Icelandic Chickens

[debs_flock]

Can you sex these chicks?

I think she was kidding about the sexing.......

I hope so!

Quote: I currently have around 45 campines and getting ready to start doing some heavy culling (in fact one is being processed this morning). I don't think your boy would work into my breeding program, but thanks for the offer.

Deb

 

[Hangtown Farms]

wow that is alot of campines..they are a good chicken. my rooster is the best I have had. he should of been named Hawk Eyes do to his ability to spot them. He is also a fearless rooster. He has fought off hawks twice I have seen. Once he actually attacked one that was going after my hen. He would of been done for if I was not around though. Was a big Red tailed Hawk. He was out matched lol.
Luckily the hawk was not much of a match for a 2"x2" chunk of granite

 

[Hangtown Farms]

ok this batch of young chickens seems different than the rest I have added to the flock.
I have 1 young Icelandic Rooster and 1 blue and 3 black Ameraucana (ugh most look like roosters too) that are about 7 weeks old. well I lost count but probabaly close. They have been out with the big kids during the day for about a week and sleeping in the grow up coop I built. I want to stuff them in the big coop at night soon too so I can move my 3 to 4 week old batch to the grow up coop and attach the run they are currently in to the coop my others are in.
My question is the flock I am moving seems much more like push overs than the rest. I am just worried that they may get really picked on. They have been looking at the big chickens for about a month now because there 15 x 25 run is attached to the large yard so they can see each other through the fence.
This is the age I have done it before and it has gone well. My other batches just have not been push overs. Just need to get the young kids moved up and thinking of just doing the survival of the fitest.

Any ideas?? Seeing how you all have been doing this longer than I probably???

 

[kathyinmo]

X

 

[Miss Molly]

Kathy, I am so Sorry.. My heart breaks for you.
What an aweful way to start your day. He was such a beautiful guy.

 

[NotAFarm]

x

 

[mlm Mike]

Kathy, I am so Sorry.. My heart breaks for you.
What an aweful way to start your day. He was such a beautiful guy.

X3

 

[joyous]

Oh crap! I am so sad. It's my own fault, too......

In my storage garage are my Nella-brooders. I have a plastic (pet food) container on wheels that holds a 50 pound bag of feed that I use in there. Well, obviously, I left the lid open last night. This morning I found my favorite Icelandic boy inside, with the lid down. Dead, of course. I assume he jumped in to get some feed, and the lid came down. What a miserable way to die. I am so mad at myself.

This one.............

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so sorry! He was a beauty!

 

[The Sheriff]

Kathy. How heartbreaking. Be easy on yourself. It was just an accident.

 

[RingedTeal]