Icelandic Chickens

[Hangtown Farms]

pretty

 

[Miss Molly]

These are two of this year's hatch. They broke out of the grow out pen and spent the night with all the predators. Finally I took a cage and propped it up with a stick with a string tied on the end. I put some feed under the cage and had to hide around a corner. My brother in law laughed and said he tried it when he was a kid and never caught anything. Well, I caught these two. They are from Bjarthur's pen. The hens in there are Drottning and Doppa (RIP dear Doppa)

Help with the gender on the white one, please. I thought pullet but now I'm thinking cockerel.

How old? I'm thinking Hen

 

[Jake Levi]

I think its a pullet but Happy Chooks is the one with the eyes for this,

she and the Marys and Kathys are missed.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[lmatvey]

Those are great birds! Do you know of any icelandic chicken breed clubs? I found one at www.ips.wbsitetoolbox.com, but would like to know of others.

 

[Barrdwing]

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 know that this subject is old news, but I was catching up on the thread and had to comment. Three times now this summer I had Icelandic eggs that got laid in a box that a broody was using to put her babies to bed. Nobody used the box during the day (except of course for the laying hens). When the hen finally took the kids to roost on the perch, I'd find the eggs (hen in question is a ferocious little critter; if you reach into her box when she has eggs or chicks, she grabs a hunk of skin and tries to unscrew it). So those eggs had gotten no better than indifferent incubation, big temperature fluctuations, being kicked around by hens arguing over who got the box, all that good stuff. I candled them for kicks, found them in various stages of development, put them under a broody hen, and got chicks. Feisty, fat, happy chicks. It absolutely floors me how tough these Icelandics are! If it had happened just once, I'd call it a fluke, but three times now tells me that they are just about iron-clad when it comes to surviving rough conditions, even before they hatch. Amazing breed.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I think its a pullet but Happy Chooks is the one with the eyes for this,

she and the Marys and Kathys are missed.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

I already commented on them - yes, I think they are pullets. Knowing their age would confirm it.


Glad to be missed though.

 

[mrheinz77]

I already commented on them - yes, I think they are pullets.  Knowing their age would confirm it.


Glad to be missed though.

Sorry I didn't get back sooner. They are 3-4 months old.

 

[Mahonri]

Lost one of my favorite black Icelandic hens today,She had a beautiful crest on her that I just adored. She laid a big beautiful, long white egg yesterday and today I walk into the coop and she's dead. Felt normal weight, looked perfect, just dead. I shed a tear.

I'm now down to 9 pullets and Drekki Jr. I hope I get to hatch at least a few this winter from them.

 

[karimw]

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So Sorry Lost one of mine to a racoon last night. DH did chores and I forgot to tell him about the hen that sometimes perches outside the coop instead of going in with the others.Ah well, the stupid ones shouldn't pass on their genes anyway.

 

[mlm Mike]

Sorry for both of your loses.