Icelandic Chickens

[Farmerboy16]

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I've never had home raised turkey, so let me know how it is, K?

I have.

It was good.

 

[The Sheriff]

Jake I took some video tonight of your hirsute babies eating their nightly eggs. I break one of Phyllis's tiny bantam eggs into a paper plate, stir it up and microwave for 30 seconds. I usually sprinkle some sand on it but it is raining and I don't way to get wet. They love it and the two tiny ones have really started growing. I was worried that they were going to stay runty but they are almost the same size as the bigger one now. It's a good thing they are going to a friend or I would be hard pressed to give them up. The brown one has so much leg feathering it looks cochin. No worries though, only Icelandic roos in da house and only Icelandic white egg layers. No chance of a mix up. Just a wonderful bit of serendipity. They are pretty friendly little chicks. I want them strong and able to take a short flight to WA when they are ready so they get mealworms or egg daily along with their regular feed. I am also weaning them off the heatlamp much earlier than I do other chicks. During the day I turn the dimmer switches down to low. I only increase the heat if they huddle under the lamp. But they mostly run and play and watch us come and go. They have a bird's eye view of everything that goes on in the garage. If it's warm out I leave the door open and they can watch the geese and donkeys too.

I have other video I need to process tonight but I will try to post it tomorrow.

 

[The Sheriff]

Kelly, I was playing around with your incubator tonight with the ostrich eggs I keep in a bowl on the dining room table. They fit perfectly with the lid on. Still plenty of room before the egg would touch the heating element. Tomorrow I am going to plug it in with the eggs in it and see what happens. The correct temp for emu eggs is 97.5. If ostrich eggs fit, then emu eggs should be fine!

Let's get ready to get paranoid!

 

[The Sheriff]

Kathy, how are your llamas?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Now when do ya get the real eggs?

 

[The Sheriff]

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Oops I need to email the seller. Old lady brain got me.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Hey Sheriff, they make a ring to put between the halves of those stryafoam bators to enable them to be used for extra large eggs. I saw them advertized in one of the chick catalogs,not for sure if it was murrays or strombergs or someone else.

I have an egg for the last two days! I am sure the rest will start son as their combs are beautiful brightn red. I let them free range the other day in the light rain and Freyer the roo got wet enough that it cleaned his mud stuck feathers real nice. Makes him look even prettier.

Wow Jake 18 inches and still snowing! I want to live where you do! Of course I would have to leave the wife as she hates snow! Hows that song go,"looky there another bite!"lol

 

[Jake Levi]

Mary they are sounding better all of the time !!

They can have scrambled eggs with me in the morn, although no grit on mine!

I am really puzzled that so few feathered shanks show up then when they do they are so feathered out! Its a puzzlement ! Gotta do a lot of looking into this. Have you had many others feathered like this?? Mary notafarm said she had several earlier this year, I havnt heard of any others, unless folks just dont think its anything to comment on???

To me it may well be a plus for a northern clime bird. Time will tell.

The goats are in their new quarters tonight, snuggled deep in their hay, their heated water bucket is still in the trailer where the chickens water heater is hooked up, I will take a bucket of water out to them in the morning and sunday the Icees get moved and all the hookups go too. Even with the short days(sunset at 410) they will get a lot more light, and I think that I will put a white heat lamp out for them too. The new quarters arnt as tight as the trailer is, open(chainlink) on the front and wire on both sides, only the rear wall is solid. But lots of bedding, in the nests and the floor, and the roosts will be closer to the light.

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

 

[Chickielady]

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Thanks everyone, here is what he replied to me after I sent a decription AND photos of the birds:

Hi Robin;

I mistakenly thought that when you said Icelandic chickens you were talking about a standard bred breed from Iceland. After looking at the picture and reading your description it seems that someone imported barnyard chickens from Iceland and I see almost no connection between them and a APA/ABA poultry show. Perhaps you should be advertizing them on the Backyardchicken group or the Urban chicken gatherings around Portland. If one isn’t set to produce a standard bred bird then an APA/ABA sanctioned poultry show seems to me to probably not be the appropriate place for them.

Brian Decker

APA/ABA judge

It is really making me angry that he is verbally "looking down" on not only me but the breed, and BYC as if we here on BYC are just a bunch of yeah-whos.....

This makes me so mad!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Mary, if you need an Emu incubator, I can send the one to you next trip DH makes to NorCal, his Dad's beloved Farm Master~~~if ya want it.
It is BIG.
Google Farm Master.