Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

I have never had an Icelandic with white legs. Not saying that it couldn't happen but why don't you think the cockerel is a Sulmtaler? He has a single comb and since you got pullets, it would seem that is a possibility. Here is a link to the Sulmtaler Breed Club page that talks about the Splash Wheaten and describes what it looks like.
http://www.sulmtalerusa.com/breed.html

Here is the cock that is in the lower right corner of the picture that you asked about. He was just over two years old at the time the photo was taken.

 

[lalaland]

thats a beautiful bird!

Yes, you would think my unidentified rooster could be a sulmtaler, except that the sulmtaler roosters are black, russet, orange, and yellow legged to boot. I'm planning on getting sulmtaler hatching eggs next spring and hoping to be able to get a breeding group going.

I haven't seen such a light colored icelandic as your rooster, but his head sure caught my eye in your picture. I know this woman hatched some super blue egg layers (leghornx ee) so it is possible mine is a leghorn mix. but those white legs are just throwing me. but who knows?

thanks!

 

[Myrth]

When I became interested in Icelandic chickens, my research lead me to BYC and this thread, which I read from the beginning. I am glad I did because that is how I met Mary, and how I now have such a lovely little flock. It also prepared me for what I found tonight when I got home from work.

I walked to the barn and entered the coop that is in the barn. No birds in sight. I looked around the coop. They had made nests in the nest boxes. l collected their first egg. Then I heard the sleepy chicken song. I looked up. I couldn't see them. I turned a light upward, and then spotted them in the upper rafters!

All my previous chickens were very large fowl with little real flying ability. They could get to places 5 or 6 feet off the ground, but nothing like this. Thankfully, this thread prepared me for this. We put up chicken wire ALL the way up so there is no way they will get out to go poop on my saddles. LOL

I am trying to post the photo I took of them up in the rafters, but am having issues. I will try to add them as an edit to this post later.

 

[Myrth]

Trying again, using Tapatalk. Let's see if this works...

Chickens roosting in the rafters ...

First Icelandic egg....

 

[Happy Chooks]

When I became interested in Icelandic chickens, my research lead me to BYC and this thread, which I read from the beginning. I am glad I did because that is how I met Mary, and how I now have such a lovely little flock. It also prepared me for what I found tonight when I got home from work.

I walked to the barn and entered the coop that is in the barn. No birds in sight. I looked around the coop. They had made nests in the nest boxes. l collected their first egg. Then I heard the sleepy chicken song. I looked up. I couldn't see them. I turned a light upward, and then spotted them in the upper rafters!

All my previous chickens were very large fowl with little real flying ability. They could get to places 5 or 6 feet off the ground, but nothing like this. Thankfully, this thread prepared me for this. We put up chicken wire ALL the way up so there is no way they will get out to go poop on my saddles. LOL

I am trying to post the photo I took of them up in the rafters, but am having issues. I will try to add them as an edit to this post later.

That's an Icelandic for you! They love to get as high as they can. I had to block my rafters off to keep them off of them.

 

[NotAFarm]

Myrth, Already laying and sleeping in the rafters.....Sounds like they are making themselves right at home!

 

[NotAFarm]

thats a beautiful bird!

Yes, you would think my unidentified rooster could be a sulmtaler, except that the sulmtaler roosters are black, russet, orange, and yellow legged to boot. I'm planning on getting sulmtaler hatching eggs next spring and hoping to be able to get a breeding group going.

I haven't seen such a light colored icelandic as your rooster, but his head sure caught my eye in your picture. I know this woman hatched some super blue egg layers (leghornx ee) so it is possible mine is a leghorn mix. but those white legs are just throwing me. but who knows?

thanks!

If you look at the link I posted, it says (bold lettering is my highlight):

" Splash Wheaten x Splash Wheaten = All Splash Wheaten

The only difference between the Wheaten and the Blue Wheaten is that the Blue Wheaten is blue everywhere that the Wheaten is black. It is hard for the untrained eye to distinguish between a Blue Wheaten hen and a Wheaten hen.

Splash Wheaten could be described as a Red Pyle male and a white tailed buff female.
Splash Wheaten Head: Plumage Bright Orange
Neck: Hackle-white laced with bright orange.
Front of neck- salmon
Back, Tail, And Wings: White
Breast: Rich pinkish salmon
Body, Stern, Lower Thighs & Undercolor: White"

This is a comparison of two Standards for the Sulmtaler
"Legs: Almost medium long, smooth, four toes and flesh colored.
Legs: Medium long, smooth, pale flesh-colored, on the sides and between the toes pink. Toes: Medium length, well spread."

The black, russet, orange males are the Wheaten variety.....Blue Wheaten exists in Sulmtalers and where there is blue, there is Splash.

 

[lalaland]

If you look at the link I posted, it says (bold lettering is my highlight):

" Splash Wheaten x Splash Wheaten = All Splash Wheaten

The only difference between the Wheaten and the Blue Wheaten is that the Blue Wheaten is blue everywhere that the Wheaten is black. It is hard for the untrained eye to distinguish between a Blue Wheaten hen and a Wheaten hen.

Splash Wheaten could be described as a Red Pyle male and a white tailed buff female.
Splash Wheaten Head: Plumage Bright Orange
Neck: Hackle-white laced with bright orange.
Front of neck- salmon
Back, Tail, And Wings: White
Breast: Rich pinkish salmon
Body, Stern, Lower Thighs & Undercolor: White"

This is a comparison of two Standards for the Sulmtaler
"Legs: Almost medium long, smooth, four toes and flesh colored.
Legs: Medium long, smooth, pale flesh-colored, on the sides and between the toes pink. Toes: Medium length, well spread."

The black, russet, orange males are the Wheaten variety.....Blue Wheaten exists in Sulmtalers and where there is blue, there is Splash.

yes, but I think the sulmtaler males are not light colored, they are: "The black, russet, orange males are the Wheaten variety". Sulmtaler thread folks say the light colored rooster I have is not sulmtaler.

This breed id stuff is so interesting!

 

[Jake Levi]

Re my late hatches from Marys eggs, I am going to stick my neck out and say I have 3 pullets and one rooster! They are feathered out, and tails, combs, and ears look like pullets on the 3. Just one Rc with creast, and one SC without either. But she is a little sweetheart, loves to be petted, and first at the door when I approach. Her gentleness is also attracting the creasted pullet. The one rooster is SC but beginning to show some really nice dark coloring. Of the summer hatched ones in the outside brooder the dark mottled rooster is really gorgeous, but, he is SC. All five of them are. Life goes on.

 

[NotAFarm]

Hello Everyone! I trust you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving! It was 8 F degrees on the barn thermometer this morning and got up to 34 F. We will are forecast to have above freezing temps daytime highs for the next seven days.

I've still got thousands of leaves to bag so I hope the weather will be dry and "decently warm" for awhile.

It looks like the final total on the Falki x Fjola chicks are cockerels 4 and pullets 3. Heidi has all four of the cockerels (the one of hers that was monochromatic and I though might be a pullet wasn't) and Elska has all three of the pullets

What are the odds of that? Heidi started out with all 10 eggs from Fjola and then when Eslka went broody, I split the eggs between them. Each hatched four chicks and one of Elska's died within a day or two. Now I have to wonder if it was a pullet too. Well, I guess the cockerels will be hanging around for a bit. Heidi is still mothering them and with Audun, Eldur, Galdur and Galsi around, they aren't misbehaving....yet. I'd like to see what they look like as they get a bit older. I'll try and get some updated pictures one of these days.