Icelandic Chickens

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"Steal" being a really loose term, since I only pick up the ones on the ground, toss the bird-pecked ones in the stroller, and pile the "good" ones by their front door.

...you had to go and steal all my street cred.

Oh, okay then. I guess that's acceptable.

You can come pick my fruit, take the bird pecked ones and leave the good ones at my door. Wait - I don't have much fruit this year thanks to the snow. I have 3 plums on my whole tree (just found them yesterday), 5 nectarines on my whole tree, a decent amount of peaches (didn't have to thin them though). That's it out of 14 trees. No apples, pluots, my other plum tree has nothing, no figs either. Blackberries are setting a ton though. I guess on the plus side, the trees are going to grow like crazy this year and hopefully I'll have a great fruit year next year.
 
The chicks just love it outside. They run and play all day long. The little runt with the odd feathers can not jump up to the doorway like the others do. I worry about this one. I made a ramp, but the others don't really even need it.

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Actually, my gene pool is more diverse than most as I have birds from both imports made by Sigrid as well as the line brought in by Lyle Behl. I have never had one with frayed feathers.

I am sorry for the confusion, I wasn't saying that your gene pool wasn't diverse, I was saying that the people who were hatching your grand chickies and great grand chickies were possibly getting multiple doses of the same gene that is causing the weird feather.
 
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taz, Although my original four Icelandics came from Mary, my two roos were from Sigrid's flock and my two hens from eggs from Marty's flock (from Lyle) that Mary hatched. Totally unrelated.
Ditto on the survivability of these birds in the wild. Their inability to get off the ground very far makes them extremely vulnerable.

Then I really have no idea.....
 
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Actually, my gene pool is more diverse than most as I have birds from both imports made by Sigrid as well as the line brought in by Lyle Behl. I have never had one with frayed feathers.

I am sorry for the confusion, I wasn't saying that your gene pool wasn't diverse, I was saying that the people who were hatching your grand chickies and great grand chickies were possibly getting multiple doses of the same gene that is causing the weird feather.

I hope you didn't take offense to my reply. I was just clarifying.
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Actually, my gene pool is more diverse than most as I have birds from both imports made by Sigrid as well as the line brought in by Lyle Behl. I have never had one with frayed feathers.

I am sorry for the confusion, I wasn't saying that your gene pool wasn't diverse, I was saying that the people who were hatching your grand chickies and great grand chickies were possibly getting multiple doses of the same gene that is causing the weird feather.

The fray gene (fr, Fr+) and the silkied gene (h, H+) are both autosomal recessive (one gene from each parent). If this is a mutation, it can happen to any breed at any time. By the way, this chick came from my stock, not from the eggs Mary sent me. May 30th I posted this (same chick).....

Update ..... 10 pips.
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Mary,
Have you ever had a runt or a failure to thrive? I have this one little guy. He just is not growing and is light as a feather. I just don't know if he will make it much longer. I watch him and I think he is eating. I dip his beak in water a few times a day. See, this light one, pictured with a couple siblings....

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Oh My Goodness! I'm so glad Michael is alright. And how lucky that you decided not to go with him this time.

I will watch for the eggs and candle them when they get here.

Be careful out there.
 

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