Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

Here is a picture of a Swedish Flower Hen rooster belonging to KYtinpusher. She posted this picture on the Fermenting Feed thread. Looks like the cockerel posted above could be a SFH.

Please don't take this wrong, but I hope you won't breed anything and call it Icelandic, unless you are 100% sure that is what it is. What makes an Icelandic an Icelandic, is the genes that it carries, NOT how it looks. Preserving the gene pool, keeping it free from crossing with other breeds, is what preservation of the Icelandic landrace is all about. There are already detractors who want to label Icelandics as nothing more than "mutts" and barnyard mixes and when people have multiple flocks of similar breeds and keep them together, it leads to more fuel on the fire of doubt. Off the soapbox now...

REPEAT: This is a Swedish Flower Hen Cockbird belonging to KYtinpusher.....NOT an Icelandic

 

[karimw]

Well, another lesson learned the hard way here at NotAFarm.......

I have had a problem with a hawk (lost three youngsters) for a few weeks now and have been keeping my juveniles locked-up, except when I am home to watch them in the evenings. What I didn't anticipate was the hawk moving on to my larger birds. Who did it chose?....Forsaela...mother of the lovely chicks I have been posting of late. I am wondering how I could have been so stupid to think it would just leave the rest of the flock alone when I locked-up the youngsters. What a loss........she was the hen I got from kathyinmo last spring so she was extra special because of that. There is no replacing her, but I am glad I have some of her daughters here to keep her genetics in my flock. I'm heartbroken over this.

Last picture of I took of her on Monday, August 19....she was molting.....RIP beautiful treasure

So sorry about Forsaela

Such a beauty she was. I always loved her name too.

 

[NotAFarm]

Thanks Kari

I forgot to post that I found the hidden nest....really a two-in-one.....four eggs to the left (two under the brown paper) and three to the right...the tire was leaning against the wall so they had a narrow, hidden spot...no brown eggs, just white ones.......sneaky Icees...

 

[mlm Mike]

Here is a picture of a Swedish Flower Hen rooster belonging to KYtinpusher. She posted this picture on the Fermenting Feed thread. Looks like the cockerel posted above could be a SFH.

Please don't take this wrong, but I hope you won't breed anything and call it Icelandic, unless you are 100% sure that is what it is. What makes an Icelandic an Icelandic, is the genes that it carries, NOT how it looks. Preserving the gene pool, keeping it free from crossing with other breeds, is what preservation of the Icelandic landrace is all about. There are already detractors who want to label Icelandics as nothing more than "mutts" and barnyard mixes and when people have multiple flocks of similar breeds and keep them together, it leads to more fuel on the fire of doubt. Off the soapbox now...

REPEAT: This is a Swedish Flower Hen Cockbird belonging to KYtinpusher.....NOT an Icelandic

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[mlm Mike]

Good job finding the nest. Is the incubator warming up?

 

[NotAFarm]

Nope, I've got a couple of trips coming up and can't/won't trust chicken sitters to turn them. I am done hatching for this year.....unless "someone" goes broody

then I'll give them some of Fjola's eggs, since she is isolated with Falki and I know hers are pure. I keep hers in a separate holder and date them. If someone goes broody, I will give them the freshest of her eggs. There is a young New Hampshire cockerel running with the main flock, so until he is gone, no eggs from there can be set....just in case.

 

[drumstick diva]

Notafarm Oh no - not Forsaela. I am so very sorry and sad to hear that.

 

[drumstick diva]

I agree agree that Swedish flower hen roo - looks like an Icelandic - I thought it might be an ISI son. that can't be good!

 

[Jake Levi]

Yes, the SFH rooster does look like an Isi son, except for the hackles,

Icelandics are the OLDEST pure breed of chickens in the world. NOT the oldest, but the purest, from their isolation from all other breeds. We must keep them that way.

I have two breeds, and they are housed totally separate, no mixing, the growout Icelandics do have 3 young turkeys in with them right now but they are soon into their own pen.

My Icelandics are primarily light in color anyhow, except for Bjorn my blackbreasted dark duckwing. Even though he is a son of Isi. I have one dark chipmunk baby that I am wondering about, all others are very light puffballs, a couple do have the 'eye paint' streaks, who knows what they will do? Part of the fun of having them.

Now I see that I have several cockerals in this hatch so will be rehoming Bjorn and Magnus to free up their pens. Any breeders in MI who are interested in them can have them. Otherwise next month its freezer camp for them. Magnus is a large rooster, the largest I have had of the Icelandics. But, I have his sire, and siblings coming on. Life goes on.

 

[RedIII]

wow! 30 breeds, that is amazing. I assume you are running a couple of flocks, not 30 flocks?
I'm kind of disappointed that she isn't a maran, as one supposedly was fished out of the pools for me. I don't have any other pullets that could possibly be marans, the two I was uncertain of are the two you are thinking are icelandics.


want to take a guess about this guy?

Okay, don't shoot me, but my first thought was, "It looks like a mix." In my opinion definitely NOT a pure Icelandic. Could be a SFH, I suppose. The anatomy of it just looks so different to me than that of an Icee

Here's one of my juveniles to compare to. This is one of the barnyard mixes that I had hatch out this year, but it was sired by an Icee roo. It came from a brown egg.





Pretty, but just..........doesn't look like a true Icelandic.

In other news, I was out feeding this morning and while I was squatting down to reach into the run, I felt something very lightly touch my leg. Turned around to look, and here is my chocolate cockerel, Ike, nestled down on my thigh and looking at me like, "Hi!

" So I picked him up and carried him around with me for a minute. He's in the affectionate stage. In a couple of months, he won't want anything to do with me