Icelandic Chickens

[The Sheriff]

Hey all! I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I don't get updates in this thread anymore. I could check it myself but hubby and I have been moving my website for over a week now. I moved from Squarespace to Wordpress because Squarespace is having serious issues. I couldn't post a blog the last few days I was still on that platform because I couldn't scroll in the editing window. One sentence or one pic and I was done! They just got $37 million in venture capital money so maybe the kids that own it took off to some foreign country. Anyway, if that service shut down my lat three years of blogging go with it. So I now have a self hosted Wordpress site. The text all transferred over but none of the pictures, of which there are thousands. Michael and I, (mostly Michael) are uploading each and every one of them and placing them back in the post. With HughesNet that is no easy feat. We are a third of the way there.

Michael created on online store for me to sell eggs and chicks. I am out of stock on everything right now as I have to toss the Icelandic eggs since putting Lukka back and the cream legbars aren't laying. Anyway, it will be there when we are ready.

Please feel free to check it out and leave a comment. I am really happy with it. There are some changes but we have all been through that here and survived.

Anyway, I am all caught up reading and will try to check more often for replies here. I gave away 12 Icelandic chicks today to a lady who drove 2 hours to get here. She found me through my blog and fell in love online with my chickens. She paid me in cookies! It was so fun to see someone just so enthusiastic and thrilled to have them. I am left with my two little freak chicks all alone in the brooder.

I have 16 Icelandic eggs due to hatch next week and I will probably auction those as day olds if enough hatch. Then I have an Icelandic break until the middle of the first week in March when Lukka will be "pure" again. I do have an Icelandic girl who started sitting today but I think she just may be testing the waters. If she is really broody I will probably give her a few Isbar eggs to sit on. I wish my cream Legbars were laying! That would be just wonderful. They are sure getting pretty. The little cockerel is going up on auction tonight. I have one too many roos on each side of the fence.



Here is my other cream legbar girl visiting with Stella, who looks thrilled!



I just sold an Isbar pair today, an extra cockerel and a black pullet for $200.00. They are shipping next week.

My blue Isbars get prettier every day! This is the little cockerel that I sold and the black pullet is going with him. That leaves me with one cockerel and 10 pullets. They are visiting with Louis here. Notice Lukka and Isi sneaking up to the fence. There is a cute video on my blog where the little Isbar pullets show Jackson my donkey some love. It is the post "All that and a bag of chips." This is the spot where it all happens at the Buck 'n Run Ranch.



Oh, and my Splash Isbar with the horrible injury from the plastic mesh is doing great! Her mouth looks almost normal.



They love to play in the fig tree. I attached a round wooden table top on one of the branches we cut and they love to get up there and knock each other off. bThe run is covered with netting!



But that doesn't prevent attempts to break in by Icelandic's. Most people try to break OUT of jail. Leave it to an Icelandic to try to break IN!



Oh yeah, my second Isbar pullet started laying today! Look how different the eggs look.



That's it! I am placing an ad and going to bed.

Mary

 

[drumstick diva]

Not a farm OMG you have gray hair young too!! I also did the pulling thing when my boyfriend mentioned I had a gray hair. Like you I pulled them out one by one till I had noticeable bald spots. Dyed it for awhile but had split ends and such so badly I just quit. I still had dark hair when my son was about 3 or 4 and had some pictures taken to prove it. Then it just turned white - don't care anymore. But I give myself a buzz cut a few times a year and it looks thicker and I think it makes me look younger and punk. Better than older and pathetic .

 

[NotAFarm]

Mary, It's good to hear you didn't fall of the face of the earth! That would have been horrible!!
The Isbar eggs are so different.....I like the left one....the right is too olive colored....looks like one my first hatchery Amer.i.cana laid. I like the idea of the table top on the cut-off tree trunk!

 

[Farmerboy16]

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Daron, your mom is beautiful. It does not look like she has that many kids and all homeschooled??? I hope your brother is doing much better by now.

Thank you. My brother is better and married now. But he has some joints that are fused permanently, like his left elbow, and right ankle, and he has to wear special shoes to ease the pain on both feet when he walks. Can't stand for a long period of time too.

Mary, It's good to hear you didn't fall of the face of the earth! That would have been horrible!!
The Isbar eggs are so different.....I like the left one....the right is too olive colored....looks like one my first hatchery Amer.i.cana laid. I like the idea of the table top on the cut-off tree trunk!

I was thinking about you too Mary! Things are looking good for you! I like the green eggs! I candled 14 Icelandic eggs that I got from Hillbilly Hen last night and all of the eggs are fertile!!!!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Daron, What a nice looking family you are a part of!! I thought you were the good looking one but now I know all of your family fall into that catagory!!

Just watched the big game.....must admit that I was rooting against the Patriots.......glad Eli and the Giants won but truly hate when two East Coast teams get into any Championship game!

...........and just because I think each day needs an Icelandic pic to make it complete...........here's Boi and Anna.......

Very pretty!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

He's very lucky to be alive Daron. Sorry he has constant pain though.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Mary, I always enjoy your pictures and reading your posts!

Daron, I am so glad that the fertility is good! I candled the 24 Icelandic eggs Saturday [DH had to help] and only tossed three. Of the three I took from the fridge, only one was not developing.

edited because I just remembered...Daron, 3 of those eggs sat in the freezing cold coop all day Monday while I was in the hospital and DH washed them because he did not think they would be any good to keep for hatching. I went ahead and put them in there just in case. Those would be the ones without a date written on them.

 

[kathyinmo]

Mary, Congratulations on the new Isbar layer! I love the different variations of color from blue and green egg layers.

Daron, your mama is a beautiful lady! Thanks for sharing with us!

Laura, glad you are out of the hospital and I hope you have a speedy recovery!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Thanks Kathy

I am dealing with the pain, no problem, but it's the severe lack of energy that is gonna kill me

 

[The Sheriff]

How is everyone tonight? We are working on the website!

Here are my little science project babies. Mama is a bantam frizzled cochin and daddy is a cream Legbar. I think that the autosexing trait might have carried over from the legbar. The one on the right who is frizzled has the female coloring and the one on the left, non frizzled, has the male coloring.