Arizona Chickens

[Enjaytoo]

Oh my, this is sooooo tempting...... I miss my pickup truck

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/grd/1454502365.html

 

[Mahonri]

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I bought a bag there (at the Feed Barn) today... and yes, it was 26%... also the Stock Shop had a purina at the same percentage so I bought a bag there... we'll see which one is better when I mix it w/ feed for different pens. I'm so tempted to run down to Ray's and buy a couple bags of their game bird feed... it's less expensive than some layer pellets and the protein % is the same... at least that's what they said on the phone. I also think I'll take a quick trip to Tempe... it's actually the closest feed store of all of them two me (w/ Western Ranchman as a close 2nd) and buy some DE..
Amazing the difference in price between Pratts and Tempe Feed & Tack.

 

[Enjaytoo]

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It was reallllllllly realllllllllly hard to delete that. Thanks for the encouragement.

AzNessa, now I REALLY want to know what it was. But good job anyway

 

[Mahonri]

Vanessa... wish I would have known your RIR were laying... I would probably have stopped and picked one or two up when I was up there in your neighborhood.

Just as well, my wife would have had a fit.

 

[ArizonaNessa]

For some reason they feathered with no tails so I was trying really hard to hold them until their tails feathered better. You know how I am about my birds being fully feathered but these all thought they were related to Araucanas I suppose

Beautiful except they looked rumpless. Anyway I increased their protein and they are coming right along now. Boy the turkeys got mad when I moved the reds in there

 

[AkTomboy]

Well Im comming to see yall

here in a week and a half or so. So needless to say I have been looking at yalls craigs list and saw this

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/grd/1456366705.html


A coop can that can hold 3 chickens and has a laying area and access area to the eggs for $50 so I thought I would pass it along.

Also if anyone has any news of any Great Pyr pups can you please let me know. Thanks

 

[LarryPQ]

Holy COW! For those of you who don't know...I live by PV mall, about 1-2 miles from the little mountains, maybe 3-4 miles from the bigger preserve. These are in the MIDDLE of Phoenix. Our houses are horse property, but most of the neighborhoods are regular city lots, most with 6 foot block walls.

WELL- this morning the neighbors turkey was making lots of noise, so I looked to see if it was in my yard again..and HOLY CRUMBUM there was a coyote on top of her shed! It dropped off and then jumped over her 6 foot block wall into the alley! I ran screaming through our yard, yelling at the nieghbor to wake up & check her birds. I had our chickies locked up, but the dogs were inside and the kids were in the yard. My husband hears me, stops changing the baby's icky diaper (which created problems later

), and goes tearing through the alley. He made sure they coyote didn't go after the other neighbor's flock (no block wall). We didn't see it again.

It was crazy! Apparently this is the SECOND time the neighbor behind us has seen the coyote in her yard. She didn't bother to tell anyone--- or keep the birds inside the run. Yesterday was the baby's party, and her roos sat on top of the shed and scolded all the kids in the bouncy.

No free-ranging for the chickies for a while! or ever.

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

Wow - What a crazy day!

For a short time I lived near Tatum and Shea. It was when I first moved to Phoenix. At the time I was driving a tiny convertible, a mazda miata. I moved down from SLC. There were NO coyotes in SLC where I lived. One night I am driving home down Shea in my tiny car with the top down. .. and there on SHEA BLVD, a very big road, a coyote walks right across the street. I felt very exposed and quite shocked. Of course, I have heard a few stories since then, but it stunned me at the time and I felt very vulnerable in my low to the ground open car!

Anyway, I am glad you and your birds are safe. I would be glad to have a neighbor like you and your DH that would alert me to such danger lurking around.

I sometimes wonder how the early settlers survived.

 

[cap1717]

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I have lived in a whole bunch of neighborhoods (mostly east central to north central, Phx & Scottsdale, and realize that coyotes are present in the neighborhood, even if you don't see them on a regular basis. They tend to be nocturnal. I think that those who are dilligent about keeping their birds securely cooped at night will have little problem in most neighborhoods, but there are always exceptions. . . a very dry year will leave the predators hungry. . . the closer you are to a mountain preserve, the more likely you are to have them around, etc.

 

[Triple T]

OMG! This is insane!

Yesterday at 2 pm I was headed out the front door to go around the house to check on the critters and the garden and had my little dog with me. As I came off the porch at the drive, there is a coyote standing in my side yard watching us. I grabbed Bear up in my arms, before he even saw the coyote, and chased the coyote out of the yard and it headed north on the street. We live 2 houses north of the back gate of the Legacy Golf Resort. At night we can hear what sounds like several dozen coyotes yipping over by the golf course.

SO, right now my DH is in the shop building me an enclosed coop so I can lock my chickens up securely at night. They have been fine in their totally fenced pen with a cedar limb to roost on, but now we feel we had better close them up more. The guineas will make enough racket if it gets near them to wake even the soundest sleeper - I hope!

Laree I am so glad you chased the coyote away without any bird lose for you or your neighbors. I guess they are really desperate to be coming so boldly into heavily populated areas-and in broad daylight!!