Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

Here is the Kella picture of the week. Yes, that is a fence she's on...No, it's NOT the fence to the pullet yard...Yes, it's the fence to the main yard..How many times since Sunday night last week have I put Kella back into the pullet yard before lock-up...every night but one...No, not because she stayed in the pullet yard but because I didn't find her until I had been to the pullet coop and locked them up and saw she was missing...she wasn't in with the two boys that are in her old coop, not with layers, not with the week before or Easter Hatchalongs....a bit of a panic...then the barn cat looks above my head and there she sits on the truss of the barn, ten feet off the ground...

... and I was worried clipping her wing might make it difficult for her to evade a predator

This girl has the roaming Viking blood in mega doses!!

Struttin' her stuff:

Kella, What are doing over here?.......Who me?

 

[kathyinmo]

hahahaha! Kella is a hoot! She makes me laugh out loud! Another gypsy!

I moved the babies outside into their own coop today.

It started to rain about 5:30 tonight, so I locked up the babies. (I have 4 coops of babies) It was 92 today, and quickly dropped down to 75. I put heat lamps in each of the coops with babies. I went out to lock up the adults about 8:30 and saw a HUGE raccoon! I swear it was bigger than my trap! I have never ever seen such a huge coon! OMG, I am worried sick. Brittney went outside and lit off some M-80s. I hope the heck that scares him far away from here.

 

[The Sheriff]

Odd baby alert. I've not seen one like this.

It is a cute little blondie.

Looks like it will be crested.

But it has one black stripe on it's head like a mohawk.

And two stripes down it's back.

Just different than any I have seen.

 

[kathyinmo]

I hatched a couple sorta like a variation of that (from your eggs). I like that peachy-buff color, too!

 

[The Sheriff]

I'll bet the end up looking like this!

 

[kathyinmo]

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With deformed beaks, too? OH NO ! ! !

 

[tazcat70]

And webbed tootsies!

 

[kathyinmo]

Does that mean they will be culls?

 

[The Sheriff]

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Nah, they'll just need a pool.

 

[NotAFarm]

Mary, I love the "eye dash" in this pic!!

Very unique! You'll have to keep us posted on how "she" looks as she gets older!!