Hi Mary! I was browsing and came apon this, I agree whole heartedly! I built a new coop last year and had several breeding pens, but I decided this year that was exactly the wrong thing to do with these birds! I now have them all together with two roos that get along splendidly! I will let...
I must just be crazy, I have icelandics in the house that are going to have to go to the barn in a couple of days because I have more due to hatch, and now some more eggs waiting to be put in the bator after the second group hatch! I also have a hen setting in the coop! I am obsessed and...
This is a dumb question, but there are no icelandic "shows" are there? And they are not accepted by the APA as far as know right? I am not interested in showing personally, but someone was asking me about them and I wanted to make sure I gave the right answer! Thanks!
Pictures of my boys....art work! I also have one more that was a runt, and so pretty I couldn't bear to part with him..no pictures yet, but he tuned our just as big and healthy as the rest of them!!!
I find the biggest problem with Icelandics is that the roos are all so BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE, I don't want to part with any of them.....and to eat them seems like eating the Mona Lisa!!!! I Can't keep them all!!!!!!! Mine are also free spirits, at the door the minute I get there, trying to...
Hi mary! Glad to be back and able to concentrate on my chicks again! They have wintered fabulously, these tough little birds! You must have a new grand baby by now? Congrats, pictures to come of my flock! What do you have cooking?
So excited I just set eggs from mary(not a farm)s line that originated from Sigrid thordorson and behl lines with my sand hills that came from lyle behls line! I have three breeding pens and they are all so gorgeous I can't wait to see what I get!
Wow, looks like everyone has been as busy as I have this late summer , early fall. I now have some pictures of my Icelandics, I have three roos with 4 to 7 hens each. They are a combination of Mary (not a farms) and Sand Hill preservation center. They are all beautiful and healthy, but very...
Beautiful chicks crystaldegallina!
Here are some pictures of the chicks I hatched from mary (not a farm) In the first picture, I would like to know what color to call the pullet in the back. I have a white one and two blues to compare it to. Its a very light gray almost white.
Here are a...