Icelandic Chickens

[mlm Mike]

my one remaining icee chicky. feathering so far.

WOW! She is really feathering out quickly.

 

[janelle18]

WOW! She is really feathering out quickly.

yeah they all are!

Janelle, I'm guessing PULLET! Guess we'll have to wait and see!

i hope so ! i will be so sad if it is a roo, since i only have one

I have one mystery chick, as of right now it looks like an icelandic or dorking, I THOUGHT it was a dorking but it doesn't have the extra toe like all the others! I still think it is probably a dorking but it is interesting.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Beautiful feathering!

 

[Jake Levi]

I hope that she soon has some Icelandic companions.

 

[mlm Mike]

Here is a picture of our little flock hero, an Icelandic cockerel hatched last summer:




Yesterday, my wife and I were just finishing putting new bedding down for the goats, I hear a commotion outside. I look out the door and this guy is mixing it up with a juvenile red tail hawk. The hawk flew away, I look around, all the hens were under cover, with the other roosters standing guard. I wish one of the older roosters with some nice spurs would have gotten the hawk, but I didn't loose any. Hopefully that hawk learned that chickens aren't the easy meal he expected.

 

[Jake Levi]

Janelle do you plan to get more? She is nicely grown out for just two weeks in that pic.

 

[NotAFarm]

Here is a picture of our little flock hero, an Icelandic cockerel hatched last summer:




Yesterday, my wife and I were just finishing putting new bedding down for the goats, I hear a commotion outside. I look out the door and this guy is mixing it up with a juvenile red tail hawk. The hawk flew away, I look around, all the hens were under cover, with the other roosters standing guard. I wish one of the older roosters with some nice spurs would have gotten the hawk, but I didn't loose any. Hopefully that hawk learned that chickens aren't the easy meal he expected.

Yay, for the brave cockerel!!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Here is a picture of our little flock hero, an Icelandic cockerel hatched last summer:




Yesterday, my wife and I were just finishing putting new bedding down for the goats, I hear a commotion outside. I look out the door and this guy is mixing it up with a juvenile red tail hawk. The hawk flew away, I look around, all the hens were under cover, with the other roosters standing guard. I wish one of the older roosters with some nice spurs would have gotten the hawk, but I didn't loose any. Hopefully that hawk learned that chickens aren't the easy meal he expected.

fingers crossed. my poor icelandic's where not so lucky.

 

[mlm Mike]

fingers crossed. my poor icelandic's where not so lucky.

Thanks, I was thinking about all the trouble you had.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Thanks, I was thinking about all the trouble you had.

maybe being that hawks first attempt did not fair so well it will imprint chickens as a aggressive food and look somewhere else. My hawk got the first one so he figured they taste good and where easy food.
Good luck