Icelandic Chickens

[Happy Chooks]

Uh oh, what did Diana do now?

 

[Mahonri]

Laree, we are doing good. DS#4 got the front lawn mowed and went to Costco shopping DS#5 got the coop cleaned... tried to get #6 & #7 to do some work around the house but then their friends from Casa Grande showed up, so I'm not going to bother trying to clean.

Had some handymen here fixing and painting. Now I've got to get a grow out pen built where the old vert ramp was.
DW & DS#3 are on the reservation now south of Page headed south. They should have been to Flag by now....

I just took two percocet, that should put me down for a couple of hours.

I let the broody hen out with her six chicks this morning. The one that I thought was going to be a white crested blue looks like it will be a white crested barred. I can tell a couple of those red sussex are roos already.

Sadly, I found a tumor on the neck of my gorgeous NH that I hatched from kathy's eggs at Easter. She never did look like the other hens I saw in Kathy's pics. Her comb never got big and I think she was smaller than most. She's been laying 2-3 eggs a week but you can tell the disk-like tumor is slowing her down.

Well, time to take a nap.

Have a great day y'all. glad I have a bunch of Boston's Icelandic eggs in my bator. I'm feeling real good about it right now.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Punishment?.......I think pics of Diana are far from punishment!!

Love the "I've Been Good" on her hat!!

We got about 3" of snow this morning so it's "beginning to look alot like Christmas" here!! The Icelandics born this year don't know quite what to think of the whiteness that fell on their world. The two other times it has snowed was only a dusting so things weren't WHITE like now. So funny to watch them come to the door to go out and stop dead in their tracks and look

 

[NotAFarm]

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Dar, Glad to hear you're doing better and that your family is on their way home. The bator full of eggs should keep you distracted unitl you're up and around! Don't be handling those eggs while you're on the percocets!!!!!

 

[The Sheriff]

Glad you are felling better Dar. I have good news on my NYD eggs. All six of the Swedish Flower Hen eggs are developing and I can see eyes in three of them. Unfortunately their incubator mates are on lockdown so I am going to have to hand turn them. I am going to split the difference on humidity with the hatchlings and new guys. My emu eggs are in occupancy of the other incubator.

I am not shipping the 13 Icelandics due to hatch on Tuesday after all. We decided there would not be enough chicks to travel safely even though it is just two counties over from me. Neither of us has time to drive so they are going to a local guy and I will set more for her. So much for no more shipping eggs or hatching! I am hoping the fertility is better because Isi is mating like a mad man right now. I still have Little Man as well since he got away from Farmer Fred at the re-homing attempt.

Either my second blue copper Marans started laying today or my Welsummer did. Not sure which but I got two dark eggs! Also Skye started laying again so I got two blue eggs. And I saw Frida, my Blue Isbar exiting an empty nestbox this afternoon when I put them away for the night!

I am on pins and needles to see the color of those green Isbar eggs.

 

[Mahonri]

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I can hardly wait to see closeup pics of those eggs! And hoping for future purchase!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats on the eggs and Frida practicing in the nest!

Glad you are feeling better Dar. I'll be looking for your posts in about 30 minutes when the pain meds hit.

 

[Mahonri]

OK...drugs are doin' their thang. Nighty-nite.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Mary, I can hardly wait to see a pic of your egg basket!! White, dark brown, blue, green..........

 

[Totalcolour]

Glad Dar is doing well.

Looking forward to seeing Isbar eggs.

My Icee pullets are going to lay "any minute now" well, it's what I keep telling HWMBO

Got some greens laying, one blue and 2 beige - hmmm!

Goodnight everyone, hope you all are doing well.

Bad day for me - anniversary of daughter's death. I lit candles.

see ya'all tomorrow!