Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

First debut!

 

[The Sheriff]

Oh so pretty!

Congrats for real!

 

[kathyinmo]

Just got home a few minutes ago. OMG..... WARNING ...... Don't ever ride with me and Brittney on a long trip. We are a pitiful pair at directions. I can hardly see the map to read it (next time I will take my lighted head strap magnifier), and she can't even read a map!

 

[drumstick diva]

Hmmm good chocolate - nice score Kathy

 

[kathyinmo]

At the Delaware Club table at Crossroads:
Me and Daron in the background.
joletabey (Beth) and my daughter, Brittney, in the front.

Brittney is holding Carmen (as in Carmen San Diego fame). She just earned a name for herself. This is how our trip started....
I was suppose to take a BCMarans and a Wheaten Ameraucana with me, for a friend. At 4:30AM I went to the layers coop to pick them up. There is a light in there..... ONE measly little light..... I thought I had one of the wheaties. But, alas, I had one of my Easter Eggers. About 7AM, in the car, I turned around and noticed. OMG, I have an Easter Egger, not a Wheaten! Brittney kept her with her at the Del table, and we brought her back home. Oh, yes, I have lots of stories.

 

[RustyHen]

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Very pretty!

first ones I have ever seen

 

[RustyHen]

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Carmen is going to have quite a story of her own to tell her coop mates

 

[NotAFarm]

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Very nice, Kathy! I'm glad you made it home safely.......even if you took longer than planned!!

 

[NotAFarm]

Daron, It sounds like quite the adventure you had, and will be having in the future, with the diverse flock you got!! I'm glad I got to meet you and look forward to seeing the pictures you took at Crossroads!!

I would recommend putting all the Icelandic roosters together in their own pen and keeping the 3 hens separate until next spring. With only the three girls, they will be overwhelmed with so many boys. By spring, you can choose which rooster to put in with the girls and raise chicks from that group. Then you could remove that rooster and (after a waiting for the hens to raise those chicks) trade the rooster for a different one. Keep track of which chicks are from the first rooster and breed the pullets resulting from the first breeding to a different rooster. There seemed to be two dominate patterns to the roosters that Jim had in the raffle, so maybe you will be able to cull those down to the best (meaning nicest personality among similiarly colored guys) couple by spring. For example: Breed one of raffle roos to the hens you get from Jake's friend. Let them brood the eggs and remove raffle rooster #1, when the chicks are weaned, place raffle rooster number two with them. Let them brood again. The pullets resulting from the two raffle roos could be bred to one of the roos from Jake's friend. You will, of course, have a bunch more roos from those breedings. You probably won't be able to keep them all.....therein lies the problem all of us have......what to do with so many extra boys. Each of us has to figure that one out for ourselves.....

 

[Happy Chooks]

Farmerboy - Congrats on the score! Lemon cuckoo's too, wow! I agree on keeping the Icelandic roosters penned together until you can determine your keepers.

Chickielady - on the plus side, when you're done with the house, the little blue building will make a great coop!

Kathy - OMG, gorgeous!!!!!! Are they LF? (they look it) Congrats again! I was going to ask you if that was Brittany, she looks like you. Quite a trip for the EE.