Icelandic Chickens

[melissL82]

Can you post some head shots a little closer up? I don't want to guess without a better look.

the first one I'm unsure about because the lack of waddle. Second one I'm pretty sure is a boy

 

[melissL82]

Can you post some head shots a little closer up? I don't want to guess without a better look.

 

[Redhenny]

Cock needs a home on a farm that can tolerate noise. Last year someone tossed a throat cut bleeding dead Rhode Island Cock in my backyard. People say it was mine but no no no I hated that ******* myself crowing at all hours every night for almost a year and then someone murdered it!

 

[JacquelineJ]

the first one I'm unsure about because the lack of waddle. Second one I'm pretty sure is a boy

I'd say that is a little boy. I've been spending a lot of time looking at photos of icelandic chicks on the two Norwegian pages I am on on FB and you can just make out the red in his jaw line..

 

[JacquelineJ]

I've 15 so I didn't photograph each one! About 7 are light yellow and coming in as what I guess is "partridge" coloring. Dad to these was a real mix and a lot of white. The second ro was a more typical black and beetle green with copper halo and a bit of white. Another 4 are a muted "chipmunk" colouring which also seems to be coming in a bit "partridge". These three are some of them at 24hrs, I'm VERY excited to have 2 like the first picture, and i am convinced the grey one is a girl:

 

[JacquelineJ]

wing feather development on a one week old icelandic chick. i couldn't coax any of the three in the previous photos to me to get this photo so here is another one. they're already trying them out and "flying" short distances. My marans aren't even close to this developed but are getting way chunkier. I guess that's the difference between a landrace that survived on its own for 1000's of years versus a kept breed?

 

[NotAFarm]

wing feather development on a one week old icelandic chick. i couldn't coax any of the three in the previous photos to me to get this photo so here is another one. they're already trying them out and "flying" short distances. My marans aren't even close to this developed but are getting way chunkier. I guess that's the difference between a landrace that survived on its own for 1000's of years versus a kept breed?

I've seen this in my flock too. They develop quicker and when raised by a hen, can be self-sufficient at 4-5 weeks...the length some of my hens wean them.

Here are some of my flock enjoying some free ranging in the rain yesterday.

 

[Nariah01]

Wow this thread is HUGE! I attempted to read from the start but only made it a few hundred pages in before I just got swarmed and skipped to the end. lol
I just recently got two Icelandic rooster(or so I was told) to help protect my free ranging flock of ladies. They are a little skittish and they are I think still learning proper manners with the hens. But I love them so far, Any name suggestions would be welcome as we would like to give them Icelandic names if possible. I am hoping as they settle in and age they will learn proper manners with my girls so I can keep both boys as I would hate to have to rehome one.
What do you guys think, do they look like true Icelandic's?

 

[Nariah01]

And sorry its the best picture I could get of them they are not used to people being around. They came from a person who took in an entire Icelandic flock from a person who could no longer keep them. When they brought them home they realized they had way to many roosters so we took these two off their hands. They are supposed to be about a year old and brothers.

 

[NotAFarm]

@Nariah01 Welcome!
The only way to be truly sure if your guys are pure Icelandic, is to know that the breeder who had them had pure stock from someone who kept the stock they had pure. There is no way, by looks alone, that anyone can say they are "true Icelandics". It is difficult to maintain a pure genetic pool and there are many sources that aren't diligent about purity. Having multiple breeds and keeping them separate requires diligence, and a larger coop(s).
If you are confident the person you got them from was diligent, and the person whose flock they got was diligent about purity, that is as close as you can be to knowing they are "true Icelandics".