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I am thinking about calling 9-1-1 to Kelly's house. She is online and hasn't chimed in to say Tiny Dancer is a boy. She may be laying out in the chicken yard bleeding from the ankles.
Icelandic Chickens
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Mary.... You are only about 1/2 way to a herd...but at the rate you are going, you'll have a full herd by August!!!
Mary.... You are only about 1/2 way to a herd...but at the rate you are going, you'll have a full herd by August!!!
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Oh, you like splatter paint, too?
Yes, I think that does qualify as a herd. A really gorgeous herd, at that! They are sooooooo cute!
Oh, you like splatter paint, too?
Yes, I think that does qualify as a herd. A really gorgeous herd, at that! They are sooooooo cute!
I moved the all the young daughters of Ari/Anna&Asta out of their mixed hatching groups into one coop. I have 10 of them that will be keepers and while three of the Easter Hatch girls look very similiar, the other 7 are very distinguishable from one another. 8 of the 10 have crests of varying sizes. I am impressed with this because neither Anna nor Asta has a crest. Of the nine little ones not separated yet, looks like 7 are most likely male.
Baldur (Big Boy) and Lil Sis (please let her be a her!) continue to be speed demons and have Chickie Mama going in circles after them.
I put 14 of Anna's eggs, layed over a two week period, in the incubator last week. These chicks will all be Audun's, hoping for some pullets!!
Seinna, The Other Mary
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I am hoping for pullets for ya, too! Good luck! And for me, too! I am keeping only pullets from this batch. I have 4 roosters, and I love them. Enough boys!
I am hoping for pullets for ya, too! Good luck! And for me, too! I am keeping only pullets from this batch. I have 4 roosters, and I love them. Enough boys!
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Good luck with the pullets ladies!
I had 48 eggs in the Brinseas due to lockdown on Thursday. Being the serial candler that I am and knowing that it was probably 100 degrees in the barn anyway, I candled! 47 are movin' and groovin'. But I only ended up with 41 eggs back in the Brinseas. No, I didn't drop them. I took seven out to fill an egg order!
Yes, it's serial broody Lukka! She is now sitting on the very same 7 eggs she abandoned almost three weeks ago! I had marked them with big X's so I knew which ones they were. She has been sitting for three days now on stolen eggs that I take from her every hour. I decided she was serious about this and gave her eggs back to her. Michael and I were talking and just realized that Lukka is the only Icelandic we have had that has been broody! Probably a good thing! Hopefully she stays on the eggs and hatches them all out. We have been longing for a broody with more than one chick!
I have a friend coming to pick out some chicks from the hatches due July 3 and July 5. This new development will lesson the pool of chicks she will have to choose from, unless she decides to don the Kevlar gloves and check out Lukka's babies!
I had 48 eggs in the Brinseas due to lockdown on Thursday. Being the serial candler that I am and knowing that it was probably 100 degrees in the barn anyway, I candled! 47 are movin' and groovin'. But I only ended up with 41 eggs back in the Brinseas. No, I didn't drop them. I took seven out to fill an egg order!
Yes, it's serial broody Lukka! She is now sitting on the very same 7 eggs she abandoned almost three weeks ago! I had marked them with big X's so I knew which ones they were. She has been sitting for three days now on stolen eggs that I take from her every hour. I decided she was serious about this and gave her eggs back to her. Michael and I were talking and just realized that Lukka is the only Icelandic we have had that has been broody! Probably a good thing! Hopefully she stays on the eggs and hatches them all out. We have been longing for a broody with more than one chick!
I have a friend coming to pick out some chicks from the hatches due July 3 and July 5. This new development will lesson the pool of chicks she will have to choose from, unless she decides to don the Kevlar gloves and check out Lukka's babies!
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Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
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I have a pullet that I think is the most unique and beautiful Icelandic I have ever had. She has a few feathers in the front that curl inward. But she is stunning! I will have to see how the feathering progresses and I may move her into the layer pen and not breed her. Opinions?
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Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
Maybe it is her way of avoiding sex, kinda like when we get headaches?
Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
Maybe it is her way of avoiding sex, kinda like when we get headaches?
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Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
Maybe it is her way of avoiding sex, kinda like when we get headaches?
That really is true. I have seen the girls "pretend broody," and hide out in the nests!
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I think she is just gorgeous! Why would it matter that her feathers curl? I hope I hatched one of her eggs!
Her daughter, Kola, has been broody and I believe that Sunna is broody now, too. I have taken her off the nest the past 2 days. I dunked her today, and tonight she was on the roost.
Lukka is just made to brood! Silly girl. She loves those babies, and we love her!
Maybe it is her way of avoiding sex, kinda like when we get headaches?
That really is true. I have seen the girls "pretend broody," and hide out in the nests!
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I think she is just gorgeous! Why would it matter that her feathers curl? I hope I hatched one of her eggs!
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