Mary, I sent you an e-mail..hope it helps.
Good night all~
Good night all~
Icelandic Chickens
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Mary your Emily is a keeper, you are blessed.
Life is good and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats. !
Using the mouse left click on the beginning on the text/pic, holding it down scroll on down through all that you want to copy, this should highlight it all, if its not highlighted its not copied. THen release the left click. Place your cursor in the middle of the now highlighted tex and right click it, you should get a dropdown menu and you want to click the copy item. Its then copied into your computer, then come to here, open up a message, put your finger on the right click and again a dropdown menu should give you some options, choose the paste and it should copy your text here.
It goes faster then it reads.
Mary your Emily is a keeper, you are blessed.
Life is good and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats. !
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Here's chickielady's email she wanted to post:
The Icelandic chickens are fascinating, aren't they? I, too, have noticed the awkward tail positioning of young Icelandic males. In all cases with my flock during the past 3 years, the males outgrow this peculiar phase, or possibly as you stated, they grow into their tails. This will likely prove the case with your birds. With their lively ways, I sometimes wonder if the tail positioning isn't some sort of juvenile behavior typical for the breed. The Icelandics in this country are rather closely bred, so wry tails are certainly something to worry about. My advice would be to let your Icelandic youngsters grow another 2 or 3 months before worrying too much. Also, to avoid excessive inbreeding, always try to breed from multiple males each year.
Best wishes,
Ed
The Icelandic chickens are fascinating, aren't they? I, too, have noticed the awkward tail positioning of young Icelandic males. In all cases with my flock during the past 3 years, the males outgrow this peculiar phase, or possibly as you stated, they grow into their tails. This will likely prove the case with your birds. With their lively ways, I sometimes wonder if the tail positioning isn't some sort of juvenile behavior typical for the breed. The Icelandics in this country are rather closely bred, so wry tails are certainly something to worry about. My advice would be to let your Icelandic youngsters grow another 2 or 3 months before worrying too much. Also, to avoid excessive inbreeding, always try to breed from multiple males each year.
Best wishes,
Ed
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OK, like copy/paste a phot..or when I want to delete stuff?
Duh..I am computer challenged!
Anyways, Mary did it for me!
OK, like copy/paste a phot..or when I want to delete stuff?
Duh..I am computer challenged!
Anyways, Mary did it for me!
Exactly, copy and paste. Just like for the photos.
Dont feel bad about being computer challenged, the world is full of folks like us. I are one.
I keep warning about our small genetic base, and to not pollute it but to study it and to build numbers while we learn more about them. We do have a very unknown breed here. A breed, not a landrace. It has all of the hallmarks of a breed. Including different genetics then modern chickens. What the ultimate determination will be I dont know, but I advocate growing out every single one and evaluating them carefully before rehoming any. I am going to try to but I know that it will be difficult to do. But muliti sires is a given, and keeping as many different hens as I can.
Cold, foggy and damp morning here in Cusick, actually its called Ruby but its in Cusick mail delivery area. Cusick is about 16 miles south of here. And 16 miles north is Ione. Pics coming .
Life is good and better with Icelandic CHickens and Pack Goats !
Dont feel bad about being computer challenged, the world is full of folks like us. I are one.
I keep warning about our small genetic base, and to not pollute it but to study it and to build numbers while we learn more about them. We do have a very unknown breed here. A breed, not a landrace. It has all of the hallmarks of a breed. Including different genetics then modern chickens. What the ultimate determination will be I dont know, but I advocate growing out every single one and evaluating them carefully before rehoming any. I am going to try to but I know that it will be difficult to do. But muliti sires is a given, and keeping as many different hens as I can.
Cold, foggy and damp morning here in Cusick, actually its called Ruby but its in Cusick mail delivery area. Cusick is about 16 miles south of here. And 16 miles north is Ione. Pics coming .
Life is good and better with Icelandic CHickens and Pack Goats !
Jake, That is great news ...... pictures coming !
I can hardly wait!
Cold and damp there? Isn't it always that way there? Chilly and damp here today, too. Only 63 right now. Not really raining, but an occasional little shower is keeping the ground a bit wet. I don't like it like this, as I have to keep the feed inside and the chickens are used to it being outside and they act like they can't find it.
Forecast shows it will be like this for the next 3 days. YUK...
