Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

While I was out to get Anna's pic, I grabbed a hand full of dried mealworms for the juvies (4 weeks old today and tomorrow). Here is a pic of them free ranging in the chicken yard with Chickie Mama before I called them:

Here they are practicing their "Triangle Formation" while eating their treats (just ignore that Java hogging the top spot!):

 

[kathyinmo]

LOVE the pictures! Anna is gonna be so happy to have those babies! She looks determined!

 

[Jake Levi]

Anna is a beauty !

Is that a small dog crate that she is in?

 

[The Sheriff]

Forget about the birds. I am jealous of the fence!

 

[NotAFarm]

Is that a small dog crate that she is in?



No.....

...it's the top part of a cat litterbox. I got it at a garage sale for $3 for the two feral rescue barn cats I adopted in March. They didn't want to go into it with the top on so I took it off. When Anna went broody here

I needed to move her out of the Ice House into private quarters. I moved her into a separate small coop that didn't have a nest box. I built a base of 4x4 pieces, put the nest from the Ice House nest box in it with golf balls she had been sitting on, put her on the nest and covered her with the top of the cat litterbox. She stuck on the golf balls, so exchanged the eggs I had started in the incubator with her golf balls and voila.........everybody's happy!!

Oh, except Ari who carried on for a while cuz he thought I did "something" to her, but he can hear her from where she is so I think now he knows she's okay.

I did use an extra large dog airline crate for my Chickie Mama.......but she still has it with her 11 chicks, so had to come up with new digs for Anna. Never had more than one before.......will be needing to come with a plan for that because look at my SLW who just turned a year old........

.....But I still don't have as many broodies as Kathy does.........

 

[kathyinmo]

LOOK! QUICK! We have sunshine today! I am sure it won't last. Dreary, rainy days for over a week and more forecasted.

OK...... Don't you DARE laugh!
I have a pen of grow outs. In this pen I have a few Easter Eggers, New Hampshires, Icelandics, etc. The EEs all looked the same at hatch (dark). NOW, I have this one chick that I am confused about. It is different colors (and I know EEs can be all kinds of colors). Is this an Icelandic or an Easter Egger? The other Easter Eggers all have muffs. This one does not. First picture are confirmed Easter Eggers. I know I can wait until they are grown more to know, but maybe you can tell me now.

 

[thebirdguy]

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We are forecasted to have rain and SNOW tonight.. The joys of spring in Idaho!! At least your trees have leaves on them...

On the EE or Icelandic... just a question.. do the Icelandics have dark colored legs like this one??

 

[phasianidae]

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Its an Easter Egger. Does it have a pea comb?

 

[NotAFarm]

Kathy, I had an EE that was colored ALOT like yours. She did have muffs/beard though. I'm thinking EE!!

 

[kathyinmo]

I was thinking EE, too. Because she has no muffs, I was confused and started wondering.