliments. I am just bursting with pride.

A question? Are all Icelandics really just a bit bigger than bantams?! Mine are so tiny. They are smaller than some LF phoenixes I have seen!

Drumstick Diva, I am keeping the first boy and the third boy (I am a sucker for speckles and the green/white tail feathers).

I'm newer to Icelandics, but it seems they are somewhat small, depending on what other LF you have had. They are certainly larger than true bantams. I don't have any experience with LF phoenixes, but mine are larger than the Golden Campines I have had.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'm newer to Icelandics, but it seems they are somewhat small, depending on what other LF you have had. They are certainly larger than true bantams. I don't have any experience with LF phoenixes, but mine are larger than the Golden Campines I have had.

My icelandic's and campines where about the same size.

 

[RingedTeal]

ML, When are you going to break down and get some Icelandics of your own?!

Idk whenever my parents let me

 

[Icelander]

Oh my! Beautiful birds like this make me want to take up Icelandics too! Lol

Good idea! I think there are some folks in Texas that have them

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I'll throw in Blair because sounds a bit like blár in Icelandic, which means blue.

Anna heard Elska was getting too much attention and wanted to put emphasis on the fact that Elska is 3/4s from her and "who do you all think she got those good looks from, any how!!"

Here's the beautiful momma hen of the beautiful pullet (along with the Lav Am chick she hatched for a friend).....




Of course, the blue she got from A.J. (Ari Junior).......one of the last pics I took of him before he moved to Dixon....

Dar, When crating-up cockerels, I had my "Dreki Jr" in my hands.....actually carried him around around a bit because I was so conflicted as to whether or not to let him go. I don't know if anyone, except maybe Jim (mrheinz77), knows how hard it was for me to let Dreki, Kella, et al go......but, my "mission" is not to keep all the best Icelandics, it's to get them into the hands of people I think will safeguard their genetic treasure...so they went to live in Iowa.....ditto for others I have rehomed. I told myself that I still had Audun and Anna, Dreki's parents, and could hatch another one so it was okay for him to go. Now I was walking around trying to decide if I could part with a second gorgeous cockerel..................I decided not at this time, anyway, was I ready....I know.....I'm a big softie.....but don't tell....
Here is a picture of Falki (Falcon)......looking very much like his big brother Dreki..........


Falki .....hatched as part of the Mahonri 3rd Annual Easter Hatchalong.........



Dreki.........

GREAT colors! I love the blue boys! And Anna is a beauty too, that mottled pattern is really lovely.

 

[Icelander]

Yesterday I candled the 9 remaining "fridged" eggs (of 10) that I set in my incubator just over a week ago and discovered that one has quit on me. So I'm down to 8 fridged eggs, who are all doing the chicken dance in the shell, very lively, just like all the 7 fresh eggs.

Hope no more of the fridged eggs quit.

Has anyone on here hatched Icie eggs out of the fridge (or otherwise "old and cold" eggs)?

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Yesterday I candled the 9 remaining "fridged" eggs (of 10) that I set in my incubator just over a week ago and discovered that one has quit on me. So I'm down to 8 fridged eggs, who are all doing the chicken dance in the shell, very lively, just like all the 7 fresh eggs.

Hope no more of the fridged eggs quit.

Has anyone on here hatched Icie eggs out of the fridge (or otherwise "old and cold" eggs)?

I got some barnyard crosses from a woman who was selling them as eating eggs, but she had a couple roos running with the girls. I put some fresh ones and two refrigerated ones in the incubator. One refrigerated egg pipped, but it appeared to pip through the yolk. Didn't make it

Can't wait until tomorrow!

 

[debs_flock]

Has anyone on here hatched Icie eggs out of the fridge (or otherwise "old and cold" eggs)?

I set a dozen Trader Joe fertile eggs for the heck of it. I got 8 chicks hatch out of the dozen, healthy little leghorns. They sold in a heartbeat to someone looking for white egg layers, the matriarch of the family wouldn't eat nasty brown eggs!

Deb

 

[RedIII]

Anna heard Elska was getting too much attention and wanted to put emphasis on the fact that Elska is 3/4s from her and "who do you all think she got those good looks from, any how!!"

Here's the beautiful momma hen of the beautiful pullet (along with the Lav Am chick she hatched for a friend).....

Love the speckled hens. Elska seems to have gotten a lot of her mother's good looks!

Ravie, this is my first experience with Icelandics, but I noticed when they were teeny babies that they were smaller than LF chicks. They also seem to be built quite delicately, in the sense that they have a lovely build and shape, even as chicks. Well, in my opinion

Icelander, I have two Wyandottes that came from a batch of eggs where some were refridgerated, I believe. What's more, partway through the incubation process, the incubator got unplugged for a while and all of the eggs were cold. Long story short, they got plugged back in, and out popped a bunch of beautiful little chicks!

All of these lovely Icelandic chickens and their names........I need to find a name more befitting of my little Icee pullet. For now, she's going by Sheila (SHE-ila, in hopes she was a girl) but I want something a little more native-sounding. My boys have Swedish and German names, haha. I didn't know any Icelandic boy names for them when I got them.