Arizona Chickens

[Mahonri]

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She looks ready to me. But I have one that age that hasn't started yet. Disappointing.

 

[Mahonri]

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Same here. Day 21...at least by my calculations. No peeping, no nothing

Kids are starting to really get concerned. I hope this experience is not a disappointment for them. I will wait until tomorrow & see if anything happens.

Dang. Good luck. I've had my share of disappointing hatches.

 

[Arizonachicken]

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She looks ready to me. But I have one that age that hasn't started yet. Disappointing.

Ok, as long as she LOOKS ready...and one of the EEs was in the nesting box the other day. I think I'm as anxious as the kids to find the blue eggs!

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

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Looks like she is ready. Have she squatted for you yet? Seems when mine started squatting, they started to lay 2-3 weeks after that.

 

[Tracydr]

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I think he may have Marek's disease.

 

[Mikey D]

I think she is saying, "Papa, it's time to build me a roost!"

What do you think?

 

[Tracydr]

Bob's Henhouse :

Had a good moving day today, moved an 8X10 coop, a smaller former rabbit hutch (4X10) 20 some odd ducks, all but 2 of the remaining roosters and hens, all the potted plants and trees, and misc stuff. Hope to get all but the big coop out of the back yard, (will have to take it apart and move in pieces) tomorrow. It feels good to actually SEE some progress. This has been going on for WAY too long! ! ! Did I mention that my back is killing me?

Wow! I went shopping. 55 lbs of Roma tomatoes, 10 lbs of pickling cukes, some asparagus to pickle. Strawberries 50 cents a pound. About 70 lbs of meat, counting a 20 lb turkey. I had to get a second cart and go back through at the Superstition Market. At Safeway, the manager had to override the sales amount because I saved $138 while only spending $179!
I will be a canning maniac tomorrow. I already wrapped the meat in butcher paper and froze it. Might have to go back for more rump roast to make into hamburger at 2.29 and grab another turkey at .52 cents a pound (limited to one with 25 pound purchase).
I can feed turkey to the dogs if we get tired of it.

 

[Tracydr]

Bob's Henhouse :

Good grief! 100 and what degrees a week and a half ago, and FROST on the roof this morning!?! My thermometer says it's 43 degrees, but that is definitely frost. Now I have to worry about all the plants I left out in the yard yesterday at the new house.

Thanks Bill, yes, when you are a hoarder

moving is a chore.


edited cuz, umm, yeah.

Good thing my silky chicks had some fatties in with them to keep them warm!

frost can happen up to about 40 degrees from heat loss on surfaces. I don't remember exactly how but it's energy loss.​

 

[Tracydr]

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[Tracydr]

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Looks like she is ready. Have she squatted for you yet? Seems when mine started squatting, they started to lay 2-3 weeks after that.

My Egyptian Fayoumis were born in beginning of June. The description says extremely early maturers, lay as early as 3.5 months. Nada. Although, the last week, their combs did get huge and flopped to the side.
Leghorns, same thing.
Hamburgs and buttercups actually look the closest. Buttercups are really red in the face and combs have really developed. The rooster has been breeding ( right, he wishes, at all of 12 oz or whatever he is,

) and a lot of the bunch, even the EEs are checking out the nest boxes.
Still only getting banty eggs.

They are how many weeks now? They have a light.
The bantys, at least, are laying almost every day, even though OEGBs aren't usually very good layers.
It would be nice, though, to get some eggs that are more than just a teaser.

Next spring, if any of my silkies or bantys goes broody ( right, like that would happen!), does anyone have some other bantam breeds that they may have hatching eggs for? I've been looking at banty leghorns, brahmas, Cochins, and especially Dorkings. Any of the bantam breeds, especially some of the more unusual ones but not hooded breeds like Polish.