Arizona Chickens

[turkeybreeder]

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Stop, please stop! I had a healthy breakfast, and now I am HUGELY craving Guero Canelo!

Yeah! Me too! Carne Asada burro!

Some cebollitas on the side. Maybe a roasted chile or two. Look how great those guys are doing now. I heard they're opening another place up on 22nd.

in santa barbara california

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at the restaurants the food is amazing
they grilled the meat real carne asada
here in arizona they just boiled the meat
and call it carne asada, real carne asada
is gril with charcoal with give its the best
taste if anyone go's to santa barbara
visit a superica, pollo norteno,
and the best burritos in town
el cucas or tinos has the best sandwiches
all in santa barbara california

 

[mclevinson]

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There are plenty of members of this thread who will have chicks soon, and several places locally that sell older chicks right up to point-of-lay age. I know of one right here in Gilbert.

 

[mclevinson]

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I am ok with it! I'll see how I do with my new batch of chicks coming next week, and if all goes well, I'll start watching for an incubator! Well, I'll keep watching, there was one on Tucson Craigslist yesterday...

I keep forgetting to tell you I love your fish's name!

Yeah, Ferb's cool.

 

[constance]

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OF COURSE! We could hardly wait to eat our first eggs. Might be a small frittata though

 

[constance]

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Hi, welcome to the crazy AZ thread! Getting eggs from your backyard is fantastic, and the chickens are FUN. There are many people here in your area with both younger and older chickens. Some of them will chime in if they have birds available. As Mclevinson said, the feed stores often have older birds, too. I got mine at five-weeks old from the feed store for the same reasons you want older birds. The other benefit was that I knew they were pullets (young hens) and not cockerels (young roosters). It worked out well for me, but I didn't know about BYC and this AZ group at the time. Wherever you get them, you will enjoy them!

 

[constance]

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Yum!

 

[turkeybreeder]

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we have 8 ,week old
13 week old chicks
great layers of brown eggs
and year old laying hens

 

[LarryPQ]

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The specter of a flock in the grips of Marek's sickens me. I can only imagine how I would feel if it happened and I could have prevented it. Yeah, look how many backyards in the short distance between you and I have chickens already. The worst part is I'm pretty sure we're sharing the same wild bird population. Constance, you've seen my situation, how would I really quarantine them from one another anyway unless they are kept inside? I live on a postage stamp. Will my broody hen be sad if I take her chicks away?

Vaccinate the chicks and stick them back under the broody.

If you have Marek's in your flock, then they are already at risk of being exposed--or have already been exposed. Now begins the race of which will kick in first, the vaccine or Marek's.

Having chicks is a gamble anyway. Better to stack your deck if you can.

Marek's is not necessarily a death sentence for your birds. There are three forms of lesions that can occur: lesions on the throat/bronchial tubes, lesions in the eye, and lesions in the brain. Lesions on the brain is usually the fatal one: but some birds recover and have seizures or are sorta retarded from then on.

New Castle/Infectious bronchitis: 8 weeks (?) or older. (Fort Dodge) Vaccine aids in prevention of Newcastle Disease and infectious bronchitis, Massachusetts Type and Connecticut Strain. Can be given intranasally (1 drop in the nostril), intraocular (1 drop in the eye), or in the drinking water.


New Castle Lasota: 2 weeks or older. Can be given in water or aerosol form.
Recommended for administration to healthy chickens as an aid in the prevention of Newcastle disease. The vaccine is recommended for the vaccination of healthy chickens 14 days or older by drinking water administration or by aerosol spray. Spray vaccination is recommended for revaccination only.


Fowl/Pox vaccine: for chickens 1 day or older. Vaccine must be administered under the skin. Wing or back of neck OK.
(Fort Dodge) Vaccine aids in the prevention of Fowl Pox. Used in broilers, commercial layers and breeder chickens as an initial vaccination. Approved for wing web administration. For use in 1 day old chicks or older.




So--- Newborn chicks could get Marek's and Fowl box right away. The New Castle/IB should be at 8 weeks (this is the one I would go with, since I think the flock had IB last year)

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

LareePQG, thank you so much. I was just about to come around to this conclusion and I think you've helped. After reading about bio security and quarantine I realized it was going to be extremely difficult in our situation and likely to be ineffective.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

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I eat "anything" eggs!