Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

You all are welcome! I had to pawn off all the extras they sent me somewhere.

Mahonri and Boston, I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Oh, Dar, I'm sorry to hear this news.

I know Geoffrey was very special to you. I hope Boston can figure out what is happening. The neocropsy sounds like a good idea if there are no clues as what happened to them both.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Yeah! I finally got three eggs today from the ices! I have been getting only two for so long, and all of them look like they should be laying,their combs are so b ig and red! And I finally got some eggs set in an incubator so am keeping my fingers crossed! On the down side ,starting this early I'm afraid they will all be broody about the time the bantams are all ready to set in the spring and I won't have any eggs to set!
I have decide that the topknot hens are calmer and smarter than the no hat hens! My two straight comb not hat hens are so flighty and so stupid! I would almost swear they were a different breed. Maybe its because I notice them more since they are also the only two that are speckled!

 

[The Sheriff]

Yikes, my bad luck goes on. I just tossed one of my emu eggs that started stinking. We cracked it open and it was just rotten egg, no embryo. It doesn't look as if it was fertile.

That means that a nonfertile egg will lose the same amount of weight as a fertile one with a chick growing. I am very worried now about my other two being non-fertile. I am so glad I have the nose of a blood hound. Michael couldn't smell it at all.

 

[kathyinmo]

I am thinking the other 2 would be stinky by now, too. Ya think? So, maybe they are good to go.

This bad luck streak is OVER!

 

[The Sheriff]

We think alike. I said that very thing to Michael!

 

[NotAFarm]

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Yes, Oooovverrrrr!!!!

 

[Mahonri]

They better have embryos or I'll be super bummed out!

 

[NotAFarm]

Okay, Icelandic fans, question for you....this inquiring mind wants to know....I have a BQ Silver Laced Wyandotte hen that is molting. She looks soooooo bad....kinda like the pic Kathy posted of the wet, neckid hen this summer. The other two SLW hens also went through hard molts. They are big and "fluffy" now but had bare patches and looked bad. When my two Icelandic hens molted, they never got neckid looking. They lost feathers but never had bare patches. Even their tail feathers were somewhat present the whole time. They lost a few at a time but others were growing back in too. Audun was the same, except, at one point, he did not have any tail feathers. But now he is looking like his grand self again! Has anyone had "neckid" Icelandics when molting? I'm hoping this is a trait all of my flock will have, short, mild molts.

 

[Mahonri]

no hard molts with my Icelandics. Boston how about you?