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I grew up as a military rugrat, moving every year or two, and mostly living on military bases. No animals other than dogs and cats. 'Course, I was always bringing home frogs, lizards, snakes, and turtles, but couldn't keep any.

Well, the job in Colorado is a temporary (?) job, so I will be in a motel for the first week or two, then looking for something to rent. No chickens. Ultimately, I am buying 40 acres in northeast Arizona, where I'll settle when I retire (hopefully, in the next 4 to 5 years). Going to be pretty...

Well, I'm getting ready to relocate to western Colorado, so I put out the word that I had about 150 chickens, free for the taking. Most people wanted laying hens only, naturally. Then another lady called, wanted hens only, as many as I had. I mentioned that I also had Cornish X at butcher...

OK @duluthralphie, this one will get your goat up. I subscribe to a magazine called Backyard Poultry, and they have also an online thing called Countrysidenetwork.com. They have a Countryside living daily stories, etc. This morning, they posted an article called "4 things I learned about growing...

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Now y'all are making me hungry! The last couple I processed were a couple tough old roosters, so I skinned them and canned them. I'm thinking I need to pull a jar out of the pantry!

Pretty!

Check out this little girl. She is about 3 weeks old right now, and just starting to feather out. Her momma is a golden sex link, and dad is a Rhode Island Red. She is an experimental cross for my egg flock, and it looks like she will take after dad for color. Hopefully, she will be as prolific...

LOL! Me and the wife are looking at 40 acres up by St. Johns, AZ. Highs in the summer are high 80's, but lows in the winter are 20. Maybe we'll be snowbirds and just come to the Tucson house in the winter!

7:25 AM. 92 degrees. Gonna be a long one.

Anybody doing any work with light Brahmas?

Yeah, us southern types are looking at 49 C this weekend. Just installed a mister system in the chicken run this morning, seems to lower the temp by 15-20 F.

@Beekissed I think you should enter that family pic in the pic of the week contest. IMO it's a winner.

She is a good lookin mama!

Well, I guess I qualify as " hot weather chicken people" and I have a bunch of black copper Marans. The roosters seem to struggle a bit more than the hens, and I keep a close eye on them. Mine like to dig holes in the muddy areas and wallow in it like pigs, so they usually look like ****, but...

I live about 40 miles northwest of Desertchic, and dealing with the same 115 degree temps. All my birds (including 30 CX meaties!) are housed in a covered 30' x 40' chain link run, with shade cloth on the sides. I set up 2 impact sprinklers at the 2 rear (windward) corners and set them each to...

Do they develop the muffs and beards?

The one on the left a blue Ameraucana?

X2!!!