Mary is the God-Mother to a huge number of Icelandics and their grateful owners. And Kathy and Kim and others are following close in her footsteps ! May their tribe increase !
I feel entirely blessed with mine, I have 3 beautiful roos already not even counting the half of the 21, a regal started pullet and two six week olds, so I have more now then what Mary started with just in the started ones !! Life is good
As of right now, I have one pair, in a couple months going to an Amish friend who works at my feed store, and a trio going to a friend who is on the S&R team who is active in 4H, and has two young teen sons who are starting 4H chickens and have long been in 4H dog obedience, there will be a couple others I am sure. So far these five will go to preservation minded folks, as any I put out will be. A lady who visits on the list from further south is getting a pair too, so by fall the ones I have here will have spread out a bit more, I will winter at least six roos, hoping for at least one to have feathered shanks. I will have two crested ones.
A list member in Indiana might have some other feather shanked ones I can trade with. Or buy. Worth the gas to get the trait into the flock. Anything to help the winter hardiness. Cant hurt them. If concentrated it could certainly help.
As I said, life is good and better with Icelandics.
Pouring rain out, my corn is happy too !
This is going to be a great year for Icelandics in America
