Arizona Chickens

[nurseshelly]

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I'm so temped to add these to the chicks we're getting next week.
Can you tell me more about them? They'll be small, right? Can they live with the big girls? Do you have any idea what they'll look like?

They should be small, Flo their mom is a blue silkie, and their dad Elvis is a class B serama rooster. They are small enough that I'm grinding their food, just like the baby seramas. They hatched at the end of last week. They are the fuzziest chicks I've ever had! The blue one does not photograph well, but is about the cutest chick I've ever seen in person

Super fluffy! The blue one looks like it will have muffs and a beard, but no crest so far, and a few feathers on it's legs. The white/yellow one has lots of feathers on it's legs, but doesn't look like it will have muffs/beard/crest.

They would be fine with full size as long as you wait until about 12 weeks to integrate. I have my silkie and my serama all out together. The seramas have their "own" coop, but everyone is in and out of each other's coop.

We weren't really planning on incubating any of Flo's eggs, since we don't have a silkie roo. But then our seramas were broody, they quit being broody, and then my DH thought Flo's eggs were two serama eggs and put them in the incubator while I was at work. I decided to go ahead and continue to incubate, since it was a few days before I saw them and they were already developing.

 

[Mikey D]

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[Beckyhsinglsc]

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I'm so temped to add these to the chicks we're getting next week.
Can you tell me more about them? They'll be small, right? Can they live with the big girls? Do you have any idea what they'll look like?

They should be small, Flo their mom is a blue silkie, and their dad Elvis is a class B serama rooster. They are small enough that I'm grinding their food, just like the baby seramas. They hatched at the end of last week. They are the fuzziest chicks I've ever had! The blue one does not photograph well, but is about the cutest chick I've ever seen in person

Super fluffy! The blue one looks like it will have muffs and a beard, but no crest so far, and a few feathers on it's legs. The white/yellow one has lots of feathers on it's legs, but doesn't look like it will have muffs/beard/crest.

They would be fine with full size as long as you wait until about 12 weeks to integrate. I have my silkie and my serama all out together. The seramas have their "own" coop, but everyone is in and out of each other's coop.

We weren't really planning on incubating any of Flo's eggs, since we don't have a silkie roo. But then our seramas were broody, they quit being broody, and then my DH thought Flo's eggs were two serama eggs and put them in the incubator while I was at work. I decided to go ahead and continue to incubate, since it was a few days before I saw them and they were already developing.

Can they grow up with big chicks if the big chicks are 2 weeks behind them?
I don't suppose you know their gender?
My daughter has always wanted a little chicken.

 

[nurseshelly]

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They should be small, Flo their mom is a blue silkie, and their dad Elvis is a class B serama rooster. They are small enough that I'm grinding their food, just like the baby seramas. They hatched at the end of last week. They are the fuzziest chicks I've ever had! The blue one does not photograph well, but is about the cutest chick I've ever seen in person

Super fluffy! The blue one looks like it will have muffs and a beard, but no crest so far, and a few feathers on it's legs. The white/yellow one has lots of feathers on it's legs, but doesn't look like it will have muffs/beard/crest.

They would be fine with full size as long as you wait until about 12 weeks to integrate. I have my silkie and my serama all out together. The seramas have their "own" coop, but everyone is in and out of each other's coop.

We weren't really planning on incubating any of Flo's eggs, since we don't have a silkie roo. But then our seramas were broody, they quit being broody, and then my DH thought Flo's eggs were two serama eggs and put them in the incubator while I was at work. I decided to go ahead and continue to incubate, since it was a few days before I saw them and they were already developing.

Can they grow up with big chicks if the big chicks are 2 weeks behind them?
I don't suppose you know their gender?
My daughter has always wanted a little chicken.

I think they would be fine growing up with the other chicks. I've put new babies in with one month old (or older) babies without a problem. They are in with Phyllis (serama) right now, she's 2 months old, and she has been the "mommy" in the brooder to all of the younger chicks. Even when she was only a few weeks old, she would gather up the new babies and put her wings over them to protect them. I imagine she will be the queen of broody when she's old enough to have her own chicks.
These two hatched right when I sold the last two little Serama babies, and she was so happy to have them!

 

[Mikey D]

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Meg - do you have any of more of the hardware cloth left? Also, Walt reminded me that we forgot our pickax ((twice))

Yes, I have a few feet left, and yes, pickax!

Cool. Someone around here (who shall remain nameless) wants a brooder and I figured I'd help out. can I swing by Thursday?

 

[Mikey D]

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LMAO!

 

[Mikey D]

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OMG!!! I get backon the thread to THIS??? Never.laughed so.hard.in.my.life, and as a sic-fi geek I am deeply flattered. Now I go to shop my closet for urban camo fairy clothing...
Edited to correct auto correct.

I have some of my male Video Game Development students that wear urban camo fairy clothing...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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A few simple, relatively inexpensive ideas.

1) get a drop pen and line with either chicken wire, cage wire or plastic hardware cloth. You can also wire underneath it. This is a drop pen:

They cost about $25-$30 at feed stores, and easily fold for storage. Openings are too big for chicks, though.

2) get a roll of cage wire from Lowes and fashion a round pen. you can cover the top with just about anything. Wire underneath if you like. For the round pen, simply unroll the wire and form it into a circle of adequate size. About 10' forms a nice sized circle for 4 birds. Slightly over lap the edges, then use zip ties to fasten together at top bottom and a few places in the middle. The 1x1 cage wire is a good size for this--small enough openings that only the smallest bantams will escape and large enough that you can use plant stakes through openings across from each other for roosts, or in the top for a semi-permanent roof.

3) get wire grid shelving units and wire tie together to form a pen. You need to find the kind that have very small openings, not the ones that are about 1.5 inches. At least for chicks..

 

[tightwad]

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A few simple, relatively inexpensive ideas.

1) get a drop pen and line with either chicken wire, cage wire or plastic hardware cloth. You can also wire underneath it. This is a drop pen:
http://www.randallburkey.com/images/14019.gif They cost about $25-$30 at feed stores, and easily fold for storage. Openings are too big for chicks, though.

2) get a roll of cage wire from Lowes and fashion a round pen. you can cover the top with just about anything. Wire underneath if you like. For the round pen, simply unroll the wire and form it into a circle of adequate size. About 10' forms a nice sized circle for 4 birds. Slightly over lap the edges, then use zip ties to fasten together at top bottom and a few places in the middle. The 1x1 cage wire is a good size for this--small enough openings that only the smallest bantams will escape and large enough that you can use plant stakes through openings across from each other for roosts, or in the top for a semi-permanent roof.

3) get wire grid shelving units and wire tie together to form a pen. You need to find the kind that have very small openings, not the ones that are about 1.5 inches. At least for chicks..

Those are great ideas! I'll have to call Mesa Feed to see if they carry the drop pens. Thanks so much!

 

[tightwad]

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Is there enough room in the kennel until they're old enough to be integrated? I decided to put mine in a plastic kennel that fits our shepherd but it won't be big enough for more than a few weeks.

It depends on how big it is. I have had 4 chicks in mine until 12 weeks before. I added a branch as a perch to keep them off of the food and water when they were older too (helped a lot!). My kennel is the 42 inches long by 28 inches wide one.

Thanks! My kennel isn't that long. Hmmm, maybe the crib on craigslist would work.