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    Icelandic Chickens

    Oh, haha. He's courting me. That's hilarious! I've been told I have chicken legs so maybe.... ;)
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    Icelandic Chickens

    I do have one who has occasionally done a little bit of a side-step toward me. It certainly looks like he's considering attacking my ankle but he's always backed off. I'm guessing he's probably gonna have to go see the freezer. Too bad, he's a big, pretty boy. Can I just say that I really...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Re: flock dynamics and thinning the boys. Do I *want* to keep the roosters who are instigating the majority of the fighting? It's only recently that they've started to battle among themselves and there is a definite divide of instigators and the ones who run away. Is this a desirable sign of...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Those really are beautiful roosters. :) Temperament brings up another thing I'm not real sure of. As in, I don't know what the appropriate temperament should be. Because they do free range and because I have so many (23 total) going in all different directions - it's been hard to really watch...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Well, phooey. Thanks, guys. :) Maybe this other question got lost up there but at what age did you select and then butcher extra roosters?
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Are any of your Icie roos without combs? The internet tells me that all roosters have combs, but Lisa says some of our guys that I hoped were pullets (based on not having a comb) are roosters because they have the rooster tails. It's only distressing in that now I have to put more chickens in...
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    My free-rangers don't "range".

    I've mentioned goats and pigs and cows to my husband (and by mention I mean 'planted the seed', lol), he's slow to come around to this livestock business. It took me 4 years to convince him chickens would be awesome. Now he's smitten. Yay for progress. My only hesitation with a goat is the...
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    My free-rangers don't "range".

    Oh, I didn't know that about the high grass. I bet that has a whole lot to do with it as it's pretty high out there. Thanks!
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    My free-rangers don't "range".

    We live on a corner lot on 6 1/2 acres of wooded, wild, overgrown land. Our land is a rectangle with our house and driveway in the front corner. We have 23 chickens in a garden shed that we transformed into a coop. It's too close to the house in my opinion, considering the amount of land behind...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    How are you telling the cockerels from the pullets? Would I be able to tell at 3 weeks old or is that too early?
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    Grain Mites in feed

    Yeah, that's what someone else said, too. That chickens eat bugs anyway so not to worry too much about it. I'm new to this, does it show? :D
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    Grain Mites in feed

    I got mine from TSC, too. I went back there yesterday to see if I'd just gotten a bad bag only to find the whole stack of chick starter feed *covered* with piles of mites, even on the floor around the bags. I asked one of the workers and she said it was normal. Wellll.. maybe it is, maybe it...
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    Mites in the chicken feed

    I assume you are talking about the food grade diatomaceous earth?
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    Grain Mites in feed

    So I just discovered that the bag of feed that I (stupidly?) keep in the chicken coop is infested--badly--with mites. I can toss out the feed and get new, that's not an issue. My question is what do I need to do about the coop? Do I need to empty it and clean it thoroughly? And the chicks...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    I'm the proud owner of 24 Icies (via Lisa Richards). They're 2 1/2 weeks old and already showing some amazing colors. I haven't read all almost-2,000 pages of this thread but I'll be following it now. Wish me luck, I'm a little nervous. New mom syndrome!
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