Arizona Chickens - Page 2684

Hi everyone, ive heard about this site so thought id check it out, So guess im a newbie here. I live in Wittmann, Az 45 min from Phoenix and a native . I raise Bantam Silkies, Frizzles, and some projects Sizzles. The most important thing you can do is provide shade and lots water. If you can free ranch your chickens they will find shade and will be very happy. plus keep the bugs ,scorpions, rodents, weeds ect away and feed YOU :). Ive seen people put tons of money into fancy coops only to have the high winds destroy them to a pile of match sticks. A simple dog run and a nesting box and roosting stick and a little shade screen works fine and holds up great. if you are hatching chicks just put some chicken wire around the bottom so keep babies in. Ways to keep them cool in our 122 heat: Misters, Fans, portable swamp coolers, frozen water bottles, heavy clay flower pot drip pans filled with water to walk in, shade screens , climbing shrubs. hope this helps

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My mom is interested in one.  She has a block fenced in back yard - HUGE yard & unless the silly things can fly pretty well (Can they?) it should be OK back there.

 

Anyone have any ideas where I could procure one?

Mikey, peacocks can fly... When I lived in Maricopa, There were some people down the road that had dozens of them.. They would fly up an perch on the roof top of their house.. When you drove by in the early,(right about sun up), tey looked like dragons or gargoyles on top of a castle.. They roamed all over the neighborhood, and got in the middle of the road.. If you honked your horn at them, they just fan their tails and stand there in the road.. A real pain when you are in a hurry.. Very pretty though...   Will  

I don't understand something! I went through all of Cottons chicks to look for more pasty butt [all clear] and noticed that my silky chicks only have 3 toes! Tumbleweed is the only roo I have and I know he is purebred silky and Cotton is purebred silky. The last clutch had the correct toes so WHAT HAPPENED!

Some of my hatchery spitz are missing toenails & parts of toes.  I just tossed it up to poor hatchery genetics.

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MikeyD----      HI,     I do not have peacocks but have several friends who do.  I also tended to them when I worked at the PHX ZOO.   Yes, They can fly very well especially the females.  One of my friends had 2 of her expensive hens fly to a house about 2 miles away, she found them but the Lady who lives at the house where the Pcocks flew to refuses to give them back to the real owner.  Her reason for not giving them back  "her sons, love to chase them around too much" !  What a psyco thief!!!    My friend is very upset needless to say.  Also they do scream very loudly and it does sound like a woman or small child screaming "HELP" !   It Can be  disturbing to others who dont know what it is!  Also, it is very true that they do roost as high as they can get and there is no fence high enough to keep them in.  Another of my friends with pcocks had to cover  the entire run she has hers in .  She used that flimsy 2" chicken wire stuff and is very effective at keeping them in, but who want to pen up peacocks?  :(  Maybe clipping the wings on a regular basis might help!  Good luck 

 

Thank you Puffy, Sonoran and Memphis.

 

I'm OK with clipping wings and as mom lives 12 miles from us I'm OK with the noise as well.  

 

If they are raised from a chick in a specific location, will they pretty much stay there?

YOU WOULD HAVE A BETTER CHANCE BUT STILL NO GUARANTEES!!!  cLIPING WINGS ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS IS THE BEST CHANCE TO MAKE THE LITTLE TRAVELERS STAY PUT!!!