Icelandic Hatch #2 PIC! Update

[looptloop]

They are soooooo cute! Love the blonde one too! That is an amazing amount of Icelandic's right there in your flock!! Do you think it best for preservation that they be kept separate from other chickens? I could totally see getting on board with the preservation effort, I just would need to know how to best keep them.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Sigrid says her flock has lots of silvery blue! Like Lukka's tail feathers.

Love it!

The last one just hatched! It's a blonde too but darker than the blondie that hatched last night. So all four are out and looking great.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I have 2 in the brooder, three hatched and waiting to get out of the incubator, one zipping, 12 in the incubator upstairs in various stages, and four adult chickens in the yard. Oh, and 3 eggs waiting for an incubator slot to open.
Lets do the math:

2
3
1
12
4
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22 and 3 on deck!

I am going to need an intervention! Or some preservation-minded folks to help out!

Ha! You have more chickens than me. (cuz that count doesn't include your Non-icelandics)

I have 25 now.

Amazing how fast it increases when you hatch 10 babies!

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Congrats on the babies! I hope you get a bunch of hatchings

These are such an interesting breed.

 

[The Sheriff]

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I have my laying flock but I do not, and will not have any roosters except the Icelandic's. I will not hatch any eggs that aren't pure Icelandic even though my guys are "dating" the girls in the laying flock. My Icelandics are my only white egg layers so I just collect and incubate the white eggs to get pure Icelandics. I am hoping for Icelandic eggs from another source soon and when Sigrid brings her eggs back, incubates them, and they start laying I hope to introduce some of them as well. The realization I am coming to is that I need to scale back my laying flock. I went a little crazy collecting one of everything I like thinking the Icelandic deal would never happen. Now that it has, where does one put all these birds when you live on a half acre? You've been here. You know what I am saying!

Mary

 

[Brindlebtch]

This is SO cool!

 

[muddstopper]

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Simple, send them to me.

If you cant send the live birds, I am seriously interested in a few of those Icelandic eggs.

 

[Wifezilla]

Love reading about your project. I bet people in Alaska would be really interested in buying some of those new babies!

 

[Happy Chooks]

If you scale back on your laying flock, you won't have any eggs to EAT.

 

[Happy Chooks]

See, I'm killing your thread again.....

So, how is it going with all those babies? And when do your next set hatch?