Icelandic Chickens

[Totalcolour]

Mahonri and Boston, I'm sorry you lost chickens. Some of my non chicken buddies simply don't understand how we get attached to our birds.

Mary, glad your little Isbar is doing so well.

QUESTION

Can chickens break their tails? One of my little Icee roo's tail is sticking down at a very strange angle this morning. He was fine yesterday. I know they can move them around (sometimes it looks like wry tail, then they straighten out) But this is just so wrong looking. He's running round fine with the girls though.

 

[RingedTeal]

Kathy are you still hatching the Oreo chicks?

ETA:Mary glad she is doing better.

 

[AK Michelle]

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I too will be exercising my right, although I don't know what good it does since they are usually posting the final results before Alaska polls close. The electoret get to vote in Eastern time zone

How on Earth does that work?
How strange...so you all hear the results before the polls are closed in AK?
I do not understand how the elctoret can vote until the voters finish...?

Ahh yes, THAT would be the question. Kinda makes you wonder how it works in the rest of the country too. Hmmmm.

 

[AK Michelle]

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Hi Boston, I was off in la-la land when you joined this merry group, where did you get your Icelandics? Not that it really matters, I'm just nosey

Either way, as Jake says, Life is better with Icelandics!

 

[AK Michelle]

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I'm going to have to keep an eye on things here too. I have yet to see one of my chickens molt. We are talking 100's of chickens, over a span of years, and never have I seen one that looked like it was molting.

This year they have heat, maybe that will make a difference, who knows. It has always surprised me, and I always just assume it's the climate, we never really get that warm. If we hit 70F it is only for a day.

Some of my birds are 4 or 5 years old. My Icelandics were hatched on 3/15 and 4/15 and the crash test dummies came after those dates. But I have a roo and hens from each of those dates. I will have to watch closely and see what happens.

 

[NotAFarm]

Michelle, Yes, please keep an eye on yours and let us know how they molt...if they molt...age..etc.... Thanks!

Boston has Mahonri's Icelandics.

 

[The Sheriff]

I have my property fenced and back under my control and not the neighbor's. My land is the parcel outlined in red. The part outlined in green had been taken over by the neighbor across the driveway before we bought the house. The prior owners didn't maintain it so he started doing it because that is the view from his living room. Under CA's eminent domain laws it could have been his land had we continued to allow him to maintain it. I wanted it back and got it back. We finished fencing it and the donkeys got their first shot at it off halters and lead lines today. They are all the way down in the left hand corer by the green fence post in the third picture.

 

[LarryPQ]

Was your neighbor annoyed?

 

[The Sheriff]

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No, not at all. I think he was more annoyed with all the owners before us who left it six feet high dry weeds. That was why he started mowing and weed whacking it. I drew the line when he drove over in his ranch utility vehicle and spent the day with a crowbar prying the rocks from around my pond and driving them over to his house to finish his rock wall. That is when I said I wanted it fenced. It seemed to me at that point that he viewed the land as his. He is a nice guy and said he totally understands our decision. We are already a non-conforming property because we only have five acres and in this area the smallest parcel allowed is ten acres. This one was a misfit during the subdivision of a huge piece of property but was grandfathered in the zoning. Were it to suddenly only be 3.something acres I am sure we would lose our A-1 zoning which allows us to keep livestock, including chickens.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Glad you got that part done Mary. Congrats to you and Michael! And I'm sure Jack and Diane are happy to have the extra room.