Arizona Chickens

[H2OKarensa]

Good Morning Arizona,
The weather is fantastic and everyone is laying....except the EE's.

My ducks are even giving me an egg a day. They don't appear interested in setting the eggs, though. I wonder if that will change in the spring.

 

[whyliewoo]

I'm a little concerned about one of my chicks. She's only about a week old, but one of her wings feathers aren't laying flat? She acts fine. She's friendly and keeps up with the others great. She's already my favorite and I don't know if this is something that corrects itself or might need intervention.

Any ideas?

 

[gckiddhouse]

Have you all read up on dogs "getting high" from licking the toads?? When my niece was living with us, her dog would go out at night looking for the toads and lick them until she was high as a kite!! No lie!! She was addicted. She would get frantic at the door every night to go out and find her fix! There is a story archived on NPR website that tells a similar story. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6376594
But, yes, can be very dangerous if the dog bites them.

This is the waterer we use. Aside from needing to be scrubbed every couple of weeks, it is absolutely no fuss. It stays clean and cool, even in the summer. Nothing can get in it. It cost about $40 at a local feed store. We have a water line to the garden which isn't too far from the coop, so my husband tied into that to provide a water line to the chicken waterer. Now that it is done. What a nice feature in the coop!!

I have not been on BYC for a while. So, hello all!! Miss the discussions!

 

[whyliewoo]

mahalo4 - Thanks for the response and the welcome.

I was looking at her wing a little closer and when I tuck the longer feathers underneath the shorter feathers her wing looks okay...but when she flaps her wings again they pop back out. That makes me think this is more about her feathers than her actual wing being tweaked?

Anyone else have any thoughts about that? Should I just leave it alone? She's an awesome chick, the most curious of humans of the bunch.

 

[ChrystalGail]

Well, hubby is out of quarantine! So far no one else is showing any symptoms, but I;m not counting my chickens before they hatch! LOL!!!

I am hoping we dodged a big one.

As far as chickens go... I just got the okay from my DH to order my Welsummer pullets!

I thought I was going to have to wait until Spring. So, to make sure they had plenty of warm buddies I also ordered Delawares, Brown Leghorns and SLWs!

They will be shipping out November 2nd!

Can you tell I'm excited? HeHe!

I hope everyone's day is going well!!!

 

[a2ms4chickens]

The Tucson Poultry, Pigeon & Fancy Fowl Club is holding their annual winter show in November 2009. The show is open to all TPPFFC members and non-members.

When: November 28- November 29, 2009

Where: Pima County Fairgrounds, Tucson AZ

Entry fee: $2.00 per bird; $6.00 per trio. Entry fees must accompany entry forms. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Large fowl will be double cooped for an additional $2.00 cooping fee.

All poultry & pigions will be judged by the APA & ABA standards. All other fowl will be judged in its own class or variety. All non-standard breeds will be judged by comparison.

The show will include a Friday social for those cooping their birds. There will be food and drinks available.

There will be a banquet Saturday evening catered by Brushfire Barbecue. $11.00 per person/ $5.50 for children 10 & under.

There will be a sale area available to all exhibitors to sell their birds for $5.00 per cage.

There will be raffles (quilt, large wire cage, bird, and various other items.

There will be games throughout the day.

There will be a junior poultry and pigeon breed show and junior showmanship.

This is just a few highlights of the show. If you would like a booklet with all the information sent to you, please pm me and I will give you the contact name, and phone#.

Hope to see you there!

Angie

ETA: Entries must be postmarked by November 18, 2009

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

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Thank you for posting this. I have thought about going this direction, but I used a hose and the water in the hose was hot ... and even if it wasn't, my water pipes must run through the cieling (yes, a novel concept for a former Utah girl) and water is hot in the summer even coming from the tap...so it seemed like the water would always be hot in this type of waterer at my house. Still wondering about it though. If I have to go out of town it would be nice to have a more automated system so I would worry less about someone else taking as good care of them as I do!

 

[Tonopah Pati]

Good Afternoon everyone. I had to make a trip into the city today. Chickens out of food, Dogs out of food, cat out of food and Mama out of food. I was so shocked when I went to the feed store. The compressed bales of pine shavings were not there. They had 2 different kinds, that were not compressed and the price went from $6.00 & $7.00 a bale for compressed, to $8.00 & $9.00 for loose and in cubic feet. There are 2 more feed stores about the same distance drive. I will check them out. You get so much more with the compressed bale. I could hardly lift them. The new ones I could carry by a corner of the bag, in one hand. Something wrong with this picture!

Strange dog I love that waterer you have. I like that the chickens can't roost on top of it. Where did you get it? Can you order them? I have never seen one like that before. I have a large and a small self water plastic pans. I quite using it, as the water is so hot, laying in the hose as well as how hot the water is coming out of the ground. It is hot enough to wash dishes and shower. I turn off my water heater in the summer. I just turned it back on this past week.

ChrystalGail, glad to hear that your DH is better and everyone else is staying well.

 

[ksukristin]

howdy! It's so cool to see all these arizona people on here

I've had my head buried in the quail section lately so it has taken me awhile to venture to the other sections...and usually I just get sucked into the recipes section yum!

so it's nice to [virtually] make your acquaintances! someday I'll read through all 170+ pages of this thread! (but not how I'm still at work shhhh don't tell the boss!)

 

[gckiddhouse]

Quote:
Thank you for posting this. I have thought about going this direction, but I used a hose and the water in the hose was hot ... and even if it wasn't, my water pipes must run through the cieling (yes, a novel concept for a former Utah girl) and water is hot in the summer even coming from the tap...so it seemed like the water would always be hot in this type of waterer at my house. Still wondering about it though. If I have to go out of town it would be nice to have a more automated system so I would worry less about someone else taking as good care of them as I do!

We ran the line under the ground which keeps the water in the line cool. That was the hard part, but as I said, once it is done, we don't have to worry about it anymore.

eta: We also have a feeder that holds 40 pounds of feed. I like things low maintanence!!