Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

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Mahonri, I posted the baby picture of Ari on the Easter Hatch thread, but if the chick is silver as you say, it could look more like possible mom, Asta, pictured below... or in true Icelandic form....it could turn out to not look like either of them!!

 

[The Sheriff]

Maybe it will look my my silver girl. She is a gunmetal color. Beautiful, all of them!

 

[phasianidae]

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Thats a cool coop! and a nice looking rooster too!

Thanks, funny story, Daria met a lady in a store on Main Street who knows me and the thing she came away with was them uniting in a VOTE against my beard! Daria...THAT made my day

! Only in Fredericksburg would this happen to me!

The rooster looks evil and he can be really mean if you try to hold him. He has bitten my face, my hands even got a hold on my beard once and wouldn"t let go! But I still love em, God gave em that temperment so they could survive all the varmints!
Thank Daria for all the pics everyone!

Andy in Fredericksburg

maybe you need a poll on your beard

I think it looks fine, I thought you mentioned somewhere on this thread that is was white though.

 

[dldolan]

This thread is SOOO entertaining. Glad I joined with my three not female Icelandics!

 

[The Sheriff]

I caught Lukka teaching the baby to drink today. Kathy, can you believe how white this chick is? I am excited to see how it turns out. Hope it's a girl! If it can survive being squished, hatching early and being nearly dead it has to be a girl!



By the way, NEVER click on the youtube video they "recommend" after the completion of mine. They are ususally gross and disgusting.

 

[dldolan]

I love to see those mamas hard at work! The lovely clucking noise, "Come here, kids, and see the great stuff I just turned up for you" is so lovely! This is why I will wait for a broody to get some eggs from y'all!!

BTW, the Emu-flipping video was stinkin' hysterical.

 

[kathyinmo]

Oh my gosh, that is just about the sweetest thing ever!

Lukka has got to be mama of the year! She is fabulous! I can hardly wait to see that chick grown out, too! She is sooooooooo white!

 

[Mahonri]

Gotta love those broodies

Midnight update on the hatch.

Hatched = 14!... in order of hatch... ( I'm glad I'm keeping track of it this way so I can keep track of the birds.)

1 brown Icelandic (TW)--- The Warden
1 blonde Icelandic (TW)
1 blonde Icelandic (TW)
1 BWA, my coop
1 chipmunk Icelandic (TW)
1 blonde Icelandic (TW)
1 light brownish Icelandic (The other Mary!)
1 blonde Icelandic (kathyinmo) FROM THE BRINSEA! (Came out of a LONG white egg.. .he is huge)
1 BWA, pasofinofarm... I pray this is not the only one I get!
1 black Icelandic (TW) toes have straightened out!
1 blonde Icelandic (TW)
1 brown Icelandic (TW)
1 brown Icelandic (TW)
1 light brownish Icelandic (The other Mary)

So 12 Icelandics, 2 BWAs, no EEs or brown eggs pipped.

 

[kathyinmo]

You are gonna have a LOT of Icelandic chicks! SOON, very very soon you will have full brooders!

 

[Mahonri]

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I so LOVE your positive attitude and I SO PRAY you are correct. Still have 50 eggs in there that haven't even pipped yet.