Arizona Chickens

[pastrymama]

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mikey

those look super cute! but alas, my new love are the silkies. super easy for the monsters, i mean children to handle and cuddle. and it says that the app spitz like to fly right into my beagle's MOUTH!!!!!! silkies can't fly, not one bit. no doggie danger of those flying out of the covered chicken run.

ETA that Mahonri's ameraucanas like to try to fly thru bird netting to eat all the lettuce out of my garden. silly ameraucanas. i started pulling it out of the garden and giving it to them in hopes they would stop. they demand more. i bought more plants yesterday as they cleaned me out. can't believe i am gardening for my chickens

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

Well It has been crazy here! My grandma died, expected. So we had a funeral one week over the break, then christmas, and then my sister got married. I got the cold crap going around and then one saturday I got a migraine. I think it has been 12 year since I had one of those suckers!!! For those one here...nurseshelly, and pastrymama...I am so sorry. I forgot how dibilitating they are. I had the 4.5 year old taking care of me in a dark, quiet room, but she also had to take care of the 2 year old..AKA Monster!! I came out at around noon and the 4.5 year old was crashed out on the couch and the 2 year old was running around butt naked had a cornbread picnic with the 4 dogs!!! I really dont know how any one can hand migraines on a weekly basis!!!!

As for chickens I am looking for BWA or WA americana eggs or chicks or chickens and roos if anyone has any available. Please PM.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. The two reds in the front look different from the PRs I got from Ideal at the same time as you did.
They are lighter in color and they seem to be much bigger and more developed in the comb/wattle area. I would guess those two are Red Broilers.
Don't they look different from the red in the back? Mine look like your red in the back.
All in all great looking chickens, though. Good job!

 

[Mikey D]

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mikey

those look super cute! but alas, my new love are the silkies. super easy for the monsters, i mean children to handle and cuddle. and it says that the app spitz like to fly right into my beagle's MOUTH!!!!!! silkies can't fly, not one bit. no doggie danger of those flying out of the covered chicken run.

ETA that Mahonri's ameraucanas like to try to fly thru bird netting to eat all the lettuce out of my garden. silly ameraucanas. i started pulling it out of the garden and giving it to them in hopes they would stop. they demand more. i bought more plants yesterday as they cleaned me out. can't believe i am gardening for my chickens

Yeah, I'm ever so slightly concerned about the flying thing but figure wing clipping would solve it if it becomes necessary.

 

[Mikey D]

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condolences and congrats! I guess it all evens out?

 

[Mikey D]

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I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. The two reds in the front look different from the PRs I got from Ideal at the same time as you did.
They are lighter in color and they seem to be much bigger and more developed in the comb/wattle area. I would guess those two are Red Broilers.
Don't they look different from the red in the back? Mine look like your red in the back.
All in all great looking chickens, though. Good job!

While I was happy with Kev's diagnosis - I'm pretty sure the small one in the back (darker) is a different breed.

She is also the most skittish one of the lot. I've never been able to hold her.

Well, here's hoping they lay well!

( I always wanted a Buff Orp too...)

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

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condolences and congrats! I guess it all evens out?

We kept calling it our own 2 weddings and a funeral movie! It is always nice to see family, for any occasion.

 

[Mahonri]

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mikey

those look super cute! but alas, my new love are the silkies. super easy for the monsters, i mean children to handle and cuddle. and it says that the app spitz like to fly right into my beagle's MOUTH!!!!!! silkies can't fly, not one bit. no doggie danger of those flying out of the covered chicken run.

ETA that Mahonri's ameraucanas like to try to fly thru bird netting to eat all the lettuce out of my garden. silly ameraucanas. i started pulling it out of the garden and giving it to them in hopes they would stop. they demand more. i bought more plants yesterday as they cleaned me out. can't believe i am gardening for my chickens

I made the mistake of letting the girls out of the coop for a few minutes to free range on the grass tonight before bed time... they went right for the garden... so I had to use a broom and move them back into the coop. They really do love their greens.

 

[Mahonri]

Memphis, I no longer have any roos of breeding age so it will probably be next year before I'll be selling hatching eggs again.

I figure I'll pick the best roo and keep him for breeding and then I'll have to put him in a box everynight and let him out in the late AM

I'm putting in at least 24 pure bred w/bw eggs in the incubator on Wednesday... should be fun to see what I end up with.

 

[Mikey D]

Pastry PM'd me with a very well timed and incredibly well meaning "please look at this thread"

It is on Avian Lymphoid Leukosis and apparently Cornish crosses, Freedom Rangers, App Spitz and many other fancy breeds.

ALL thread pg 5


I've been into that thread - the most pertinent info was posted by the moderator Allen wranch who seems to be the resident App Spitz guru:
I still have and breed Spitzhaubens and don't worry about LLV anymore. The first time I became familiar with it was when an Ameraucana hen died of LLV the first year I had chickens. This was 8 years ago and none of the rest of my layers (not counting Spitz) have it that I am aware of.

It is not necessarily a death sentence. I still have some of my original Spitzhaubens and they are fat and sassy girls. They carry the virus, but are not affected by it. Only 4 or 5 of all of the Spitzhaubens I have raised have died of the disease, and they usually were older before the tumors grew enough to cause death.

Again, there are two types of LLV, and only the "J" virus is horizonitally transmitted. Most infected birds have the more common vertically transmitted virus.

I would not let LLV determine whether you get Spitzhaubens or not. As mentioned earlier, there are other chicken breeds that have it. Just be careful when you hatch Spitz eggs and not hatch other breed eggs with them.


I still think I'm going to get them - with the little chance of horizontal transmission I'm figuring I'm going to be OK.

If I ever wind up with hatching eggs - this maybe a concern & i think you would have to hatch them seperately.

Is this a biosecurity issue large enough that anyone would be hesitant from coming over to see my chickies? I really am interested in your answer.



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