Arizona Chickens

[ca]

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And the best part? IT WORKS!

I came home yesterday to 8 eggs laying there all CLEAN and in one piece on the carpet in the tray. Somebody was really enjoying the egg taste

. But the egg eating days are over! Apparently they were laying. Not great but still. This was the coop with 20 chickens. Not bad considering that half of them are molting and the other half is just starting to lay.
I'll get notes together on the weekend and post. It's a fun and "rewarding" project.

Do you have the link to the nest boxes that roll to the back...inside the building or something? Thanks!

it's at:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=287684

 

[tball chicky]

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Do you have the link to the nest boxes that roll to the back...inside the building or something? Thanks!

it's at:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=287684

Thanks!

 

[tball chicky]

Well...last night & today have been rough.

Last night at my daughter's (10 yo) Jujitzu class, she broke her collarbone. So we spent a few hours @ the ER and got her taken care of. She of course had a pretty rought time sleeping. BUT she insisted on going to school...so off she went in her PJ's

My Serama roo, Sir Ricky, died sometime in the night. He left behind 2 wives, Miss Emma and Lady Lucy, and possibly 3 children if I can get them to hatch out.

My one, lone egg left in the frigabator didn't hatch. So today I opened the egg cause I wanted to see what happened. The air sac was still intact & the right size. Baby chick was developed normally but was turned right so that he could break the air cell. It was still alive & moving on the morning of day 19 (someone said that it was actually day 18, but no matter). So I am still wondering what happened since I am new to hatching chicks.

Let's rewind & sleep in ALL day tomorrow...

 

[nurseshelly]

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Memphis - Do you know about these folks? And is $55 the going rate for a Serama?

Seramas on CL

Hi Mikey,
I sell my Serama chicks for $15. I don't keep them to be old enough to tell which ones are SQ and which are PQ, since I don't have a big enough yard for grow out pens. Mine are smooth and frizzle, class A or B parents. If you want to see them they are at www.azseramas.com. Once they all molt, I need to get new pictures because they have matured a lot, and their chests have filled in nicely.
I do have one hen from the person on the slideshow (Priscilla), another hen from this person's friend (Mama Cass), and then two hens (Marilyn and Celiene) and Elvis from Amy Bullock (the SCNA rep for AZ). Amy sells hers for $15 for willow color legs, or $20 for yellow color legs when she has young birds available ... and then on up to hundreds, depending on frizzle or show quality. My sister in law is friends with the lady with the slide show and she is how I got so interested in Seramas. Then I started looking for other breeders, since I wanted unrelated (as much as possible) birds and found Amy too.
I have tons of chicks right now, suddenly now that the weather is better I'm getting 100% hatches - so 4 - 6 a week! It's really crazy. I have a lady coming to pick up 4, and then I have two more that just hatched and another 3 going into lockdown today. In the summer we were just getting 2 here and 2 there. If we keep getting so many we might have to not put so many in the incubator!
Oh, it's so cute! Celiene has been super broody, so we let her have two day old chicks for the first time, and she is SO happy! She is such a good mommy, taking them all over for food, and keeps them tucked up under her wings so cute

We had been afraid the hen wouldn't accept them before, so never tried it. We're going to do it every time we have a broody now

 

[nurseshelly]

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Oh I'm sorry to hear about your daughter!!! I hope she's feeling better soon!!!

Also so sorry to hear about Sir Ricky

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I have had some turned the wrong way too, and it stinks to know they were okay a day before, and when you realize they aren't going to pip it's too late! I've never tried to help one that hasn't pipped.
If mine start to zip and then progress stalls (either it's been hours after they started zipping, they start not being as active, or the membrane changes color / shrink wrap), I'll help them by carefully removing part of the top of the shell, and any dried membrane so they can move in the egg, then wrap in a bunch of warm wet paper towels leaving a hole for the baby's face so they can breathe. It's enough that then they can hatch themselves, but it still takes them long enough that they absorb their yolk completely.

Oh, you know your hens can still lay fertile eggs for 3 or 4 weeks after the last time they were with Sir Ricky, so you could still try to incubate them.

 

[Tracydr]

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[Gallo del Cielo]

tball chicky,

I hope tomorrow is better.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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[Arizonachicken]

Ok, I know he's not a chicken, but I had to share my 10 week old...

 

[Mikey D]

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So you're saying I don't need the heat lamp on now? I'm such a wimp...