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    New to chickens in AZ

    I retract my last statement, though I have not seen any, apparently there are raccoons in the desert around our home. We did not think they were in the area and always saw them as "woodland" critters, but "Professor Google" and Arizona fish and game say otherwise.
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    New to chickens in AZ

    Thank you all for the kind words. We are excited to restart a new flock and chicks were ordered today. We do not think it was raccoons that took our girls from us. We live in the Arizona desert and there are NO trees and VERY few hiding spots for them. there are a few cactus, some small bushes...
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    New to chickens in AZ

    It has been a while since I posted. About 8 months ago we had disaster strike the flock. EVERY bird in the flock was murdered in one night. We do not know what killed them all, but some were carried into the neighbors yards, the rest were ripped apart in the run. We suspect that it was a bobcat...
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    Ordering a bunch of chicks. Selling?

    We ordered 35 sexed females that we received in the spring. I was fully expecting to get at least a couple cockerels, but we received ALL pullets. Most hatcheries are quite good at sexing and will provide a guarantee if sexed females were ordered.
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    Anyone Else with Low Egg Production?

    We have the opposite laying schedule here. Our girls do not lay many during the summer (when temps are often 110+, and lay a ton in the winter (when temps drop to <80. Luckily we have not yet experienced any molts. We have 9 hens that are now 13 months and 29 pullets that are 6 months and just...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    It is that time of year when many start to see their numbers drop. Here in AZ, I at least, have the opposite experience. The summers are so hot that our girls laid very few eggs. Now the temps are getting much more comfortable, and we have lights in the coops and run, so we got 34 eggs yesterday...
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    Arizona Chickens

    The 2 we lost were a Production Red and a Silver Laced Wyandot. Another Production Red seemed to struggle, and lost most of the feathers on her neck, but made it through and is now growing those feathers back in.
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    Arizona Chickens

    New pics of my flock. Most made it through their first Arizona summer without issue, Though I did lose 2 of the older pullets to the heat. In the end, we still have 38 girls.
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    New to chickens in AZ

    A few pics of the girls last night. Not great pics, but it was already dark and they were getting ready for bed.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    30 from 38 girls. This is about the average for us so far, though we don't know if ALL the girls are laying yet, but suspect they are.
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    Introducing Chicks to aggressive flock

    When I introduced our new chicks to the existing flock, we basically had a coop inside a coop. We had a smaller, enclosed in hardware cloth, coop that we placed the chicks in. This had its own run as part of the design. We placed the coop inside the run of the existing flock. This allowed all of...
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    New to chickens in AZ

    Thank you all for the suggestions and ideas. I am looking into some bait boxes right now. I have been reading other threads on controlling rats in the run and coop, so a plan is forming. hopefully in the coming weeks we will see a significant reduction in the rat population!
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    New to chickens in AZ

    It has been quite a while since I last did an update. Things are going well overall! We ended up with a total of 38 chickens by the end of the Phoenix summer. We lost 2 of the older girls to the heat, but all of the new pullets made it through the summer with apparent ease. We did lose one chick...
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    Brooding chicks outdoors in summer"

    Here is a pic of the brooder setup before the chicks were all added.
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    Brooding chicks outdoors in summer"

    Sorry, I wasn't real clear on placement. I had the huge brooder set up in my family room for a month. At that point we moved the chicks out to the coop and run.
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