Arizona Chickens

[southerndesert]

Photo for Mrs_Ed.... Per Request.

 

[The Critter Place]

Oh! How sweet!

I like the little golden/tan ones!
And a teddy bear to boot. lol...

I used to have a stuffed animal for baby birds, I need to find a few new ones.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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Here is more info on sex links:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208

Thank you!
I don't recall seeing white chicks. They had like 5 diff. breeds in one brooder.

It may have been RIL? and something...??
I could call them if it's important to know the breeds. I told him to point out the sex links and it had to be a hen, and she's the color he pointed out. lol...

It looks like a sex-link with the white wing feathers. Not a RIR or production red. They probably had just pullets and didn't have any white cockerels. That's the beauty of sex-links, you can tell the pullets right away...almost all of the time.

 

[The Critter Place]

Cool!
Thank you!

I do love her color! Now hoping the black is a girl.

 

[LarryPQ]

So Western Ranchman had been waiting on their first batch of chickies for the season.

Waiting and waiting and waiting.

The chicks got lost in the mail for 2 days! Poor chickies. I spent some time helping with triage, but I dunno if the croakers were going to perk back up.


...of the non-obvious croakers: I bought 10. I need to replace the 4 Orloff roos I had special ordered (to be girls!!!) Pastrymama took 2 of the original 6 orloffs, so we have 6 roos between us. IT SUCKS. I was soooooo stoked for Orloffs. *sniff*

OH WELL. I bought a bunch of EEs, a light brahma, and a black sex that accidentally hopped in the box.

No pictures until I know there are no croakers.

 

[Mikey D]

Here is the progress on the feeder.

It's going to hang so I didn't need a flat bottom. I also...

- put a double angle on the back/bottom to get the feed closer to the front. That made the cross-section (side view) rather thin so I put an angle between the upper front and the lip-insert (That's a Gallo term - think hole through which chickies feed) to beef it up a tad.

- increased the total height from 16" to 24" and the width from 16" to 20" - hoping to be able to dump a full 50lb bag into it at once.

- angled the top so the chickies can't roost on it (stole that idea from one of you's guys in another post about waterers)

I know Gallo's weight calculations just went out the window with the change in materials and lip insert / cover size. I used his geometry for the hole locations and will use it for the linkages because I know they work. I figure on adding weight to the cover or treadle to make it work properly.

I am hopefully going to weld it together this weekend. Hope ya like it!

 

[The Critter Place]

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Oh,
I'm so sorry to hear the little ones had such a rough time! 2 days is awful! I hope they make it!

 

[The Critter Place]

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Other than having to lean over to figure it out,

it looks great!
I was thinking it looked kinda big, but then saw the 50lbs and it made sense.. For a minute I thought it might just be me and my headache today.

 

[pastrymama]

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just so you know, i am sooooooo stealing that brahma, so you just pedal your sweet little hiney back to WR and get a few more. they are like lay's, i can't just steal one! besides, that would leave you with nine, and with our record, NINE ROOS!!! and that silky is looking suspiscious

i need to take a pic of the furry little chubacca and see what the concensus is.

 

[Mikey D]

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Other than having to lean over to figure it out,

it looks great!
I was thinking it looked kinda big, but then saw the 50lbs and it made sense.. For a minute I thought it might just be me and my headache today.

I know it's kind of a weird perspective, but I rotated the pict before I put it up here and it was worse. It's only taped together so I could mock it up, so I can't orient it properly for ya.

Hope your headache feels better soonest.