Icelandic Chickens

[LittleChickSpy]

My highest roost in the coop I built for them is only about 3 feet up. :/ I have considered putting the coop on stilts, haha. Hoping they decide my soon to be new goat shelter is better than a tree. They roost 20-30 feet up!

 

[LittleChickSpy]

There used to be a gang of 5 or so that roosted lower than the others. I used to go drag them all down every night . & put them into their coop. I gave up on that over a month ago. They roost too high for me to reach anymore, anyway.

 

[RedIII]

LCS, I just wait for mine to fly down for breakfast, then bag who I want with the net. I'm too short to get some of them out of the tree.

Deputy, I have noticed that the duck wing coloration seems to be dominant in some bloodlines, particularly the birds I have from Shawn. They're mostly from Sheriff Mary and Kathy in MO's earlier birds, I believe. I did finally have one hen throw a red cockerel very similar to the red jungle fowl coloration. Kind of fun to see.

 

[deputychicken21]

How many is enough?!

Ill never have enough!!

 

[NotAFarm]

Quote: Oh, to have unlimited space and funds to have all I want! But, alas, reality keeps my flock at a "reasonable" size. 21 (three non-Icees) at the current time.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Oh, to have unlimited space and funds to have all I want! But, alas, reality keeps my flock at a "reasonable" size. 21 (three non-Icees) at the current time.
The unlimited funds would be important, because if I had all I wanted I certainly would be paying someone else to clean the coops!

 

[NotAFarm]

The unlimited funds would be important, because if I had all I wanted I certainly would be paying someone else to clean the coops!

A coop cleaner would be nice.....or a tractor with a bucket so I could put the litter in and drive it to the composting pile....both requiring more funds than are available for the chicken habit

 

[mlm Mike]

Love the decorated avatar @NotAFarm !

 

[NotAFarm]

Love the decorated avatar @NotAFarm !

Thanks, Mike! Perchiegirl, deb, did it for me. Many of us at The Cold Folks Home are sporting the holiday spirit compliments of deb.

..........speaking of holidays, we were out of town for a few days to see the grandchildren and it seems I haven't missed much. Anything new with Sunna?

I made the hard decision on the cockerels....they all went. I only have Audun and one almost 3 month old rose comb cockerel for males. He probably would have gone but is too small right now. I am thinking I might need some eggs in the spring to hatch a successor to Audun. Do you have your flocks separated or do they all run together? Your mix of David's and Mary's appeals to me. Let me know.

 

[mlm Mike]

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Sunna is getting heavy. X-rays scheduled 12/23, should let us know how many and if any look particularly large. I plan to keep last spring's (2014) hatches separate from the older flock to hatch spring 2015. I still need to cull a few Icelandic cockerels and I still have two barny cockerels with the older Icelandics to cull. I'm having a difficult time deciding who to keep. I know the Easter hatch cockerel stays, and the Cinco de Mayo moved himself in with the barnies, so he'll stay. I think I want to keep one other one though.