Arizona Chickens

[LarryPQ]

In a yogurt tub.

 

[constance]

Of course, I was deceived by the size of the chickies! It looked like a 2 or 3 gallon bucket to me

 

[squeakyballs]

Gallo del Cielo - how's the hatch?

Laree - Infectious Bronchitis. You can vaccinate for it every year, which helps cut the losses big time. egads! How much is the vaccine? I love the haboob pictures. I can't help but think of the 1930's.

Mahonri and Laree and dofnup all the other PHXers - I'm glad you survived the dust storm! Scary stuff!

azpenguin - how are the chickens?

 

[azpenguin]

TT! :

azpenguin - how are the chickens?

Cute as all get out. They're inhabiting the little bantam coop and doing well in there. But I need to put more wire on it. It was the plan all along, but we had an incident yesterday. The main flock was free ranging, and for an hour showed no interest whatsoever in the new birds. Then a couple made their way over to check things out. One of them was our Buff Wyandotte. Well, Domino (one of three birds we named after Bond girls) suddenly starts pecking through the 1x4 wire mesh at the Cochin roo. The little roo didn't take kindly to this and proceeded to show Domino what he thought of that. In a clucking frenzy of black feathers, Louis drew blood through the mesh on Domino's comb. It was easy enough to break up, because Domino was so absorbed in the fracas that I was able to just go nab the bird. Since there was blood, Domino spent the night inside in a pen. More wire Saturday morning, and a moratorium on free ranging until then.

And then guess what we heard this morning out of Domino's pen? Yep, at thirteen weeks, Domino decided that now was a good time to start crowing. Oh boy. So we are now making fun of him for getting his butt kicked by a bird one-third his size

The reports of Cochin roos having "little man syndrome" are true. Louis is great with the two bantam pullets and he doesn't mind being held by us. Hilary loves the little guy and everyone who sees him agrees - too cute!

With Jinx and Domino both showing their true gender, I have a little poem I've wrote for Arizona Feeds:

The hatcheries sometimes get it wrong
And so I do not blame you
But now two of the hens you sold me
Are saying "cock-a-doodle-doo"​

 

[mclevinson]

Could I just put in my two cents about the ACV?

It won't ward off bacteria in any solution still desirable to chickens. BUT it may alkalize the water, and that would be a good thing for any human or critter; as long as they realize the container still needs to be fresh and clean on a regular basis. That being said I prefer to use Kombucha that has been let get very sour...great vinegar sub. Kombucha has mmmany more pro-biotic cultures than you will find in ACV, and you can renew it yourself.

I'll be delighted to supply anyone who wants some with a free culture. The culture I have is amazing.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Quote:
OMGosh!!!!! I want some! I'm at 30 days now with a culture I bought online and it's not doing anything.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

TT! :

Gallo del Cielo - how's the hatch?

I just checked, nothing yet. Tomorrow is day 21. BTW, I have the IB vaccine. Maybe we can figure out a way to do all of our birds together (I want to vaccinate my neighbor's birds too).​

 

[suburbanAZchick]

Wanted to stop in and say "Hi" and introduce myself. I'm happy to see there is such an active AZ thread. I'm in NE Phx, within walking distance of Pet Food Depot.
We have 10 lovely ladies. The oldest 2 are 19 months down to the youngest 2 at 3 months old. Just got the youngest 2 on Monday. We have a mixed flock. Our ladies are quite spoiled I must say! They free range in our large grassy backyard all day. Lots of trees and shady spots. One area has misters so they can cool off as they choose, and my DH finally got a couple of fans hooked up in their coop tonight to help them stay a little cooler at night and when they are in the nesting boxes.
Looking forward to getting to know a few of my AZ neighbors!

 

[southerndesert]

Welcome from up Wickenburg way... In Morristown that is raising chickens, children, and grandchildren

 

[dofnup]

suburbanAZchick and southerndesert

ETA: or rather, welcome to the AZ forum ^_^