Arizona Chickens

[squeakyballs]

Woah Laree! That looks awesome!

 

[LarryPQ]

For those of you not lucky enough to be blinded by the greenostrosity that was the old bathroom, here you are:

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Laree, that is fantabulous! Our next project is one of the bathrooms. It will be much easier than yours because it's half the size and not as nice. Well done!

 

[AZBootsie]

Laree

Beautiful!! Looks like a resort spa!

 

[LarryPQ]

The original space was a carport in the 60's, then the previous owners boxed it in and added an attached garage. Then they put in a bathroom, cut the carport in half, and stuck one of their kids in there. Over the years they put down asbestos tile, carpet on top of the tile, and then carpet on top of carpet #1. When we moved in, we tore it down to bare bones--but the bathroom remained. We used the remaining "dog room" space to enlarge the bathroom to accomodate grandma's scooter. Tomorrow I am putting up handicap handles and stuff.

 

[mahalo4]

Laree 1 word WOW!!!!

 

[Desertrat011]

Laree that looks GREAT!! I have to lay tile for my Aunt tomorrow,wished the job was done When I do my bathroom you and yours are deff. invited over!

 

[LarryPQ]

haha! Icando floor tiles, but I stink at walls.

 

[CrazyerThanAverage]

Gallo del Cielo - Howdy Broody Buddy! - I put eggs under Vader today!!

So we are only 2 days behind you and Jim. Betsy put herself in "lock-down" today (the thought of leaving the nest didn't even cross her mind), so I suspect something is happening with the three eggs she has left. Maybe she will have some cute little fuzzy surprises for us in the morning!

 

[5pinkarrows]

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Hi,
I got a mixed group of standard chickens (buff orpington, ameraucana, rhode island red, silver laced wyandotte, cuckoo maran, and now some EEs), then for bantams I have two buff brahma bantams in with the big girls (looking for a home for them since I'm concentrating on Seramas), and my Serama pen has one rooster and 4 hens. Originally since I was only going to have 1 coop, I got the two BB bantams thinking they were mille fleur d'uccles ... then they turned out to be BB bantams which is fine, but now that I have a whole pen for seramas ... I don't "need" more bantams in with my standards, and I can't put them in with the seramas since I want their eggs to be pure.
Anyway, I got some of mine at feed stores, 1 from an ameraucana breeder, and the EEs from Mahalo4 (thanks again!!!). The birds I got at the feed store so far are all pullets (but the buff brahmas were straight run and can't tell for sure). So in the gender department, the feed store did a good job. But in the "what kind of chick is it" they didn't score so well. I had a few that I thought were one thing, turned out to be something else (4 of them). So, don't really trust them about what you are getting unless each kind is in a different pen, even then they might be wrong.
If you go with someone who breeds them you might get more roos if you get them as babies, but you would know what you are getting.
I like my mix because I will get brown eggs, dark brown eggs, blue eggs, and mystery color from the EEs. Also, in my mind it would be boring to have 6 of one type ... anyway if I had 6 buff orpingtons (for example), how would I keep them straight?!?
I love the seramas because they don't normally breed true to color, so you can get all kinds of chicks from them, just having "type" is important

I told my daughter about your buff brahma bantams and she is super excited to get them. They are only a week or two older than the three we have, so it would be perfect. I live way far south, but I am working on planning a field trip to Phoenix. Think you can hang on to them for a couple more weeks for us?