Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

Alice Bell and Rusty look great, Mary! I love those broody and baby pictures! Awww, aren't they just the sweetest things ever!

 

[The Sheriff]

Thanks Kathy I will take that as a big compliment coming from you!

Oh, I forgot to mention, I have a floor broody in the Icelandic coop!

x3 days on one egg!

If she is still there tomorrow, I am putting her in a nestbox with the eggs from my incubator! I think almost all of them are due about the same time. Maybe one or two are earlier. I'll candle them and decide.

 

[kathyinmo]

Those broodies are so cute, and so sweet ...............
BECAUSE THEY ARE YOURS AND NOT MINE!

I think you are on your way to having about 20 broodies at a time. Just wait and see ..... oh, yeah, you are gonna love it.

 

[The Sheriff]

Well aren't you just the meanest thing tonight! I can't have 20 broodies because I only have 19 Icelandic hens and four of those have babies right now and one is broody in the floor! That only adds up to a possible 15 broodies.

 

[Jake Levi]

Kathy, I do like your ghetto coops, a great design to copy !!!

I think I am really getting biased towards those peach and peach-blue pullets, they are exquisette, several of mine have a slightly darker wheaten/orange to them, I have a nice range of colors,

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the 3 roos I am keeping got the full range, Bjorn is a chipmunk who did well, brown base with both gold and red mixing with some irridesence and a sweeping dark tail, Isison with the white painted with orange and gold, and Blau with his orange and blue mix, Isison has a SC and Blau and Bjorn have rose combs and crests.

I am really looking forward to broodies next spring, that to me is one of the really great fun parts of having chickens. The pics you Ladies have been sharing are really great. I have two pullets who I am thinking are going to be looking like Lukkas' daughters, or granddaughters. Wouldnt THAT be great !!

So keep those broodie pics coming Ladies

BTW, I dont remember if I mentioned, I am getting an English Shepherd , a son of a female I gave to a breeder in Wisc, he is used to chickens and sheep, and will be our home guard and watchdog, and go hiking with the goats and I, they have a wonderful temperament around livestock, adopt them as their own, and are protective over them. My favorite farm dogs.

Life is good, and with Icelandics and Goats Better !

 

[Happy Chooks]

on all the babies hatching! They are all adorable!

That picture doesn't do Rusty justice - she's even more gorgeous in person. And Alice Bell is stunning, gotta love that crisp barring.

My BR girl (that my son named Dusty) is growing rapidly now and she's looking less of that gangly stage. She was the tiniest thing when I brought her home and now she's the same size as the 5 1/2 month old barnevelder pullets.

Olive (the olive egger - again, named by my kids) is still large as heck, but regal in her movement. She's gonna crank out some big honkin' eggs and make Mary sorry she gave her up.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I can hardly wait to see those big honkin' eggs too!

Funny how sometimes there is a tiny one in the bunch that seems to catch up later, isn't it? My blue English Orp rooster was very very tiny! Not little ..... TINY! Well, at about 5 months old I moved him into a different pen with younger birds and he then thrived and grew!

 

[The Sheriff]

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[kathyinmo]

 

[The Sheriff]

You need some Kathy!