Icelandic Chickens

[RedIII]

Love the pictures! I see a couple of those chicks that I have a hunch on so far as gender - watch my guesses be the total opposite of the truth

mbmess, three of my five Icees are crested. None of them are huge crests, like Mahonri's Phyllis. The two girls have little ladies' hats on the top-frontish part of their head, and the boy that's crested has a much more subtle topknot. When they were little, there was kind of an extra "bump" of fuzz on their head. I didn't realized my cockerel had a crest until he started getting pinfeathers on his head - the crest came in first.

 

[NotAFarm]

Kelly, So the orange "washer" is attached to the nail? Too bad.....I use deck screws to put things together so I can take apart easier when I change my mind....

.....are the "washers" available without the nails?

 

[tbitt]

My husband always called them roofing nails...


Doing a search on roofing nails with washers I came up with this:


http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/plastic-washers-for-roofing-nails.html

 

[mbmess2003]

you might want to go in on with someone.....since most require a minimum order of 5 tons!

 

[NotAFarm]

Roofing nails have a small washer "built-in" to create a seal to prevent leaking. I want a bigger, oversized washer like the one Kelly used to install hardware cloth. The washer's purpose here is to create more surface over the wires so the creepy critters can't pull it loose.
Thanks for looking though!

 

[karimw]

I like screws too. I use a big headed wood screw with large fender washers. Just need to make sure the screw head won't pull through the hole in the washer.

 

[tbitt]

I will ask my hubby.
We have nails with washers that we used to put up a water barrier around the base of our barn. The washers were large, plastic and removable.

I also think they were ring shanked..... but that makes no difference.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Kelly, So the orange "washer" is attached to the nail? Too bad.....I use deck screws to put things together so I can take apart easier when I change my mind....

.....are the "washers" available without the nails?

Yes, it's attached to the nail. But it's not a nail like you are thinking, it has threads on it like a screw. You hammer it in like a nail though. You can get them out with a crow bar, but they aren't easy to remove.

These are them:
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-25e...ring+shanked+nails&storeId=10051#.UO3u_HewX-E

 

[NotAFarm]

Thanks for the help everyone!

We used 3 1/2" ring-shanked nails to build our barn frame in 2000...also has hurricane straps on the rafters and poles five feet in the ground. It will take a serious tornado to take that thing down!

I have "remodeled" various "chicken things" enough to know that screws are my friend and they make it so much easier to reconfigure things when I decide I need to. One of these days, maybe, I'll have it all done perfectly and won't need to change anything.......but for now, I'll be checking out plastic washers that will work with my square drive deck screws.

I think we need more pictures.......so... here is one of Asta, hatched first week of May '10 by The Sheriff from eggs she got from Marty Favre.
Taken on Saturday, Jan 5, 2013.

 

[coldupnorth]

Thanks for the help everyone!

We used 3 1/2" ring-shanked nails to build our barn frame in 2000...also has hurricane straps on the rafters and poles five feet in the ground. It will take a serious tornado to take that thing down!

I have "remodeled" various "chicken things" enough to know that screws are my friend and they make it so much easier to reconfigure things when I decide I need to. One of these days, maybe, I'll have it all done perfectly and won't need to change anything.......but for now, I'll be checking out plastic washers that will work with my square drive deck screws.

I think we need more pictures.......so... here is one of Asta, hatched first week of May '10 by The Sheriff from eggs she got from Marty Favre.
Taken on Saturday, Jan 5, 2013.

What a beautiful girl! Love the lacing on some of the feathers!