Icelandic Chickens

[LarryPQ]

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I get stung regularly. This year I found 4 Barks' in the house.

I got stung by a Bark's when I was 16, probably 10-12 times. It was under my pillow when I got home from work (Coldstone).

6 times on one forearm, 4-6 on the other. A half a bottle of children's benadryl later, I was twitching on the couch, wondering how I was going to make ice cream the next morning.

Now I just keep those meltaway doses in my purse and fridge.

 

[LarryPQ]

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I have Mary's Icelandic chicks due on the 12th--so expect a call around the 9th

 

[cherylcohen]

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The link doesn't work.

oops sorry it's corrected now, thanks

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6569979#p6569979

 

[Jake Levi]

Michelle your turkey looks like a Narragansett, another old breed. My favorite has been the Wishard which is a strain of Old Heritage Bronze that flys and is a great free ranger. A tad smaller then the heritage bronze. But the Narragansett is also a very good homestead turkey , raises its' own chicks, grows well and is beautiful to look at, I think they would work well with emus. There are about fifteen other strains and color varieties. Or more in variations on the colors. I think that the American Poultry Standard lists 13 colors, all domestic varities of the Wild Eastern Turkey.

 

[BHep]

I have Murray McMurray Hatchery on my FaceBook page. They put out a pole today "would you like to raise Icelanic Chickens?" with articles etc. Wonder if they will be selling them ???

 

[LarryPQ]

Then we won't be cool anymore *sniff*


JUUUUUST KIDDING!!!!

 

[phasianidae]

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I wouldnt doubt it, what articles did they have? Could you post a link? ETA never mind I found it.

 

[NotAFarm]

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I'm glad I have the real thing....that I was fortunate enough to get them from Mary last year. I can only imagine how the Icelandics will be mixed-up and messed-up once they are "mass marketed". I suppose it was bound to happen, whenever someone can make money on something, they will find a way to. So sad.

It will be more important than ever to keep our bloodlines pure.




On a brighter note, here are a few pics of the three chicks from Asta's eggs that my friend's broody Gold Laced Wyandotte hatched.

A shot of the their colors and markings:

An upright, frontal view (thinking there could be two boys there):

Once they got a little braver, they came a bit closer for this one (once again with the same two leading the way):

 

[Barrdwing]

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Jumping in here--I lived in the desert down in Southern California for eight years, and did a lot of camping in the Anza-Borrego area, so I got to know the scorpions. I've never been stung, but generally speaking, in the Southwest, the smaller the scorpion species, the nastier the venom. The little bark scorpion has the worst venom of any species found in the US; extremely painful, really not something you want to get nailed by, and I'm sure glad Mahonri's son is OK. There is a petite species in the Anza desert locally called the sand scorpion, but from the rangers' descriptions of its venom I think it must be a paler variety of the bark scorpion. By contrast, the other species of scorpion I saw a lot of (aarrgh) is the Arizona hairy scorpion, which gets to be 5-7 inches long. That's freakin' huge, but the venom is about like a wasp sting. I once discovered a pregnant six-inch-long specimen in my house, and I am SO glad I found her before she had her thirty-odd kids! "Uh-uh, ma'am, this is not the maternal ward, outside with you, shoo!"

 

[NotAFarm]

Barrd, Thanks for the info! Living up here in Illinois, scorpions have not been a problem....

..but it's always good to know these things since a trip to the Grand Canyon is on our Bucket List!