Icelandic Chickens

[AK Michelle]

HOUSTON, WE HAVE LIFT-OFF!!!

3 of the Icelandic girls made use of the new nest boxes.

The completely broody girl paced the wall, looking longingly back, across the turkey pen, to the old nest boxes. A couple others hunted and scratched while singing the egg song. They'll figure it out soon.

I'm so excited to finally be hatching my own Icelandic eggs. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate Mary and Kathy sending me eggs but since the whole point was to grow them out and make more it's awesome to be at the "make more" stage of the game :d

 

[AK Michelle]

Wife's basketball team (7th grade girls) played good as a team, but since we are a small town they go against teams that play club ball and such, so they lost most of their games. They took 2nd in one tournament and this last tournament didn't place, but my wife was pleased with how well they played. (ps this was typed by my wife)
As far as a count of Icelandics... I have 10 hens, 2 Roo's, 13 NYD, and 11 one week olds... so 36 is the count right now.
Tomorrow I will go get some new pics of the younger ones. and my new grow out pen.
Thanks for asking NotAFarm.

My sons team (5/6 grade boys) is in the same boat. The boys improved a lot this season but they only won a couple games, their tourney is tonight, I imagine it will be over quickly

 

[AK Michelle]

Lock down tonight!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to meet my new Icelandic flock. Have 30 I

celandics from the "Other Mary" and 7 of my own Dorkings!!!

And you have your camera ready, right?

 

[Farmerboy16]

Lock down tonight!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to meet my new Icelandic flock. Have 30 I

celandics from the "Other Mary" and 7 of my own Dorkings!!!

Hope they all hatch well!!

 

[Jake Levi]

Shucks Sheriff ! While I was reading your post for traffic you announced you'd made it !! Then while I was reading your site I read that the little mu is a he ! and then that the porkers had left !!!

Such trauma on just one reading !!

No wonder the blog features so many cheese feasts !!

Daron are we going to get some good news this week???

Meanwhile life goes on, Isi's SC is slowly healing, and looking really ugly. But he is making headway.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[Happy Chooks]

Mary, I haven't tried to candle the Isbar eggs....can you see into them easily?

I'm not Mary, but I've incubated the Isbar eggs - a little trickier to see veining, but you can tell development based on the darkness in the shell and you can clearly see movement. Not as difficult as the dark eggs, like wellies.

 

[AK Michelle]

Shucks Sheriff ! While I was reading your post for traffic you announced you'd made it !! Then while I was reading your site I read that the little mu is a he ! and then that the porkers had left !!!

Such trauma on just one reading !!

No wonder the blog features so many cheese feasts !!

Daron are we going to get some good news this week???

Meanwhile life goes on, Isi's SC is slowly healing, and looking really ugly. But he is making headway.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

Jake what did I miss? What happened to Isi?

 

[AK Michelle]

Kelly i need help seperating the girls from the boys... I'm going to try and get pictures tonight of the New Years Day hatch chicks. I have a few I just can't make up my mind on.

 

[The Sheriff]

Thanks Jake, when we re-home an animal we eat cheese

and scratch satanic circles with x'es in the cement floor of the garage. Michael uses a sharp stone but I use battery powered Dremel tool while seated on a motorized Garden Buddy cart. Doesn't everyone?

 

[Jake Levi]

Now Mary,

Circles I believe, I etch them and other forms all of the time, but,

Satanic ???

Um , nope , we'll see the sun rise in the west and all water run uphill first before I believe that one. Try again. Cheese at rehoming sounds like an excellent tradition,

Michelle on our trip east from Wa to Mi, we hit minus 27, plus and minus from mid MT to western Mn, and Isi got much of his SC much more then frostbit but frozen, hasnt slowed him though, he is eating well, no signs of infection so far, but it sure stresed to me that barring your beautiful barn the SCs arnt a real great choice for our northern clime.

So I am sorting through mine, and will be rehoming my SCs, and any and all large RCs or other Combs . With or without cheesy feasts. Now that is been suggested I can see adding the cheese for a new home well wish.

My white featherlegged rooster will be one rehomed, along with Isi, and possibly Bjorn whose RC did get some black speckles on that same trip, the jury is out there yet.

The dark feather-legged rooster has a very nice crest, a smaller RC, and as near as I can tell he has for want of a better term 'enhanced feathering' over all of his body. I can see him getting the majority of the breedings this year in my flock. I might let Bjorn sire some and then rehome him as Bjorn was the pick of his hatch on a growth standpoint, so I can see saving back some of his pullets that have his growth.

I am making several selections this year, growth and small combs being two factors, along with hardiness, rangeability, maternal traits and feathering.