What’s for sale?
We have two sets of products, those that we can ship, and those for local pick up or delivery only. For anything, you’re welcome to call, or (preferably) email. You can also order the shippable items through our online store, using Paypal.
The products we can ship are Maple Syrup, Dried Mushrooms, Honey, Roving, Wool, Socks and Icelandic Chicken hatching eggs. For pictures, descriptions and prices, please go to the store. We will also ship day olds, but not through the store.
We have medium cream-colored eggs for sale from our Icelandic chickens, $4 a dozen. Our chickens wander around our farm, follow our sheep, eat vegetable scraps and otherwise scrounge for their food, which makes their eggs incredibly healthful and delicious. These can either be picked up on the farm, or I deliver into the Keene area by mutual arrangement. These sell out early, so call or write to get on the list.
We prefer to sell eggs to eat rather than ship them for hatching but will do so for $1 per egg plus Priority mail flat rate. We will run our 24 egg incubator and ship you the the hatch for $4.00 per live chick plus shipping: Warm weather months only, and we require a non-refundable a $25.00 deposit. Alternatively, we now have a much larger incubator and can accept larger orders by arrangement and will negotiate the required non-refundable deposit. (We wrote up a bit on The Care and Feeding of Icelandic Chickens.) Unfortunately we have had bad experiences with USPS Priority Mail, and will now only ship Express Mail, for actual cost.
We sell maple syrup, dried mushrooms, honey, lamb (alive or frozen), pork and pigs, beef, turkey, duck and goose. The pricelist for what we have in stock is Here. Everybody is raised outdoors on species-appropriate actual food, and we’re doing our best to reach “born here, raised by its mama” as well. The turkeys and geese will sell out for the holidays. Email us to get on the list. We breed our own pigs, so they are available (intermittently) throughout the year. We are also very interested in trading for unrelated Tamworth gilts to build up the herd.
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Do Icelandies lay well? Some website said they were very rare because they aren’t productive. I’m looking for a breed that won’t find winter to be a problem, and that will lay enough eggs for a couple of people to eat. They look fantastic.
Thanks,
Sue
Ours lay five medium eggs a week. They forage 80% of their own feed during growing season. They are sufficiently broody to maintain a flock of 30 laying hens in the face of weasels, hawks, and the bear that ripped the coop door off its’ hinges to get a chicken dinner. They dress out at 2 and 1/4 pounds like clockwork, they taste delicious and they’re stewing chickens one and all, as you’d expect from a bird whose mama took it out into a snowstorm at two days old.
They are rare because they’re the barnyard chickens on back country farms in Iceland, which is the size of West Virginia, with the population of Wyoming.
The other thing you need to know is that all Icelandic domestic animals have been raised on open range for 1200 years. They expect to go where they want to, and any fence they find was put up by a human to keep them away from something yummy that the human wants to eat his/her self. That is, it’s a challenge.
Hi
Do you have a waiting list for piglets? What is the price?
We are in love with the Tamworth breed!
We’re happy to take names and contact information from people that want piglets, but our operation is neither big enough or consistent enough to make promises or take deposits.
We’ll be charging $150 for any weaners that we do have to sell this year. We do not castrate and we’ve yet to have a case of boar taint.
You might also contact Hogwash farm up in Thetford, VT. We got a bunch of our breeding stock from there and are quite happy with them.
I am interested in purchasing a dozen hatching eggs at the end of March. I would like to pick up instead of shipping them. I see you go to Keene on Thursdays. Please let me know if we can make arrangements. .
Thank you, Dana
Hi, Spent the day trying to find your website! I want very much to start an Icelandic flock. I have a small flock now of dual purpose hens & an older roo. I am more than willing to drive to you to get hatchlings. We are in Maine (Waltham, just north of Ellsworth, not far from Bar Harbor). Not a prob to get to you. I have raised several batches of chicks & guineas w/ excellent results. This lighter & smaller breed from the duals is more active , which I find appealing (along w/ all their other good qualities). I had an Andalusian hen which I loved for that reason … eagle got her
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If you can help me in anyway, much appreciated!
