Icelandic Chickens

[greatergraceoffbg]

Mary I once had neighbors like that... my advice PRAY that God bless them, give you patience, and keep them far far away!I will pray it for you! my icelandics are sooooooooooo much fun I just cannot thank you enough. The young Interns here have special challenges and taking care of the Icelandics has become their favorite thing to do! Andy

 

[Michael_H]

Wow,some people just amaze me,how they could care less for anothers property....A thought comes to mind,livestock guardian dogs,,Marremma's,perhaps...My grandfather used to use an bb gun pistol,,not a powerful one,I don't believe,,more to just scare them....

Love the place Mary,,and Good Luck......

 

[joeyg4583]

Or Great Pyranees perhaps?

 

[kathyinmo]

Hope things are better today, Mary. I sympathize with you ..... I would hate to have a neighbor like that. Honestly, I would shoot the dog on site. I wouldn't even think twice about it. Then, I would bury it and move on. If the neighbor has no idea the dog is gone a stray anyway, it would probably be days before missing it.

Anyway, pictures of the chicks hatched yesterday...
1 black, 2 oreo, 1 light, 1 black body with auburn head.

 

[NotAFarm]

Wow, Kathy, very nice pics. You've got quite the variety there. Did you check their wings and make notes? I'd be so happy to hear that you can feather sex them!

Seinna, The Other Mary

 

[The Sheriff]

Nice babies Kathy! I picked up three more today too. I took back the ones Kelly hatched on New Year's Day.

The joke will probably be on me as she has probably already put the Rooster jinx on them. I also took back the bantam cochins and a couple of olive eggers she hatched. She is obviously weak from being sick for so long. She hardly put up a fight at all!

My brooder is full! Kelly's two olive eggers are real bruisers compared to the little cochins. My babies immediately tried to get under them like they were their long lost mothers! It was so cute. They are all huddled together under one heat lamp even though the brooder has two.

Now I just have to do a major rooster purge!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hi everyone!

Talkin about me behind my back, eh?

I'm doing better. Unfortunately for me the antibiotic had the lovely side effect of vomiting and diarrea. Thank goodness the Dr also gave me anti naseau pills when he gave me the antibiotic! It was the sickest I have been in a very long time. But on the plus side, I'm down 9 pounds.

Yep, Mary took a bunch of chicks from me today. I've got a lot on my plate right now and needed to simplify things a bit. I'm so very thankful to her for helping me out.

I'm sad that I gave up the Icelandics, but I know where I can get more later.

DH was surprisingly mad that I got rid of the chicks, that one shocked me.

Then he asked, you kept all females, right?

No Mary, I didn't put a roo curse on them. But I will be interested to hear how many males/females you end up with out of them. The bantams are too cute, but I just fear they won't do well here. I'll probably kick myself when you have a buttload of broodies and I don't!

 

[The Sheriff]

Quote:
Do roos go broody?

LOL My husband was surprising upset too! Nah, just kidding. He loves 'em. He even went to down to see them in the brooder and say "Hi BeeBees" in the high pitched shriek that makes them run in circles.

 

[Mahonri]

My little icelandics are fiesty. I feel like kathy. I'm pretty sure I have 7 but some of them look so close to a clean faced Am. I'm not sure?! 3 blondies, 4 darks.... I think....

I've got to make them a bigger brooder; the box they are in now is getting a tad cramped.

Not even two weeks old and they are FLYING on top of the waterer that is up on an old book.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I always thought of Icelandic Chickens as ugly

UNTIL NOW!

They're truly beautiful!