Icelandic Chickens

[NellaBean]

Both boys

 

[Jake Levi]

Hi Mary

No more chicks this year, moving west in Sept if all goes right, so want them all big enough to travel well. So Feb hatch on The Contessa is just over five mos, not bad, considering all the upheavals that she has had. Oct should be an interesting month in the new place. I think these will be part of an omelot.

Your pullet that isnt Lukka is a beauty, what do you call that soft beige color? I have 3 with different amounts of that, one with a lot, and a slightly dark head and cape, one with half that and half blue, and one with darker beige and white chest and topknot.

 

[The Sheriff]

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I call that color peach for lack of anything that describes it better. I can't believe you are eating your first Icelandic egg. Isn't that against the law?

 

[AK Michelle]

After candling last night there are 7 eggs heading towards lockdown.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Michelle.........2 mysteries are both boys. Debbie Harry can just be Debbie - she's a pullet.

 

[AK Michelle]

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I figured they both were, they are nearly impossible to photograph cause they are so friendly I can't get far enough away

Thanks for the input, neither on acts particularly roo-ish, and their siblings look and act so definitely roo-ish that it made me wonder if maybe I was wrong and they were somehow hens.

 

[LarryPQ]

So Mahonri is always mentioning what good flyers the Icelandics are. I agree, and will add that they like high spaces more than my other birds.

ANYWHOO, one of the three-weekers escaped from the brooder and was impossible for me to catch or shoo into a carrier. Finally I had to inlist the kids and the DH to help herd the little bugger. Freaked out by said herding, the chick ran into a pile of "chicken junk" and climbed up an old ladder I sometimes use as a roost. The DH went to grab it, but it flew the opposite direction---and I snatched it out of the air, left-handed, ninja-style!

My DH said, "WOW. I can't believe you caught that."

I am not sure why he was surprised. My chick-fu is stronger than his chick-fu.

 

[snaphu]

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I hatched eggs from a friend of mine who owns some icelandic roosters... Wound up with the only chick hatching to turn out to be a Buff brahma/Icelandic chick. Name? SuperChicken.

 

[kathyinmo]

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AND, very very soon you will be collecting your very own Icelandic eggs!