Would love to send you a deposit… but can’t locate a postal address on your site… I want a full hatch if you can manage it. I will also come & pick up the babies if you let me know when.
Thanks.. there is a guy here in Maine, I recently found out, who has Behl birds too. I am hoping to possibly get some from him, also. Spread the gene pool….
It has been a long time since I have been in that area… I went to F Pierce College about a hunnert years ago
We would like to buy a hatch, we have two icelandic roosters that I dont fully understand where they came from but I think the eggs came from Iceland, were incubated and hatched in California and now live with us in Southwest Kansas. I need to get some pullets so I can develop a flock of purebred Icelandics
Lisa & Frank, we would like to hatch some Icelandic eggs. Can you ship the eggs, even though it’s written here that you guys prefer to hatch? If so, we really will take them when you’re ready. And send you all a check asap. Yes?
Maybe? 
Yes we can. We’ll wrap up 25 eggs in a large USPS flat rate box for $25 for the eggs and $15 for the shipping.
i hope carolee tully sees this, or maybe you can put me in touch with her?! i live 2o min away from you in sullivan maine and i got icelandics from lisa 2 years ago! would be interested in perhaps a rooster swap down the line as well as finding out who the “guy w/ Behl birds” is in the state! i don’t know if my email address will show up but carolee if you see this please email me at nettles at riseup dot net
hoping to connect! katie
Hi –
Do you have a minimum number of chicks that you’ll ship? Or do you ship the whole hatch as a minimum? I would love some chicks, but don’t need 24. Thanks,
Lisa
We need to rethink quantities since we got the big cabinet incubator. We used to insist on shipping whatever hatched because we didn’t want to raise 3 after shipping 15. I think we’ll probably go with the normal 15 minimum that the pros do, but we’re not there yet.
I would like turkeys- White Midget specifically, I’d like chicks but would be willing to try to hatch eggs if that’s all you have available…
My email is cshopp at marykay dot com thank you so much!
Hi,
Do you have any Icelandic pullets for sale? I live in Western Maryland.
Thank you,
Liz
We do, but they would need to be picked up. The regulations for shipping poultry more than a day old have gotten quite expensive. It is only worth it for expensive show birds.
Day olds and hatching eggs can still be shipped for a reasonable price.
Hello. I am interested in starting a flock of Icelandic chickens. Do you have any adult birds for sale? If not, I would be interested in buying either chicks.
Thanks for your time!
MW
Would love to buy either Icelandic eggs for hatching or baby chicks. I bought a hen and rooster this summer but something got my hen. I’m so heart broken for my rooster and me. I have him in a safer place now. Look forward to hear from you. Diana
Your Icelandic Chickens are gorgeous, and awesome. I would love some hatching eggs since I believe the trip for live babies would be a little far for chicks to travel to Pa. My birds are treated with TLC and are free to roam about during daylight hours on our 10 acres, I am retired and spend lots of time doting over my feathered friends. Your birds would be a fantastic addition to my flock. If they are not laying are you able to put me on waiting list? Thank You Very Much,
Cheryl
Cheryl,
Would that it was simple. In the warm months, chicks would do far better than hatching eggs. You might lose one or two, a number that could easily have died anyway, whereas the hatch percentage on mailed eggs is less than half that of eggs handcarried. And of course if you buy chicks, the ones that don’t hatch are my problem not yours.
OTOH, I’m not willing to mail chicks again until next spring, whereas I’ll mail eggs as long as the temperature is above 0F.
I’m trying to buy maple syrup from this website, but whenever I click on “maple syrup” I just get a reference to an April 2011 blog entry. Do you have any syrup for sale that can be shipped to Virginia? If so, could you let me know the details? Thanks.
good morning:
i’m interested in icelandic hatching eggs. do you have any available? if so, how do i get in contact with you to set-up the shipping?
It’s too cold here now for the eggs to be viable, sadly. We’ll start up again in the spring. Send an email to frank@mackhillfarm.com and he’ll put you on the list. We’ll collect a deposit starting probably in March or April, depending on the weather. We’ll also have day olds then as soon as it is warm enough to ship.
If you are on Facebook, there’s a group of us there here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/134998809885184/ Just ask to join and I’ll approve it.
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