Recent content by PhxChix

hawks can totally and very quickly fly from a much further away perch to swoop and pick up a chicken. I have tons of trees and they actually serve to hide my girls from the hawks and a bit of protection, possibly also. Hawks usually like to sit in high trees, not smaller fruit trees that are...

I am in Phoenix AZ and I take 3 walls off the coop sides in the summer (same size as yours). I have chicken wire on them already. I would like to put up a small swamp cooler but not sure if it would make a difference since 3 sides are open. They have a large yard that they free range in during...

I am in Phoenix, I am interested in buying some of your chickens, i am down to two older girls who don’t lay, they look like the black one in your pic. My son lives in Mesa. Can you please email me if you still have girls for sale. Thank you. [email protected]. (I dont check this forum...

Eggs, I found, are pretty durable, after 6 years of having chickens, i have had only two bad eggs, i do not collect them everyday either. I have a nest box but they currently dont like it, they mostly make a nest somewhere in the “foresty” part of the backyard. I sometimes find nests with up...

If you eat steak, you are already eating blood, its cooked but i assume you are cooking your eggs also. There is also blood pudding that still is very common in Ireland and the UK.

Thank you! I would like a pic! They do leave my mother in law tongue plants and aloe/agave alone, but more plants would be nice!

They like to eat some succulents, I have lost a beautiful one to their fun.

Pansies thrive in Phoenix from November to about May! They are Annuals and you are right don’t survive the heat of summer. Fortunately it’s not summer here all the time!

They stay away from tomatoes and miniature roses, but I plant them in large pots, they have enough dirt in the yard that they can have fun in so they leave them alone.

I am getting ready to turn my back house into a B&B and of course have beautiful chickens running around my backyard! I’m asking to see if anyone knows what types of flowers that chickens do not like to eat as I’m going to buy a bunch of flowers and pot them and put them around for color. I...

Its super shady in my yard as i live in an old part of town that has irrigation and I have tons of trees everywhere. Basically where the eggs were laid doesn't get any Sun all day. also I heard that chickens are very social so with the fact that the one died it might have upset them and they're...

I woke up this morning and found my previously lost chicken sitting on this pile of 13 beauties. Temps have reached over 105 daily and i know she had not laid then all in one day. Some may have been there as much as 6 days. Suggestions? ?