Icelandic Chickens

[VA Susan]

Wow what a beautiful BIG egg! The last long egg looks like a double yolker. The only double yolkers we've ever gotten have been from pullet eggs. Most of our pullet eggs are small though.

 

[drumstick diva]

Janelle - what an egg!! OUC H - poor hen probably needs preparation H now.

 

[janelle18]

Wow what a beautiful BIG egg! The last long egg looks like a double yolker. The only double yolkers we've ever gotten have been from pullet eggs. Most of our pullet eggs are small though.

the first picture with the large egg was a double yoker, as for this skinny one we will have to wait and see!

 

[Rezia]

Goodness Janelle! That looks more like a piece of sidewalk chalk than an egg! (Try telling the kids. I showed the picture to them and they said it was an egg.

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[RedIII]

My freaking laying icelandics strike again...

Wow! That last one looks like quite the feat! I'll bet her bum hurts.

Had a hawk checking out my flock this morning. Dang thing was circling twenty feet above the birds and making my cockerels scream. I ended up chasing the thing off and putting everyone back in their pens. I don't want to lose any more of my flock this year, especially not the Icelandics. I'd like to start breeding them and it's been hard enough to get them.

 

[janelle18]

Hehe yes, they are weird... I got a nice normal egg today so that was good. They cannot figure out the nesting boxes either, always laying on the ground.

I am going to try and hatch out some icelandics in december (NYE hatch-a-long) so by next spring i will have a couple more hens

 

[Farmerboy16]

Cooper- Sorry about that nice roo.


I will be culling 1 of my 2 Icelandic roos due to a defect. He will make a nice chicken pot pie for my birthday dinner on Friday. I know that he will not have much meat, but I had butchered some CX last summer that will go in the pot pie too. It will be my first time to try a non- CX chicken. I am sure that the Icelandic roo will be tasty for he has been free ranging with my flock the past few months.

We eat our Campines all the time.  They make about a 2-3 pound bird dressed, perfect for the two of us.

Deb

I don't see how a 2-3 pound bird can feed a family of 9, not counting my two married brothers. :/





Really I have 8 siblings.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I don't see how a 2-3 pound bird can feed a family of 9, not counting my two married brothers.

Really I have 8 siblings.

You ever heard the phrase................."You eat first with your eyes".......................tell them to fill up on that first course YOU eat all the chicken............

Deb

 

[Twister-n-Dos]

I have rigged up a little arctic entry for the chickens and have been leaving the pop door open.
Seems to be working well with the temps we have had so far, lows around -20F. When it gets
down to -40 will probably need to close the door. With a balmy +5F a couple of them wanted
to scratch around outside today.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Cooper- Sorry about that nice roo.



I will be culling 1 of my 2 Icelandic roos due to a defect. He will make a nice chicken pot pie for my birthday dinner on Friday. I know that he will not have much meat, but I had butchered some CX last summer that will go in the pot pie too. It will be my first time to try a non- CX chicken. I am sure that the Icelandic roo will be tasty for he has been free ranging with my flock the past few months.

We eat our Campines all the time.  They make about a 2-3 pound bird dressed, perfect for the two of us.


Deb

I don't see how a 2-3 pound bird can feed a family of 9, not counting my two married brothers. :/






Really I have 8 siblings.

You ever heard the phrase................."You eat first with your eyes".......................tell them to fill up on that first course YOU eat all the chicken............

Deb