Last fall, I was given a starter flock of Icelandic chickens, 3 hens and a rooster. They over wintered in our unheated chicken house beautifully, despite the worst winter here in Illinois that I have seen since I was a kid.
They are a smaller breed of chicken than what I have kept in the past (brahmas and orpingtons), and they lay small to medium sized eggs. They also make excellent mothers, setting eggs, hatching, and rearing chicks.
Two of our hens went broody and hatched out chicks. They are good mothers. Our rooster is good with the chicks too.
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- Our Icelandic rooster
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- Icelandic hen covering her chicks
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- Icelandic hen protecting her chicks
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- Speckled Icelandic hen
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- Icelandic hens with chicks
Myrth' s Garden Homestead 