Arizona Chickens

[Sonoran Silkies]

I had a wonderful peach tree but a peach bore got to it and it died. It was producing 100s of lbs of peaches every year (3rd week of May) before it's demise. I also had four different varieties of apples (June apples) but the bugs got them too... same with the Asian Apple/Pear. All I have left is an ornamental orange. (worthless) and a yellow grapefruit. I eat it but it's sour.

Malathion should be sprayed every March and September for trees that produce pits. (peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines etc...). (I ran an orchard in Utah as a kid) I just got lazy one year and didn't get it sprayed like I should have..

Kevin, good luck with the hatch... I have 26 in the bator right now for my Ground Hog's Day hatch I'll be locking down Sunday evening and putting the eggs in modified cartons for hatching in my Brinsea Octogon..

I've done a LOT of hatches and I've found that here in AZ, we can do well with dry hatches.

Days 1-18, I keep the humidity right around 30%
Day's 19-Hatch I up it dramatically to 70%.

Last hatch I got 18 of 19 that remained at lockdown.

Have a fantastic weekend y'all...

sometime tomorrow I'll post a pic of my almost featherless Icelandic chick. Real weird looking!

I've never done any sort of spraying for my fruit trees. Well, the first year the apple tree got blight, and I cut it back below the blight and covered it with whatever it was that my Western Gardening book recommended. But nothing else. I have dusted the grapes with sevin and some ornamental plants that had bugs of one sort or another, but never the fruit trees. The grapefrut tree is huge, as is the pear (some sort of asian pear, supposedly). The strawberry guava is still small, but produced a fair amount of fruits last year, the pomegranite had tons. Nectarine, plum and apricot are still too new, although I did get a couple of plums. The lemon tree (improved meyer--YUM!) had tons of huge lemons.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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PM me and I will send the name of our gardener; he is awesome at planting trees Alternatively, dig a few shovelfuls every day for a week and you will have your hole.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Mikey D- That is aweful. I would call Ideal and at least they may refund your money. Was it the app spitz that died? If so I don't need all 6. just let me know.

On a happy note...The poultry show is Feb 11th and I am driving 4.5 hours to go to it. We should have a meeting place or a certain color of shirt to wear (or mikey's BYC gang sign) so we know who each other is. Who all is going??

You'll find me at the sign-in desk much of the time. Long hair that used to be somewhere between light brown and blonde; now its mostly grey.

I will continue to accept entries until we run out of cages, and we have a ways to go before that. If you want a show book or entry form let me know and I will email one to you.

 

[pastrymama]

Mikey D- That is aweful. I would call Ideal and at least they may refund your money. Was it the app spitz that died? If so I don't need all 6. just let me know.

On a happy note...The poultry show is Feb 11th and I am driving 4.5 hours to go to it. We should have a meeting place or a certain color of shirt to wear (or mikey's BYC gang sign) so we know who each other is. Who all is going??

i am going to the show and taking the twins and the boy. i'll be the mom yelling at her 3 kids to "get back here!" "no, I am not buying you any chickens." and then......temper tantrums!

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

i am going to the show and taking the twins and the boy. i'll be the mom yelling at her 3 kids to "get back here!" "no, I am not buying you any chickens." and then......temper tantrums!

That is why to I told the husband and the kids they were not invited! The are going on the trip but they wil be staying and visiting his crazy family, A double bonus. I miss out on family time and I get to hang out with chickens and cool chicken people.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

That is why to I told the husband and the kids they were not invited! The are going on the trip but they wil be staying and visiting his crazy family, A double bonus. I miss out on family time and I get to hang out with chickens and cool chicken people.

HA that is hilarious! Sounds like my association with my inlaws.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

Mahonri, Gallo, and all you other fruit tree experts, are the apple trees suppose to lose all their leaves? I was thinking yes but my Golden Dorsette never does. Last year we purposely removed all the leaves in hopes of getting more blossoms with new leaves. It only requires 250 chill hours, one would think it would lose its leaves first.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

You'll find me at the sign-in desk much of the time. Long hair that used to be somewhere between light brown and blonde; now its mostly grey.

I will continue to accept entries until we run out of cages, and we have a ways to go before that. If you want a show book or entry form let me know and I will email one to you.

Is this an all day thing or only certain hours? State fair grounds is it? General cost?

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

I think it is an all day thing...or at least that is what I am telling my husband!!!

 

[pimachickens]

I know it's late in coming (just catching up after a couple of days), but I'm so sorry Mikey!