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  1. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Very good point. Do you think it would make any difference is using a deep litter kinda situation (meaning no dirt but maybe a bunch of organic litter - Chip Drop comes to mind when it comes to large, free quantities of the stuff)? And that arches back to something I looked up and planned on...
  2. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Would it be possible to not dig, but instead add? So you'd put the run on the floor, bottom hardware cloth being on ground surface, then you'd add floor/litter inside the run on x inches (might mean that your run would likely need some siding all around its base, so that the elevated...
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I also didn't factor in what jxp was saying about integration :/ In any case, I have no egg to hatch but I am following along all your efforts and feeling invested - here is to hope it all goes well with the eggs that made it so far! <3
  4. NestingMillenial

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I mean, I wasn't laughing at Lady Lisa's eggs not making it, but the "solo chick hatch" is a bit of a funny thing - I'm rooting for this underdog for sure!! Didn't start with the best conditions but making it through! 💪
  5. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    That makes sense!
  6. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Okies, I'll keep an eye out for what you may have in a few months then :) And I am not necessarily looking for lap chickens per se, but a chicken I don't have to corner to get a hold of would be great! My previous hens were not afraid of me but were not into being held and having to handle them...
  7. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    My tanks are full again <3 (I need bigger tanks probably) and my one and only (for now) storm water basin has been kept full - I dug it myself so it's a bit of a slow progress, but happy to see it being useful already! We're having steady rain here since yesterday night. Feels very autumnal...
  8. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    We got a good rain yesterday night, not enough to turn the streets to washes and I think it was most on the west side of town, but the soil at my place is still a bit moist this morning, so not too bad!
  9. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Wow, thank you so much for this and all the links too: so informative!! I appreciate it A LOT!! <3 Good point about the watering cups allowing them to wet their wattles, I'll do that. And same for having emergency cages on hands to get them inside - thank you, that's an easy thing to plan for...
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Good suggestion! I definitely planned to use a "poop board" but had not thought of making it a full tray with sand - thanks for the nudge! I'm sure that will make it all easier. Thank you everyone for suggestions about the niche too! I am not too concerned about storage (the whole adjacent shed...
  11. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    That's awesome, thanks so much Emma (and for letting us all in on the FB secret code too! That's hilarious!!) Whenever I am done prepping the coop and I am ready to get chicks, I thought I'd use the heated blanket method (something like this) but is it even necessary in AZ, outside of the dead...
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Thank you guys! So there's actually a tarp on that right side, that I can roll up or down: great to know this is likely enough, then! For the litter, and cleaning below the roosts, that's a good idea. I had thought I might leave half of it in place with sand and ash as a dust bath for them, but...
  13. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Ohh, thank you for telling me about those - they are striking! Is the person still selling them? The most recent posts/comments seem a bit dated by now. Let me know if you find a place that has them, I'd be excited to try a breed created locally <3
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    How to humanely and quickly cull a chick???

    I don't have a super long chicken experience, but unfortunately one was sick and I have had to research that question early on: short answer is swift decapitation. If that's a chick, probably a large chef knife would work...
  15. NestingMillenial

    Arizona Chickens

    Hi everyone! Just moved to Tucson last year and prepping to get some chickens next spring (right now I am just revamping a former catio into what will be my coop/run). A few friends and I collectively had 5 hens in central Texas before I moved, and I built their coop back then, but I left soon...
  16. NestingMillenial

    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Right, I should have included pictures! Apologies. Ok, so this is me standing in the middle of my coop/run/ex-catio and looking at the back - I'll unpave it, and get rid of what I assume was the cats litter box at the end there. Then I'm thinking of making a ladder roost in the corner (sketched...
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Hi all, I'm hoping you can give me ideas on how to use a little pre-existing feature in my run/coop. I have recently moved and I am updating what I believe was a large catio into a coop/run. The catio shares a wall with an adjacent small shed, so the previous owner cut a little window in that...
  18. NestingMillenial

    How do you cull chickens?

    Agreed. I already made my case above but, to sum up, if going for a kill cone method, just decapitate - the severing of the spinal cord renders the bird unconscious in seconds, while bleeding out will take 3-4 minutes of pain before reaching unconsciousness, for a chicken.
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    Mycoplasma..? What do I do next?

    I actually asked them and the poultry lab of my State's vet lab is closed for the long weekend (they just processed the swab test I sent them in time, but the necropsy wouldn't have made it un time). If we are not able to get the other symptomatic pullet through and she also dies, we will send...
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    Mycoplasma..? What do I do next?

    I think that's where we're headed. The vet from the state lab said that he wouldn't expect frequent relapses. He also told me that MG strains from poultry are mostly different than those found in wild birds, and while some crossing over does happen, it is not overly frequent and is usually...
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