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Kathy, if it were me deciding, these are the breeds I would keep:

English Orps
Coronation Sussex
Silver Laced Wyandottes
Wheaten Ameraucanas
Black/Blue Copper Marans, with a few EEs and OEs in the pen.

Of course if I were really having to decide who to let go I'm sure it would be MUCH harder of a choice.
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Good day all !

I am here and will be more regular, much to do the next 3-4 days of one time things, but it will be.

I had a Lucy once .

Kathy it seems you know what you have to do, it will be hard but rehoming the others will be for the best.
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The Icelandics are first and formost, but when I am permenently located two other breeds I want.

One is the Iowa Blue and considering a couple others to choose from, both will also be preservation projects.

So, later, good to be here, winter is coming and much to do.

Life is good and better with Icelandic Chickens and pack goats !
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Welcome Home Jake, in more ways than one! Get moving so you can just enjoy the winter in front of a warm fire!

Kathy.
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How in the world are you going to chose? I am glad you are keeping the Icelandics if not for preservation, for the comedic value. No day is complete without someone's Icelandic getting out. Do tell us when you get the plan in place.

I have a little reorganization of my own going on. I need to move my Isbars into a coop and pen of their own. I am going to be dividing my layer yard in half, keeping 12 layers on one side and the Isbars on the other. It will mean building a fence to separate the two yards. Originally the plan was to divide the existing coop in half by building a chicken wire wall down the center. One group would exit into their yard on one side, the Isbars into their yard on the other side. It was going to require some type of tunnel to be built for the Isbars to get to their yard since the coop is in the far right corner of the yard. Then one day last week Michael built this. It is a pump house to cover our irrigation equipment which froze last winter forcing a big repair.

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Sooooooo, I asked Michael if he could build another bigger and taller one like that to house my Isbars. He said yes! So it will be 8x8, tall enough to walk into with a slanted roof, sloping to the back. It will be built right into the corner and secured to the fence posts which are buried in two feet of cement. It will just have venting and a people door. The windows will be wire covered openings with hinged flaps to close if needed. I am really excited about it.
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Mine is not going anywhere Kathy! The fence corners are going to be the framework for the coop walls. All but the front right corner will be attached to the fence posts. We will start by building the floor. Everything has to be constructed inside the chicken yard! Otherwise we would have to tear down the fence I paid $1600.00 to have built. That doesn't make sense. Those poles are ten feet tall buried two feet into cement. We could never put it back right. So we are building the coop right where it will stand in this corner. It doesn't look like it in the picture, but it is a perfect 8x8 square from the corner post to the one on the right and from the corner post to the one at the end of the tarp.

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This will give us the opportunity to shore up the netting too. I may replace it with black netting for aesthetics.
 
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PERFECT, Mary! I have one that looks almost like that. I love that coop. Mine is on skids, so I can move it, but I haven't.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_riggs_coop_010.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_riggs_coop_002.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_riggs_coop_001.jpg

That is exactly the kind of coop I have wanted to build for my Icelandics !
I too have the "too many breeds " disease, and already have let go of alot of my Ameraucanas.
I put a few of the nicer girls in with the other breeds, to hatch OEs of various shades...and the roosters are ready for freezer camp.
A few have sold.
I can take that off my sig.
I cannot believe how awesome it feels to walk into an empty coop...nice & clean and empty.
Feed here, for Purina Flock Raiser for example, was $12 a 50# sack in February of this year.
It has crept up in price every month to now, in October, it is $19.99 a 50# sack.
The same price hike went on for Layena.
I raised my egg prices 50 cents to $3.50...........and still have droves of customers...but feeding so many birds over winter is just insane.
Like you said, it isn't much fun anymore.
 
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Sold 50 chickens today. Just miscellaneous birds and all the Silkies.

HOWEVER......... several of those darn Icelandic juveniles escaped again today! They are in a covered pen. The door and gate were closed. I have no idea where their escape route is. I will be watching closely tomorrow.............. after I round them all up again tonight.
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I have no idea how they did that! The little devils are like magicians! I was working on one of the other coops.... well, I was enlarging the run by adding more fencing, and I turned around........ there were 6 of them just staring at me! How the heck???????? I am not even gonna attempt to round them up until it is roost time.
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