Icelandic Chickens

[Chickielady]

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You are welcome Jake!

And I want to add, I have a pure black pullet.
She has no bling at all...we have named her Jane.
She looks like an escapee from another pen that has ended up with the Icelandics

Does anyone have a pure white?

 

[Mahonri]

Laree... your Stella looks just like my lone Icelandic.

Driving today, I noticed an Icelandic roo 1/4 mile north of my home. I'm afraid the neighbors I gave the chicks to in April have let them free range.....

 

[kathyinmo]

What is it with these 2 boys? They constantly tag team the Coronation Sussex girls.

Really though, you should see these 2 guys together. They are the greatest team. Really! They never fight or argue and are best buddies. I love having them.

 

[Jake Levi]

Kathy that is how Blau and Isi are, with The Countess hanging close, I call them The Three Chickateers. If you see one the other two are close by. The one in the foreground looks much like Blau, or vice versa. Magnificent !

How is the cutting back going?

Life is good , and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !

 

[The Sheriff]

We have a bit of a "situation" going on here. I always thought that the village idiots' brains held little more than the follicles that allow them to wear their hair like this:

I now think that there may be some gray matter and neurons in there as well. It turns out that they know every free range Icelandic by sight. Yesterday I let Miss Polaris and one other Icelandic with a big baby out into the free range area. Stu and Lou picked them out of the crowd immediately and gave chase trying to stomp them. It was so scary. The adult girls were able to high tail it down to the barn coop but the baby was a sitting duck. I had to open the gate and let it back in or it was gonna be dead. I thought that overnight the emus would forget about the "new" girls but the minute they got let out this morning they went after them! Michael can't tell when there is a new Icelandic! How can those two fools? It's been an hour now and they are leaving them alone more but I don't know how I am going to integrate all these babies down there. I got emus as guard animals but I thought they would be a little more selective!

 

[Jake Levi]

Yes, very territorial as they mature,

stories of wild bull emus stomping lorries are too horrible to repeat here.

there is a tale of an attempt to ship a pair to England on a sailing ship but the emu stomped the ship and it sunk.

VERY territorial !

It could be an issue introducing new ones that they dont know. I'd only add more mature ones that can run really fast.


Life is good and better with Icelandic Chickens and Pack Goats !

 

[kathyinmo]

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It is getting more difficult to make choices. I videoed some of them yesterday when I threw out some scratch. Most of the Barred Rocks, New Hampshires, Icelandics and others were on the other side of the property.



This is the Icelandics coming out of their pen this morning, high tailing it to the timber...

 

[The Sheriff]

Love the guy with the one tail feather!

What the heck is that big rooster that is doing the majority of the crowing?

 

[kathyinmo]

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There are alot of them with very few feathers! Molting madness here, for sure. The one crowing is a Buff Sussex who would not come out. He stayed in the rooster pen all day, even though I had the gate open. Guess he was on guard duty.

Did you notice the Icelandic boy (blue and silver), Picasso? He just hangs with those Coronation Sussex girls all the time. Since I am not hatching, I just let them all run.

 

[The Sheriff]

No, not the one crowing in the background, this guy: