Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

How soon can you tell if they will have a crest?

Shawn, How are your other Icelandic chicks doing? Pictures?

 

[thebirdguy]

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They are doing great Kathy!! Wish there were 20 more but they are a wonderful start to the Idaho Icelandic Flock!! The black one still has hairy legs.. the chipmunk must be a full brother to Speedy and the two browns are looking great! Here's some pictures...

Four icelandics... and a couple of pheasants... and some marans...

 

[LarryPQ]

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Long story short: we wanted a true dual purpose bird (for backyard chicken owners) that had the look of the Bloomehones (Swedish Flower Hens). We like pretty chickens... BUT (and here is the big but) they have to be desert hardy. The big meat birds and dual purpose breeds just friggityfreakin keel over once it hits 100 degrees. NOT useful when it is over 110 degrees for two months, and often over 115 degrees. Baked chicken.

So we started with the "downtown Phoenix ghetto birds that aren't pidgeons" and have been improving their size and temperment. Unsurprisingly, the ghetto birds often come from meaner stock, and are not heavy-bodied.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I hope Mary doesn't kill me for this, but she's had a really bad day, and she sure could use some good thoughts. She had an accident with one of the emu's and she's upset about it. It's still alive, but not sure if it will make it.

I know I've been there with the should'a and could'a thoughts before. It's not your fault Mary.

 

[tazcat70]

Mary, I hope the little emu makes it. We have all done something that has caused hurt to things we love. I know that there is no way that you would have ever done anything to hurt them on purpose. Please know that my thoughts are with you.

 

[Jake Levi]

Laree so how did you get those ghetto games so pretty ? Thats a very pretty pattern that they have.

I am on the other extreme from you, I want a northland hardy bird, and expect that the Icelandic is it,

Mary, its always hard when something happens to one of our critters, a long time ago, when I was crying over a dead calf a wise neighbor told me that if we have livestock, sometimes we will lose some and often things will happen to them, this is an unwritten law, and the only alternative is in not having them at all, which is just denying life, I have kept that in mind many times when things have gone wrong. But the alternative is not having critters, so I take and endure the bad to enjoy the good. In the long run the blessings outweigh the curses.

Stay your course, blessings will come too.

 

[thebirdguy]

Well, we are going to the hospital to have a baby tonight!! She's not due till June 23rd but they are going to do a C-section in about 2 hours.. Please keep us in your prayers!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Wow, a people baby!

Congrats and good luck! Is there a problem, why are they taking the baby so early?

 

[NotAFarm]

Shawn, Prayers going out to you and your wife for a safe delivery and healthy girl.

 

[tazcat70]

Good luck Shawn!