Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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Good one, Mary! Hey, you are really good at rationalizing. REALLY good!

SHEEESH, I suppose that means I have to stop eating my Icelandic eggs and incubate them now.

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.

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Well, I admit it..... Yes, I have earned the "Expert Badge," in rationalizing. I just didn't realize Mary had earned expert status, too.

 

[The Sheriff]

I am trying to name my two roos.

The first one is small but beautiful. He has a nice deep crow and is fairly calm. He is the one who is most accepted by the rest of the flock.

The second one is huge and I think as time goes on may challenge Isi for the top spot. He is universally hated by all the girls and chases them relentlessly. He has a very high pitched crow. His good outweighs the bad at this point and I have no plans to re-home him. In the sunlight he literally looks iridescent.

Any thoughts? Please, only names I can pronounce and remember. I am old.

 

[The Sheriff]

This little girl is all that and a bag of chips!

 

[Happy Chooks]

My that 2nd one has a really long tail! Hmmmm, I'll have to think about it.


BTW, Luna has morphed from the independent diva. She's now the bad influence child. I collected 2, yes 2, white eggs from the bag of shavings today. So thoughtful of her to teach Briet to be a bad girl too.

 

[The Sheriff]

Kathy, I gave BarnGirl the injection a few days ago and aspirated pus out of her foot. It looked better for few days then I noticed it was swollen again today. I aspiated a good amount of pus with an 18 gauge needle and gave her a second injection of PCN. I ordered some #11 scalpels today and when they arrive I am going to open it up a bit, clean it out again, and encourage it to drain. How are your doing?

 

[The Sheriff]

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Well, they didn't act like that when they lived here.

 

[kathyinmo]

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OMG! What is "GORGEOUS" in Icelandic? She is a raving beauty!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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OMG! What is "GORGEOUS" in Icelandic? She is a raving beauty!

Agreed! She is all that AND a bag of chips! Stunning!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Well, they didn't act like that when they lived here.

Yeah sure. You know Stella had private conversations with them.

I'm sure it went something like this..............okay, you really want to drive the stupid human nuts? Then just lay your eggs in some strange place like a goat feeder, or under the goat platform. Then teach the others how to do it too. And don't forget the daily escape act, that will really put them in a tizzy......etc.

 

[The Sheriff]

I had a horrible thing happen to one of Skye's babies today. She had them outside and I noticed a commotion so I went out there. One of Skyes babies had gotten tangled in a piece of the mesh that is under the sod. In areas where the sod has died the mesh is showing. I have been meaning to crawl around out there and cut it all out but have just put it off. My procrastination cost that baby dearly. The mesh was wrapped so tightly around one toe, and he had struggled so much, that it was cut all the way around to the bone and bleeding profusely. The top of the mesh was wrapped very tight around his foot and the entire foot was swollen. I couldn't get it loose so I had to put him back down and run in the house for my little cuticle scissors. I was able to cut the mesh and get him free. I rushed him in the house and stopped the bleeding with a styptic pencil and direct pressure on the toe. The swelling starting going down in the foot as soon and the mesh was cut off but it still looked bad. I was tempted to just amputate that toe but decided to clean and dress it and see what happens tomorrow. He was walking around on it but took lots of rests and naps. He lost a lot of blood for a day old.

I felt horrible and got myself a big pair of scissors and crawled around the yard cutting and tearing out all the mesh I could see. I spent most of my day out in the chicken yard filling waterers and feeders for all the mamas and babies and cleaning the layer coop. I had to build a ramp from the top of the little coop so that Miss Polaris and her babies can come and go to their coop area. I am going to just open it up tomorrow and see what happens. It is just too hot for them to stay in those little coops all day. Skye and her babies didn't go in until bedtime. They were out all day, usually in a shady place digging. Hopefully all the groups have bonded and they know who Mama is so it is not a blood bath out there. They work it out on the uninhabited area of Iceland so they can work it out here!