Arizona Chickens

[springvalley123]

That's what I do but sometimes that 2 seconds seems like forever. Especially since in the morning sometimes I'm running around like a freak trying to get out the door. Hehe!

I use a blue bunny ice cream container filled about to the bottom of the B's. Then a few seconds in the melted ice will make it release.

 

[9d84runner]

I use a blue bunny ice cream container filled about to the bottom of the B's. Then a few seconds in the melted ice will make it release.

It lasts awhile before breaking? I can't be eating ice cream all the time for chicken ice. Haha.

 

[NuggetMama]

https://cs-tf.com/top-6-chicken-hatcheries-in-arizona-review-guides/

Thank you lovie!! I gotta order more pullets before we rehome the cockerels. Our one RIR female we have is super bonded to the males and cries a crap ton if she can’t see them… so gonna get her babies to fuss over instead

 

[springvalley123]

It lasts awhile before breaking? I can't be eating ice cream all the time for chicken ice. Haha.

I'm re-using mine from last year.

 

[BlueBaby]

OK, here is the chick that I've been calling blue cuckoo colored.

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I'm guessing dude, not dudette, based on the comb size, even though big combs are a thing around here. He's 4 weeks old and the largest chick.

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I'm thinking boy also. Look at those dropped wattles, and that comb isn't exactly a fleshy pink color for being 4 week's old!

 

[BlueBaby]

Well today I found out what was going on with that double yolker torpedo egg that was layed on the ground out there yesterday. It wasn't one of the 4 hen's after all. I thought the egg was a bit dirty looking in spots because it had been layed on the ground, but there was another one out there today that was a normal shaped egg and had been layed in the nest box. So, I have my first Bielefelder pullet that's now laying egg's, and her's are speckled.

 

[BlueBaby]

In case some of you were planning to let your chicken's scratch around and eat in your compost piles, I found this thread warning that they could get botulism from that.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/compost-and-botulism.1143061/

 

[springvalley123]

In case some of you were planning to let your chicken's scratch around and eat in your compost piles, I found this thread warning that they could get botulism from that.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/compost-and-botulism.1143061/

In order for the compost pile to be even a possible source (not just "a likely" source because they couldn't think of anything else, the compost pile would have to have gone anaerobic according to one source. Another (us govt) source says the spores are "everywhere" and points to food, like an older BYC thread does.
https://www.fda.gov/food/laboratory-methods-food/bam-chapter-17-clostridium-botulinum

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/foodborne-illness-and-disease/pathogens/clostridium-botulinum

The most common sense article, says that spoiled food, or rotting items, could cause it:

https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-health/common-poultry-diseases/botulism-in-poultry/

My chickens have always had access to the compost, but I never compost animal remains, eggs, etc.

 

[igorsMistress]

That's what I do but sometimes that 2 seconds seems like forever. Especially since in the morning sometimes I'm running around like a freak trying to get out the door. Hehe!

Yeah lol, I can relate! I like silicone stuff,
regardless what you use it’ll need a few minutes first; you can try spraying the container with nonstick spray also. The issue with silicone and non stick spray is eventually the silicone gets sticky from what my daughter told me.

 

[igorsMistress]

In case some of you were planning to let your chicken's scratch around and eat in your compost piles, I found this thread warning that they could get botulism from that.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/compost-and-botulism.1143061/

Thanks for sharing.