Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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[Totalcolour]

Just over a month old​

So, this is one of my pure Icees - I'm thinking pullet

This one is an Icee/Sussex - I wanted to see if I could get some extra hardiness into my meat birds for this climate - I'm thinking cockerel? (more developed comb and wattles, plus redder)

 

[kathyinmo]

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[Fowlman4]

So, this is one of my pure Icees - I'm thinking pullet

Yep, I'd agree with that! I really like her colors, too. From Pala's egg?



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Sure looks like a cockerel to me. Interesting colors on him, too.

 

[Fowlman4]

This is the only Icelandic I have with odd feathering, but I don't think it is frayed or anything. It's like she has a "cow-lick" on her breast.

Kathy, your hen looks like a less-extreme sister of my hen that is definitely fray-feathered (breast cow-lick and all). In fact, her wing feathers are so frayed that my hen can't fly up higher than a coupla feet .. but now don't go thinking for one minute that it handicaps her at all from living FULL OUT

 

[NotAFarm]

Here is the only picture I have of the Easter Hatchalong Icelandic chicks. All the rest are out with their mommas in the "broody boxes", not good for pic taking. This is a Dreki chick that I had to unstick and put a "shoe" on. Concrete would be a better description of what his egg was like when I pulled it from under Kleo. He/She is fine now and in the brooder with the non-Icelandics from the hatch. I thought he/she had been away for too long to return him/her and he/she has "buds" in the brooder.

 

[Jake Levi]

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I am thinking very seriously of mailing some to me once I arrive, it would sure be easier, maybe 3-4 to start over. It could well be the best solution.

Kathy those are gorgeous pics, I love the big mottled rooster.

I am leaning towards thinking that the fray issue is almost moot, of the three featherleged ones the smallest with the poorest feathering is developing out very nicely,
I am going to be growing him out more, he looks to me worth going along with, the only way I really fault him now is size, he will be smaller then my others.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Daron..........congrats on the cow.&nbsp; Guernsey is a milking breed, isn't it?&nbsp; So she's a meat/milk mix?</span></p>

Yes Kelly, that is right.

 

[Jake Levi]

Nice looking heifer Daron, what is she bred to?

I am thinking in terms of mailing four of mine to Alaska, a roo and 3 hens, that will leave a rooster and several hens here to rehome, all quite beautiful, choosing who stays will be hard for sure. Bjorn my featherlegged rooster will go north, as well as Blue, picking the others will be hard, probably throw a coin on them.

I am probably going to Chickenstock at Lansing in June, just to meet some of you here that I dont have a face for yet. I will be bringing a splash silkie that wont go north. And Tiny Tim the small splash feather legged rooster for a pet home. He has a very nice temperament, as does Bjorn, all three of them have nice temperaments. Not flighty nor aggressive.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[griffinkid02]

OK, so I have a slightly amusing story to tell this morning. I had to switch my chicks over to the other brooder this morning so that I could dump out and clean the one they were in. I had decided that while the litter is lasting 2 days between changing, there is a bit too much odor coming off of it around the water-er where they splash despite my best efforts. SO, I decided that this time I would put a fine layer of sand and herbs beneath the pine shavings to give off a more pleasant smell. I added cilantro, parsley flakes, rubbed sage, and caraway seeds as those are the dried herbs which I most enjoy the smell off, then I put in my pine shaving liter and a double hand full of cubed grilled toast leftover from breakfast. (Yes it DID occur to me after wards that with sage, cilantro, parsley, and breadcrumbs one might wonder if I was actually just making dressing flavored mcnugget chicks lmao. Didn't cross my mind at the time). So, I added the chicks, and discovered that while the herbs will do NOTHING to combat the chicken smell in the brooder box, the chicks just absolutely LOVED that I had buried "treasures" in their bedding for them. I watched for 20 minutes solid as they RIPPED through their new bedding, scratching and pecking, until every LAST speck of herb and bread was gone. I had in mind that a great white shark feeding frenzy had NOTHING on my formerly sweet and adorable fuzzy lumps. After they were finally convinced that there were NO more goodies left they drug their engorged fatty butts over to the heat lamp and passed out. Now I'm sitting here trying to convince myself that I do NOT smell thanksgiving coming out of the brooder box, lol. And I promise that I won't be an intruder on this thread forever. I've already decided that once I get my Nankins grown out and have culled the non show quality ones out to be brooder/mamma birds for the rest of my flock, I will be wanting icelandic eggs for them to sit on > Muahahahahaha!