Icelandic Chickens

[Chickielady]

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Perhaps. Blondes do have more fun.

Most times anyways

 

[Chickielady]

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oh, I just gave away a flock of Delies.SQ and no room for them, and I have had it with white birds..but now I got these Turkeys!!
They are so cute, so talkative, they imprint ya know, and follow me around.
Now the Toms are gobbling..if we yell: DINNER TIME!
You can hear the toms gobbling..I think they object to the noise.
Mary!!
Adorable Dime Store Diva!!

 

[kathyinmo]

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If you had a flock of show quality Delawares you would be one of the very very few in the United States. Maybe even the only one, as far as I know. I would enjoy seeing pictures of those.

 

[kathyinmo]

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WOOOO HOOOO, Diva! She is gonna earn LOTS of treats all decked out like that!

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey Mary ..... I was just thinkin' about Barn Girl. How is she doing? Bumblefoot all healed? I was looking at Kola today and one foot is back to normal, but the other one is still a bit inflamed looking.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Love the story of Diana!

And especially the village idiots.

BTW.........Jack does NOT like his saddle. Ears back = very bad. But I guess Michael learned about that.

 

[BoldogKennel]

Thanks for the reply wyan-zen... I do appreciate it.

I breed performance dogs. As most people know, "performance" animals/fowl/fish what have you, rarely look like their show counterparts... I accept that Icelandic chickens are a "performance" bird, and have not been bred to a standard "anything" (which was why I was so confused by Jake saying he was going to have to select his stock very carefully???) and have survived with minimal human interference (though I'm a bit confused as to why the people of Iceland would ignore their chickens any more than anyone else?) Back to performance animals: tons of people cannot identify my breed when they are only familiar with show specimens... however, all dogs look similar and actually look more alike (as a group) than a litter of their show counterparts.

"Trust"ing the other guy is not a great foundation when it comes to animal breeding and buying. I think we all know that. Obviously BYC is a "community" and most people on here know and trust each other, and that's peachy, I'm on another board where I fearlessly purchase fowl from "strangers" who I have only met on the internet. Trust is great when you are speaking of dealing with one person to another. But "blind trust" is how some pretty silly myths have gotten started about animals! Who was the first person to say "Dobermans brains swell!" and look at all the idiots who "trusted" that advice and passed on the myth. Or "St. Bernard's are great with kids"... when this was a breed the American Medical Association actually advocated banning back in the '70's due to the number of children killed by the breed. Trust is one thing - but I feel "blind faith" is only for a certain type of person... and that would not be me.

I understand at this point I will not be getting the information I requested on this forum, and that's cool, no hard feelings, it is either available or it is not. I will continue to seek. If, however, someone DOES come across the information I seek, and would like to PM me with it, I certainly would appreciate it! : )

*Reference in English regarding DNA differences between "Icelandic" chickens and other chickens
* Information on why other Icelandic breeds breed true to type (dogs, horses, etc enough to have standards, yet a supposedly inbred population of chickens breed as if scatterbred. This information could be very important for those dealing with breeds with few members left in breeding populations.
Thanks!

 

[Chickielady]

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If you had a flock of show quality Delawares you would be one of the very very few in the United States. Maybe even the only one, as far as I know. I would enjoy seeing pictures of those.

They are from LotsaPaints eggs.
I gave them to a BYCer here in WA titled CowgirlGrace.
I still have a few of the pics from LotsaPaints, but I sold the chicks right after hatching them, she wanted them so bad..

 

[Chickielady]

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If you had a flock of show quality Delawares you would be one of the very very few in the United States. Maybe even the only one, as far as I know. I would enjoy seeing pictures of those.

Here ya go, the only pics I still have:

If anyone is interested, I can contact CowgirlGrace or you all know LotsaPaints...but like I said, I gave the chicks away after hatching, I hatch alot of eggs for people.
I got eggs from these parents birds as a trade for some of my eggs.
I have no idea if Cowgirl or even LotsaPaints still has any of the flocks left.
P.S. She apologized for the mud...

 

[Chickielady]

One of the most evident hallmarks of the Icelandic birds being genetically different from other breeds is the fact of their different colors.
Any breed that lived together for so many hundreds of years, would have standardized themselves to one color variation, and bred true, like any other heritage breed does.
But the Icelandics lived together for so long, and still come out party colored, and awesome truth...