Arizona Chickens

[cyborg]

Wow that is awesome! What kind of seeds are in there? Vegetable, fruit, flowers, trees?

YES.

 

[azchickies]

Hello! New to the forum, so I hope I'm doing this right....

Anyone have tips on the best places around Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa to buy organic feed? We're in Tempe. Currently paying about $27 for 40lbs.

Thanks!!!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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[Beckyhsinglsc]

Hello! New to the forum, so I hope I'm doing this right....

Anyone have tips on the best places around Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa to buy organic feed? We're in Tempe. Currently paying about $27 for 40lbs.

Thanks!!!

There is a Phoenix feed co-op that orders organic feed every 2 months. Tomorrow is the deadline for April delivery.
phoenixorganicfeed.com

You have to pick up your feed from a couple of different drop locations (3 starting in June) when it is delivered.

It's in Tucson too, but I don't know the link.

 

[City farm]

As for the seed box we can add some beautiful wild flowers. And I'm going to see about harvesting the citronella seed's. here's a picture of the citronella seeds.

Beautiful flowers! The second pic looks like a scented geranium.

I should of said, flower/seed's.. I am letting them fully flower before harvesting them... Next had citronella before.. It smells wonderful when I water it.. @ thanks to @Sill we have lemon grass... She said she adds it to her nesting box's.. Plus it loves the sun..

 

[City farm]

OK, y'all I'm going to try again: [COLOR=008000]Who wants the BYC seed box next? [/COLOR] It's at my house (in Tucson) and it is time for those seeds to move along!

Ooh, What is the seed box?!

Ooh, What is the seed box?!

yes what is a seed box

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We make a big deal when it is here at our home.. We have had 3 plus parties just for the seed box...

 

[Sill]

I'm glad you asked about the fly preditor... I don't know what you get when you use the referral code.. But I hope it is good..

If anyone has not tried this, so far I have to say it has worked. Less fly's... Here is their number.. 1-877-314-7739 or go on line www.spalding-labs.com
Once you join up you recieve the little buggers that will go out and eat the fly larva... Yeah!!! If you want use referral code 264068298.. Enjoy..

The number wouldn't work at the web site so I called them and they had me complete the online order then call them back with your invoice number so you would get referral credit. Don't know what that would be, but I hope it's something!

Beautiful flowers! The second pic looks like a scented geranium.

It is a scented geranium! They are very pretty but I have yet to have one make it through summer. Maybe I just don't have the right spot yet.

 

[Sill]

56 quail eggs? Wow!

Do quail need to be kept in coops like chickens do, or do you just let them completely free range? I absolutely adore the wild quail we have around here but haven't really contemplated how one goes about raising and keeping them as part of a mixed poultry flock.

They need a cage, coop, run, aviary or tractor. They cannot free range, at all! They are small enough that pretty much everything that can eat meat will want to eat them plus they have zero sense of self-preservation. If one gets out they will literally just sit and watch something come up to eat them. They don't have a "homing" instinct like chickens and won't return to a coop to sleep. Also it is illegal to release domestic quail without a permit. They can release illness into wild quail populations that have no resistance to them. It can be an ecological disaster to release domestic quail.

Coturnix do best in groups or coveys of 3-7 hens per roo if you want fertile eggs, less hens per roo and the hens can get over-bred. If you only want egg production you can just keep hens, which are quieter anyway though the quail roo crows are not too loud. More room is always better for housing but 2 foot by 2 foot enclosure can house a small covey as long as they have places to get away from each other if desired. Most of my coveys are in 2x4 foot cages.

They are the cutest egg laying machines there is. They rival the best of the best in layer chickens for number of eggs laid per year and they can start laying at 8 weeks of age.

From eggs...

to chicks in 18 days...

gangly youngster at 14 days...


full grown at 8 weeks.


White quail photo bomb!

 

[Sill]

I should of said, flower/seed's.. I am letting them fully flower before harvesting them... Next had citronella before.. It smells wonderful when I water it..
@ thanks to @Sill we have lemon grass... She said she adds it to her nesting box's.. Plus it loves the sun..

Lemon grass pieces added to nest boxes help keep the mosquitoes out. Before I started putting the lemon grass in I would look in the boxes for eggs and see mosquitoes waiting in the nesting material for a feathered meal to wander in.

There is a Phoenix feed co-op that orders organic feed every 2 months. Tomorrow is the deadline for April delivery.
phoenixorganicfeed.com

You have to pick up your feed from a couple of different drop locations (3 starting in June) when it is delivered.

It's in Tucson too, but I don't know the link.

X2 on the co-op. I also get flour and sprouting wheat from them.

 

[houdiniduck]

We make a big deal when it is here at our home.. We have had 3 plus parties just for the seed box...

@City farm , you should have it come to your house again, I want it, but I don't have the nice set up for parties. I vote it comes to your house. hahahahha