Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

Wow, Mary, Audun walks exactly like his dad!! He too is a great guardian and provider to his girls.

It's raining tonight but we may have some snow tomorrow. I'm just glad that most of the snow cover has melted so new snow should melt quickly with the forecasts of day temps above freezing for the next week. I can't wait to be able to join the ranks of "flock expanders"!

Where's Lynn with an update on the eggs he got from Kathy and me?

 

[greatergraceoffbg]

Wow that was a great little video Mary, I really enjoyed that!

Hi Miss Kathy! how is everyone tonight?

Andy

 

[kathyinmo]

Hi Andy! Hope all is well with you!
I am just so happy to have my computer back!

I am looking around to see what I can take a picture of and post. I am hatching right now, but no Icelandics in this group.

Happy to report that I got 2 Icelandic eggs today!

 

[The Sheriff]

Ok, this one cracks me up. I was just out chillin' with my peeps in the little chicken yard when something catches my eye. It is Stella and she is leaving town! If you have followed this from the beginning, you may remember that Stella is the Icelandic/EE cross who hopped over my fence a couple of years ago and got me started on this fun journey. She's gypsy, that girl. Take note of the neighbor's dogs barking in the background!

 

[kathyinmo]

It won't let me play the video. It says, "This video is private."

 

[The Sheriff]

Oops, I fixed it. Please try again.

 

[kathyinmo]

Oh, that is too funny! Where did she think she was going anyway? Surely she must have realized she forgot to pack her bags.
Gypsy for sure!

 

[The Sheriff]

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I don't know where she thought she was going, but she was coming from the front of the house, no where near the free range area. As she was walking down the road a neighbor came by walking her dogs. She offered to tie them to the fence and help me get Stella back in the yard. I just had to open the gate into the pasture and she came right in. I shudder to think what might have happened had I not seen her and gotten her back in. I am going down to the barn to grab her off the roost and clip her wings. Oh, the wander lust!

 

[kathyinmo]

Well she sure looked like she knew what she was doing .... walking proudly down the road with purpose, something on her mind. Crazy girl!

 

[greatergraceoffbg]

LOL now thats what I like about chickens, they have a mind of their own, Stella was going Gypsy for sure! Have any of you ever noticed a difference in shape of the baby Icelandics from one line to another? This may sound wierd or it could be my imagination, but my first Lyle Chicks and their offspring were and are smaller, they grow slower and as soon as I put them in the brooder they slink down like wild quail and literally lay forward heads outstretched and still as a log. They are less downy, they are more aloof as they grow. Kathy your babies were more flufffy, fatter, very unaffected by any movement or human presence, focused on eating from moment one. Mary, the first ones I hatched from your eggs were also larger, more immediately active etc. Has anyone else made note of this difference?

Andy In Fredericksburg