Icelandic Chickens

[Chickielady]

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My Icelandics have pretty much adopted the calves.

One pullet was trying to ride one of the bulls, he bucked her off.

Oh do you just wish you had a camera at that exact moment!!??

 

[The Sheriff]

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We have similar issues here Daron.

 

[Chickielady]

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You are right of course. There is one that already stands out (guess how long I've been in the COLD basement staring at them?) He's in a pen with two pullets, and seems very calm. He's the one that Chickielady took to the bird show, so I guess she liked him best too.

They all (but for one) calm down when I hold them - they finally figure I'm not going to murder them. Except for one - he screams like I was the Spanish Inquisition

So, I shall wait and see which ones "work". The girls are simply gorgeous

AHA! I told ya he screams like all murder is going down.but that does not mean he is not a bad boy......but remember what I told you about there being 2 blues & 2 red/browns...so pick one of each.
The Birchen , the Spangled (was at the show) and the pale neck hackled with big red crest is the 3 I would keep..but you really need a blue in there, and with as many hens as you have, 4 would work.
I have not noticed them to crow excessively at all.
Almost as if the main cockeral will crow, and the rest behave themselves, has anyone else noticed that?
And I have baby pictures for Kate, will post.

 

[Chickielady]

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We have similar issues here Daron.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_babychicks-8.jpg

Mary do you go everywhere with camera in hand?
You get the best Kodak moments!!!

 

[Chickielady]

For Kate::::::::::

OK, and went through my records & chicks pipped extremely fast, on July 11th, 2011.
They were given the Marek's vaccine also.

 

[The Sheriff]

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I pretty much do always have a camera with me. I'm a blogger! It's the law. But that was not the best moment. That's a fainting goat and these were the best Kodak moments:

 

[Chickielady]

Crimany! Looks to be dead!!!!!!!!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Those fainting goats are hysterical

 

[Gresh]

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I pretty much do always have a camera with me. I'm a blogger! It's the law. But that was not the best moment. That's a fainting goat and these were the best Kodak moments:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_babychicks-9.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_babychicks-10.jpg

Hey, we have a fainting goat, too! More like a fainting goat mix. She's like 2/3 pigmy and 1/3 fainting or something, but she inherited the fainting gene after it skipped a generation

Anything can set her off: the chickens will start to eat her food, the wind will blow strong for a moment, a shower of leaves will fall where she's standing, etc., and she goes down like she was shot.

Your fainting goat is very pretty

~Gresh~

 

[The Sheriff]

Oh, I love the fainting goats. I have four of them, two unrelated sets of sisters. One I have a hard time getting pictures of because she is always under my feet. She is the most myotonic. Faints when she sees food.