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One Dozen Icelandic Chicken Hatching Eggs

Hatching Egg Notice

Shipped hatching eggs are highly sensitive to handling and conditions during transit. Hatch rates can vary and are not guaranteed.

We do not offer refunds or replacements for poor hatch rates. Shipping Protection is required for a one-time replacement.

By ordering, you accept the risks associated with shipped hatching eggs. Please review the full Terms of Service before purchasing.

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The egg doesn't give you many clues.

That's part of the fun.

Put a dozen Icelandic hatching eggs in the incubator and you really don't know what those chicks are going to look like when they grow up. The colors and patterns can go in all kinds of directions, and even siblings can end up looking surprisingly different from one another.

Icelandics have never been particularly concerned with matching.

This listing is for one dozen fertile Icelandic chicken hatching eggs from our breeding flock.

About the Icelandic Chicken

Icelandic chickens, known as Íslenska hænan or Landnámshænan, are an old landrace with roots in Iceland's settlement-era agricultural history. Rather than being developed to conform to a modern breed standard, these chickens were kept as practical farm birds over generations.

That history left behind a population with a whole lot of variation.

Color can vary. Pattern can vary. Comb type can vary. Crests can appear. There isn't one specific Icelandic “look” that every chick you hatch is supposed to grow into.

Which makes staring at freshly hatched chicks and trying to predict the adults mostly an exercise in being confidently wrong.

Breed Characteristics

  • Origin: Iceland
  • Type: Icelandic landrace
  • Hen weight: approximately 3 to 4 pounds
  • Rooster weight: approximately 4 to 5 pounds
  • Egg color: white to cream
  • Egg size: medium
  • Egg production: approximately 130 to 160 eggs per year
  • Temperament: active, alert, curious, and independent
  • Broodiness: moderate to high, with many hens willing to set and raise chicks
  • Foraging: active foragers that appreciate room to explore
  • Climate: historically associated with Iceland's cool climate, but still requires appropriate shelter and normal weather protection
  • Appearance: highly variable in color, pattern, comb type, and other physical traits

Icelandics are also capable flyers compared with many heavier chickens, something worth remembering once those adorable incubator babies turn into chickens with opinions about where fences end.

What You'll Receive

You'll receive one dozen fertile Icelandic chicken hatching eggs from our breeding flock.

The photos in this listing show our actual birds, but they aren't a menu. We cannot guarantee the color, pattern, comb type, crest, or other appearance of the chicks you hatch.

We also cannot guarantee sex or sex ratio. That's up to genetics, and genetics has declined our request to cooperate with order notes.

When available, we may include extra eggs at no additional charge. Extras aren't guaranteed.

A Quick Reality Check About Hatching Eggs

We sell fertile hatching eggs from our breeding flock, but fertility does not guarantee development or hatch.

Shipped eggs go through things we cannot see or control. Carrier handling, vibration, temperature exposure, delays, egg condition, storage, incubation temperature and humidity, turning, incubator performance, and plain old biology can all affect what happens after the eggs leave our farm.

Because of those variables, we cannot guarantee a hatch rate on shipped eggs.

If you've never hatched shipped eggs before, go into it knowing they're different from eggs carried from your own coop to your incubator. Sometimes you get a fantastic hatch. Sometimes you do everything right and the results still suck.

That's hatching eggs.

Hatching Egg Shipping

  • Eggs ship Monday through Wednesday
  • USPS Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express are available
  • USPS hatching egg shipments include the required $15 USPS surcharge
  • UPS shipping is also available and does not include the USPS surcharge
  • Tracking is provided
  • We do not currently ship hatching eggs to Hawaii
  • Off-site local pickup may be available
  • Extra eggs are included when available

If you'd like your package held at the post office for pickup, choose USPS shipping and leave us a note at checkout.

We carefully pack eggs for shipping, but no packing method can control everything that happens once a box enters the carrier system. An egg can arrive looking perfectly intact and still have experienced enough handling during transit to affect development.

Our Icelandic Flock

With Icelandics, we're not trying to narrow the population down until every bird looks like a copy of the one beside it. The differences between birds are part of what makes this landrace worth keeping.

Our breeding decisions look beyond feather color or whichever chicken happens to be particularly pretty that day. We're maintaining a breeding population with attention to healthy reproduction, functional birds, appropriate characteristics, and the diversity already present within the flock.

Our flock participates in the National Poultry Improvement Plan and is A/I Clean under participant #31-1508, Tina Hines.

The chickens shown in our photos are our actual breeding birds. We don't offer public farm visits, but we're happy to share flock photos and updates.

Before You Order

Please read our Hatching Eggs and Chicks Terms of Service Policy before ordering. Purchasing hatching eggs or chicks means you agree to those terms.

NPIP Certified Flock

We participate in the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), meaning our breeding birds are tested and monitored under state and federal disease-control standards. We take biosecurity seriously—because healthy chicks start long before hatch day.