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7/18/12 at 4:17am

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post #16552 of 18441
7/18/12 at 6:26am

Thanks for the nice comments on my birds! I just love them. This flock with the Icelandics, Iowa Blues and Gold/Silver laced Cochins is just the most interesting and colorful group! Kaz is really good with them. He gets bouncy and playful like any 3 month old puppy, but has shown no aggressive behavior. In that photo of him and the birds I had him lay down and "stay" in the middle of the flock and they just pecked the scratch around him.

 

Has anyone ever had a bird with a broken foot? I have a crested white pullet that I think got stepped on by a horse sad.png I have her splinted but I don't have much hope for her. I think her leg its broken right at the joint. I also came home from work the other day and found a cockerel hanging by one leg in a chain link fence. He is getting better at least. In both cases, it was Kaz athat helped me find them. He is in a kennel in the barn during the day and must have known it had happened. Took me right to them when I let him out. I think he's going to be a good protector.

Dark Horse Acres

NPIP 42-618

Iowa Blues and a mixed flock of a wide variety.

http://www.iowabluechickenclub.com/

 

 

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Dark Horse Acres

NPIP 42-618

Iowa Blues and a mixed flock of a wide variety.

http://www.iowabluechickenclub.com/

 

 

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7/18/12 at 10:11am
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Stella and I were breaking bread together in the sunroom yesterday. She has decided to start her own Social Club in the Random Ramblings Section of BYC. She hopes all her friends will come on over and join the fun. You can find it  HERE. I promised to be there every morning with a cup of coffee and a smile. 

 

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Visit my Blog!        Everyday Miracles & Mayhem at the Buck 'n Run Ranch    Have fun at Stella's Social Club here on BYC!

 

Sheriff of The Buck 'n Run Ranch, breeding Icelandic, Cream Legbar, &  Isbar chickens, fainting goats, emus, & donkeys on five acres in northern California.  Visit my website and check it all out! 

 

 

 

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post #16554 of 18441
7/18/12 at 10:35am

NotAFarm, great birds with perfect Icelandic names!  I always love when the name of something describes it perfectly.


Anyway,I realized I hadn't posted photos of my flock for a while so below are June photos of my little backyard Hlésey-line.  We're down to one rooster, the silver duck-wing Prímus, as our big black beauty Glámur has been contracted out to provide security for a flock of 20+ free-ranging hens at a friend's farm until we want to breed him.  When he got out of his traveling box he probably thought he'd died and gone to heaven, he was out in a field with scores of ladies running up to him and crouching down left and right.  Of course he immediately started boss-hogging them around like he'd never done anything else in his life.  Born to rule that boy is, which is why we had to say bye-for-now.

 
Anyway, here are the ladies, 6 months old and Prímus, 7 months.
 
Skráma:
June 2012 1.jpg
 
Sirrí:
June 2012 2.jpg
 
Kara:
June 2012 3.jpg
 
and Prímus:
 
June 2012 4.jpg
 
I've started shipping eggs collected from them.  Did the first test shipment about a month ago and out of 7 eggs that were set, 4 adorable chicks hatched.  One died in the shell and two eggs didn't develop.  The eggs were shipped over 2000 miles and it was the receiver's first attempt at incubating so I think they eggs did alright all things considered.  One of the chicks is developing grey feathers :)

 
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post #16555 of 18441
7/18/12 at 10:44am

I love Looking at all the Beautiful Chickens..droolin.gif Thanks for posting...

Splash Wyandottes, Cream Legbars, Norwegian Jaerhon's, Bresse, Marans, Swedish Flower Hens, Icelandics, Isbars, Cream Brabanters, Jubilee Orpington's, Easter Eggers and the list Keeps going... Wonder whats next!! LOL

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Splash Wyandottes, Cream Legbars, Norwegian Jaerhon's, Bresse, Marans, Swedish Flower Hens, Icelandics, Isbars, Cream Brabanters, Jubilee Orpington's, Easter Eggers and the list Keeps going... Wonder whats next!! LOL

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7/18/12 at 8:04pm

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post #16557 of 18441
7/18/12 at 9:09pm

Karimw, well Kaz is a really good pup, would I be correct in assuming he is from working lines?

 

NotAFarm - Nice photos, as always, what is the broody box Asta is in made of? She also blends so well with the hay. In you second set of pictures I would keep the one you are thinking of keeping, the other one is nice too.

 

Icelander, you should post more pictures of your flock, they are lovely. I really like Primus.

Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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post #16558 of 18441
7/18/12 at 9:19pm
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Nice to meet you UrbanEnthusiast, I see you're in my neck of the woods :)

There is not a whole lot of sourced information in English (I've started working on some translations, but it will take me a while), but you can get the basic facts by visiting this page http://aviandiv.tzv.fal.de/aviandiv/perl/query_db.pl (select "Icelandic landrace") which contains information collected by the United Nations' FAO in 1998-2000 for a diversity project called AvianDiv.  There are a few errors, like the breed is 1100 years old, not 900 years old (someone subtracted 900 from 2000 and got 900...) and they do not lay brown eggs, but white/cream/extremely light beige.  It's a good starting point though.  It states that they lay 180 eggs per year (when they're in Iceland, 65 degrees North), which I assume is without supplementing with artificial lighting over the winter months.

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The translation you are working on, how will you make it available? I realize it will take some time. Thanks for doing it.

Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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post #16559 of 18441
7/18/12 at 11:37pm

Mlmddh, thank you, I'm a very proud mama, especially of Prímus, who I hatched myself in my first (otherwise miserably unsuccessful) attempt at incubation.  Seeing this little spunky firecracker pop out of his shell and start demanding attention like a BOSS thankfully more than made up for losing the other 6 (which was due to power outage plus poor humidity management on my part).

 

I'll try and post more pictures this weekend, we just got a new camera I need to try out smile.png

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post #16560 of 18441
7/18/12 at 11:41pm

Oops got so into talking about Prímus I forgot all about the translations...! I'll start by asking author's permissions to translate and share their material or, if that is too much work or if I don't get permission, I'll try to at least put together some referenced articles.  I don't know yet where I'll share them, but I'll make sure to post links here :)

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