Arizona Chickens

[Arizonachicken]

We just came back from DESERTMARCY's with two blue laced red Wyandottes. I love them! I can tell already they are calm, nice hens. Her roosters were beautiful, too. I really wish I could have taken one. Anyway, I'll post pics when I get a chance. Let's see, that puts me up to 7 now...and I'm still waiting to see if MAHONRI is going to have two more for me. It's chicken math, y'know!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Good Morning

I need a vet that knows chickens. Our rooster needs to be seen. He is not completing a crow, is making a kind of twisting motion with his neck, is sort of stuffy sounding. He is behaving normally other than that, just as active, eating fine, etc.

This isn't something I want to attempt to treat myself because I don't want to lose this rooster, lots invested in this guy and we just love him.

Do any of you have a vet you would recommend? I'm in Desert Hills (far north central Phoenix), but would drive to wherever to see just the right vet.

Thank you.

Dr Daniel Burke, DVM at Cornerstone Animal Hospital in Gilbert (ray & Val Vista) is EXCELLENT!

 

[Novaleigh]

I am interested 1 or 2 wheaten roos. The sooner to get them the better (this week during school hours is perfect for me).

Mikey: I'm so sorry to hear about your sick chick, I hope she gets better soon.

In2ice: That sounds perfectly normal. They usually go through a 'mini-molt' at about that age, as they get close to full size.

I went to Mahonri's today, and picked up nine little cockerels. The older ones are two months old, and the younger are a month old. My plan, up until the time I actually saw them, had been to raise them for meat, and butcher them in a couple of months. Once I got there, I found out that four of the two month olds are Icelandics, and the four one month olds are Wheaten Ameraucanas. I'm a bit reluctant to just eat such rare and beautiful cockerels, so if anyone is interested, please let me know. If you take them in the next week or so, I'll let you have them for free. If I need to keep them longer, I'll ask for a few bucks to pay for their feed.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Have you ever seen my yard? We started with ONE chicken--Henrietta CAME with the house when we bought it. Bought FOUR chicks for the kids for Easter; in researching chick care, discovered silkies; a neighbor gave me one more from a preschool hatching; two more at the feed store demanded that we take them home with us. A year later bought TWO SILKIES and had them shipped from a breeder in Wisconsin.

I now have 3 coops in the west yard, plus several chickens as well as two geese and three muscovies tht roam there uncooped. A back porch full of cages, an open pen and a tractor in the central portion of the yard, seven tractors (most semi-permanently positioned) and six coops in the east yard. I've probably forgotten or under counted somewhere. Oh yeah, a bunch of the rocks roam the yard at will, and I have a horse stall full of chickens also.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well gang I got peepers! By this morning I have 5 hatched and looks like 3 more breaking out. So far out of the 14 from Aurorarose. One is a mystery! It had a hard time getting out of the egg, I noticed that the membrain was a bit heavy so I gentle help and the chick is alright so far BUT it was hatched with a big lump on the head! Aurorarose did you give me a mini emu?

Here is a picture of this chick. I will send a picture of the other peepers when they are fluffy and ready for pictures.

You have a silkie Probably a white. The "bump" on its head is a vaulted skull. The technical name is a cerebral hernia.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Something just occurred to me. Do you think Mothra (my aggressive 2 day old EE) is just being protective over her (his?) "flock"? Think maybe she was just trying to defend the rest of the chicks and poults she is brooded with? Because Mothra is peaceful with the other chicks and poults in her brooder. Or perhaps Mothra is just aggressive and dominant by nature? Hmmmm.... I still have so much to learn about chickens.

Chickens are closely related to velociraptors (sp?) Exhibition lines tend to be less aggressive, but there is always individuality.

 

[Arizonachicken]

Here's two quick pics of my newest additions:

 

[SherrieT]

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Mikey: I'm so sorry to hear about your sick chick, I hope she gets better soon.

In2ice: That sounds perfectly normal. They usually go through a 'mini-molt' at about that age, as they get close to full size.

I went to Mahonri's today, and picked up nine little cockerels. The older ones are two months old, and the younger are a month old. My plan, up until the time I actually saw them, had been to raise them for meat, and butcher them in a couple of months. Once I got there, I found out that four of the two month olds are Icelandics, and the four one month olds are Wheaten Ameraucanas. I'm a bit reluctant to just eat such rare and beautiful cockerels, so if anyone is interested, please let me know. If you take them in the next week or so, I'll let you have them for free. If I need to keep them longer, I'll ask for a few bucks to pay for their feed.

 

[Fuzzybird]

eHey, What is the cure and proventaitive for pasty butt? I remember something about it and silly me can't remember. Was it a bit of white vinegar in their drinking water?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

eHey, What is the cure and proventaitive for pasty butt? I remember something about it and silly me can't remember. Was it a bit of white vinegar in their drinking water?

Apple Cider Vinegar. not white