Cold and damp there? Isn't it always that way there? Chilly and damp here today, too. Only 63 right now. Not really raining, but an occasional little shower is keeping the ground a bit wet. I don't like it like this, as I have to keep the feed inside and the chickens are used to it being outside and they act like they can't find it.
When I get some Icelandic hatching eggs from Hillbillyhen, and maybe The Warden too. My plan is keep all the pullets from one batch, and keep 4 roos from other batch to keep genetics strong, and prevent defects from happening. What do you experts think? Does that sounds like a good plan? Thanks.
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Good morning all! It has been beautiful here. ~63 in the morning, up to ~98 in the afternoons.
Shaner finally fixed the cover on my run (it was still broken from the monsoons). So Buffy the escaping Icelandic has officially been twarted!! Not a moment too soon! On Friday she had been caputured by my crazy neighbor, and was a few minutes away from being tossed in with her flock when I rescued her.
Shaner finally fixed the cover on my run (it was still broken from the monsoons). So Buffy the escaping Icelandic has officially been twarted!! Not a moment too soon! On Friday she had been caputured by my crazy neighbor, and was a few minutes away from being tossed in with her flock when I rescued her.
Farmer it doesnt matter a whole lot right now which hatch that they come from, they are all descended from two original importers so by now the genes are pretty uniform.
From here on out it is cautious selection, starting with only hardiness, and the other traits with survival value, of which egg production is one along with maternal ability and ranging ability. Obvious defaults such as deformities in body or feathering need to be culled and probably the roos also.
I just rehomed a particularly beautiful dominant white splash, as he is a tad rougher with younger roos and the pullets, I hear that he is getting out of that being the dominant roo there, my two oldest roos are excellent flock masters, call warnings, call out when there is food available, and generally are guardians over the flock, a roo that is just pretty but doesnt do all this and more isnt a keeper to me. I have the 2 older ones, Blau and Ici and a june hatch Bjorn who are all of this and more, AND they are handsome. Alright, Blau is gorgeous. So is Ici
The pullets are a cross section, most of the colors, I dont have a splash white, or white hen, have several that were gold chicks, became white and then deepened to peach or wheaten, several with blue undercoats. I have a couple former chipmunks , one black with gold penciled lacing on her cape, a blue with the same, but no whites. More then half of this flock has crests, one has a SC the rest RCs. But I have read of other traits that I havent seen in mine yet, so will be looking for pairs or trios of them next year.
To me its all a waiting and see what we have time, probably still doing it ten years from now. Meanwhile will be breeding mine and selecting those who show strong survival traits to keep on breeding, that more then color. Color can always be added and if we keep multi sires we are almost guaranteed to have excellent color in our flocks.
So, off my pulpit, for now. We have a great thing with these.
Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats.
From here on out it is cautious selection, starting with only hardiness, and the other traits with survival value, of which egg production is one along with maternal ability and ranging ability. Obvious defaults such as deformities in body or feathering need to be culled and probably the roos also.
I just rehomed a particularly beautiful dominant white splash, as he is a tad rougher with younger roos and the pullets, I hear that he is getting out of that being the dominant roo there, my two oldest roos are excellent flock masters, call warnings, call out when there is food available, and generally are guardians over the flock, a roo that is just pretty but doesnt do all this and more isnt a keeper to me. I have the 2 older ones, Blau and Ici and a june hatch Bjorn who are all of this and more, AND they are handsome. Alright, Blau is gorgeous. So is Ici
The pullets are a cross section, most of the colors, I dont have a splash white, or white hen, have several that were gold chicks, became white and then deepened to peach or wheaten, several with blue undercoats. I have a couple former chipmunks , one black with gold penciled lacing on her cape, a blue with the same, but no whites. More then half of this flock has crests, one has a SC the rest RCs. But I have read of other traits that I havent seen in mine yet, so will be looking for pairs or trios of them next year.
To me its all a waiting and see what we have time, probably still doing it ten years from now. Meanwhile will be breeding mine and selecting those who show strong survival traits to keep on breeding, that more then color. Color can always be added and if we keep multi sires we are almost guaranteed to have excellent color in our flocks.
So, off my pulpit, for now. We have a great thing with these.
Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats.
So where is everybody? Is it sun shining all over the country except here ?? Drizzle here. 40s, and wet,
Life is good ! And better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !
Life is good ! And better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !
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