Icelandic Chickens

[Happy Chooks]

Oh Mary, I hope the little one is okay! Poor baby!

for a good update in the morning.

 

[The Sheriff]

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OMG! What is "GORGEOUS" in Icelandic? She is a raving beauty!

We had a whole lotta' this before she was all that and a bag of chips! You can't ever disqualify and Icelandic girl from a beauty pageant. Some just take their sweet time getting there!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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OMG! What is "GORGEOUS" in Icelandic? She is a raving beauty!

We had a whole lotta' this before she was all that and a bag of chips! You can't ever disqualify and Icelandic girl from a beauty pageant. Some just take their sweet time getting there!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_icelandicgirl-5.jpg

Ha! She looked like a mullet girl before!

 

[The Sheriff]

Note to Jake. Buy a couple of these tubs. Throwing each other out of the tub keeps them occupied for hours! If you haven't met them yet, this is Laverne and Shirley, the newest Fainting goats we added to the herd.

 

[The Sheriff]

Have a good night everyone. I am off to a shower and bed! But not before adding another pic of my big boy.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Oh, my sweet sweet Kola! I love this girl so much. She is such a good good girl.

She comes outside with me to do chores, and she comes back into the garage when I go in. Oh, I so wish you all could know this lovely bird. She is simply wonderful. OH, and eggs! She has laid 5 eggs in a week, even after going through the trauma of surgery!

I take off her bandages every couple days and redress them. I pack in Neosporin each time. As I understand it, and I could be wrong, the infection is a big mass (a plug of sorts) like a hunk of cheese. I did use a scalpel and cut her foot open. The foot which looked the worst is doing better than the other foot. I was able to get a plug of gunk out of that one. The other foot, it seems to me, was just not "ripe," yet. You know what I mean? I really think it has to be ripe (for lack of a better term here) before attempting to remove it.

 

[Mahonri]

He looks like the China games in the neighborhood to the south... you could name him "China" ?

 

[kathyinmo]

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I like both of those boys. It is hard to decide who to keep when they are ALL so beautiful, isn't it! Glad you are keeping them both.

Romeo lives in the bachelor's pad (12 roosters in 3 adjoining opened pens)and he terrorizes all the other boys, though he (and the other Icelandic boy) is the smallest in there! NO ONE messes with Romeo! He jumps the gate (tiny space INSIDE the breeder barn) and tries to get out quite regularly, but ends up in the hallway instead. He is just so darn "eager" to share his love with every chicken he meets!

He "chatters" constantly. REALLY, he does! I think he has ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), or at least the "hyperactivity" portion. Anyway, he wears me out just watching him!

I was thinking I might keep one of the crested boys from the chicks I have, and replace Romeo. Still thinking about it though ........

 

[AK Michelle]

Mary I agree, you can't judge these guys till they have all their adult feathers. I was able to get a great pic of Kelinn. He was the one I used to call Mullet-head. No more gangly teenager, just look at those colors.

Can you see - he even has purple in his wings.

 

[kathyinmo]

OH, Michelle! Those pictures are just beautiful! He is a gorgeous boy, for sure!