Well, I'm embarrassed! It is indeed a chick, most likely a cochin/icelandic cross. It hatched with the keets, so a cochin must have slipped an egg in the nest a week after I set the guinea eggs under two cochin hens. I didn't plan to hatch any mutts...
That is fantastic! Thank you! No matter how many ways I Googled it I couldn’t find those posts. I didn't look for "anomaly" though...I'm not going to hatch any more chicks this year anyway, so I'll just keep an eye on her.
I've had Icelandics for about four or five years and I remember reading a long time ago that sometimes feather problems will pop up. I thought I was immune but now I have a pullet that looks like she is going through a really bad molt. No one is feather picking her. she has looked like that...
I have a young Tolbunt pair available. A frizzled pullet and a smooth cockerel. They are six weeks old and are from Gretchen Bare's line. Local pickup near Asheboro NC only.
I have seven males and nine females. There are colombian males and females, black males and females and barred males. I plan to keep one or maybe two of the cockerels. Which color males would best go with colombian and black females? Barred, black or colombian?
No, both roosters are different, and I only have three hens now (one died). All the hens look alike. Everything is from the eggs I got from Mary. The roosters are first generation and the hens are first and second. I have four chicks now but it is too early to tell what they will look like. I...
I got my start from Mary, the Sheriff. The two roosters I have are from the original hatch. I suppose I should raise up another rooster or two, but after five years their fertility is still good. Two months ago I had 18 eggs split between a Silkie and my incubator. After two week of dedicated...
I've had Icelandics for five years and have never lost one to predators. They free range and I don't lock them up at night. They roost in a coop with the door open. There are coyotes, foxes, raccoons and hawks here.
I don't know why I've been so lucky. Maybe it's the dogs, a lab and a lab/chow...
I am doing this right now. There was a nest of Icelandic eggs in a corner of the coop and a couple of days ago a Guinea hen was sitting there. That night she was still there.
The next day I threw out some scratch and the Guinea hen left the nest to get some and I took her two eggs out of the...
I'm closing this listing because many of my customers last season had poor hatch rates. Of course, shipping can be very traumatic to eggs but I felt responsible nevertheless and replaced many dozen eggs free of charge. Thank you all for your complimentary comments and patronage.
Randall
They are Tolbunt Polish.
They start out with pink legs, then turn bluish grey as they get older. Here are a couple of mine when they were a few days old:
By the time they are three weeks old they have started to turn: