Arizona Chickens

[Sonoran Silkies]

All my babies are growing!!!

6.5 weeks old and 7.5 weeks old.


my grandson Cooper

Save that top photo for his senior year high school yearbook! It is absolutely adorable. (The bottom pic is cute, too

)

 

[Fuzzybird]

Does one have to be concerned about cocidia in chickens over 5 months? I have seen a bit of that orangey color in some of the chicken poop. What about eating the eggs? I can't say who is doing the pooping tho for sure. Just see it here and there.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Hey you know it is almost impossible to candle those green eggs! Exspecially the olive ones! I guess I'll just put them in lockdown and hope for the best this Wed.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Does one have to be concerned about cocidia in chickens over 5 months? I have seen a bit of that orangey color in some of the chicken poop. What about eating the eggs? I can't say who is doing the pooping tho for sure. Just see it here and there.

Yes, chickens of any age can get coccidiosis. However orange poop does not necessarily mean blood. Actually, if there is blood, it would be red, not orange.

 

[Fuzzybird]

What I am seeing is orangey. May be just something they ate? So is it a concern to older chickens in a way I should treat them if this happens. OH I just thought of something. Bet they got some of the cat food spilled on the ground!SS Is Shamrock the young chicken in my short story be a dilute partridge? Cotton is sitting on 6 eggs and she will have more like her if you need any.

 

[azhenhouse]

I don't know anyone in Arizona with chanticlers or bantam buff orpingtons. I haven't seen either at any Arizona shows. James Smith has bantam orpingtons, but as far as I know not buffs; he has whites, and maybe blacks.

APO doesn't have an up-to-date website; not sure how long it has been since it was updated, but it's been a LONG time. There is a facebook page that is sort of current.

Thank you for the information.

I have twenty-five Partridge Chanteclers coming from Ideal in May. I want to start breeding them, and I have to start from somewhere. My guess is that not too many people in Arizona have them because they are more of a cold climate bird, IDK! They'll be perfect here in Pinetop...It's cold today. I have a breeder that has offered to sell me some adult Chantecler bantams in the fall. I am always leery about shipping adult birds, but I really want the bantams. My attempt at hatching some Buff Orpington bantam chicks didn't go so well. Maybe I'll contact James, and switch colors to black.

Thanks again.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Gallo- You probably posted this info and I missed it....How did your broody do?? Any little peepers running around??

Puddin' was an awesome broody! Seven of the 12 eggs we put under her were fertile and hatched. We changed things up a bit with how we raised this batch. We've been very busy with other projects and we're not keeping any of these chicks, so we decided to see what happens with a largely hands-off approach. With previous chicks, the tractor/brooder was kept in the inner courtyard of the back patio and the momma and chicks got free range of that area for the first month of their lives until the vaccines had a chance. They also got held a lot and fed mealworms daily and because of the interactions, you can walk right up to any of the older girls and grab them. But they also wreaked havoc on the herb garden. As soon as these chicks hatched, we put them into the tractor/brooder in the yard since we didn't vaccinate and need them quarantined from the others. The only interaction I had with the chicks was to open the brooder in the morning and close it in the evening and put food and water inside. I let the mom do everything. It was great fun to see them roaming the yard and Puddin' teaching them the ways of being a chicken. She is very ferocious for her size and pretty much all of us (other pets included) were attacked by her at some point. It was always pretty funny given her small size. I thought for sure that we would lose some to hawks--we have daily visits by Cooper's, but all seven are still alive. We witnessed two amazing attacks, both times the chicks narrowly escaped into the celery patch or the chiletepin patch. There were undoubtably many more attempts that we didn't witness because they weren't supervised. So, now I have some relatively feral acting birds that roam the yard but are very savvy and vigilant about arial predators.

Last friday, just 33 days after they hatched, Puddin' abandoned her chicks to rejoin her flock. It was heart-wrenching to see all seven of her chicks calling to her outside the coop as the sun went down. Such is the circle of life. It has also been very interesting how the older hens interacted with the chicks. From day 3, when I opened the tractor/brooder, the older girls went in to hang out since they had been excluded for so long (they love the tractor). But they didn't mind the chicks at all. They always let the chicks in to forage around for things and never attempted to chase them off. They didn't even care one bit that they were in the main chicken run. Surprisingly, (or not), that all changed the night that Puddin' rejoined her flock. That night the other older girls drove off the chicks and wouldn't let them enter the run. They were left standing outside, with their plaintive peeping. Now the hens also don't want to share their sunflower seeds.

Here's a picture of the little ones taken just an hour ago.

 

[Mikey D]

Quote:
A photographer was invited to a dinner where the host complemented him by saying, "Your photographs are amazing, you must have an expensive camera". To which he did not reply. At the end of the meal he turned to his host and said, " Your dinner was excellent, you must have an expensive oven."

 

[Mikey D]

Quote:
Great, now I'm crying. Thanks Gallo!

BTW - Cute peepers

 

[azhenhouse]

Puddin' was an awesome broody! Seven of the 12 eggs we put under her were fertile and hatched. We changed things up a bit with how we raised this batch. We've been very busy with other projects and we're not keeping any of these chicks, so we decided to see what happens with a largely hands-off approach. With previous chicks, the tractor/brooder was kept in the inner courtyard of the back patio and the momma and chicks got free range of that area for the first month of their lives until the vaccines had a chance. They also got held a lot and fed mealworms daily and because of the interactions, you can walk right up to any of the older girls and grab them. But they also wreaked havoc on the herb garden. As soon as these chicks hatched, we put them into the tractor/brooder in the yard since we didn't vaccinate and need them quarantined from the others. The only interaction I had with the chicks was to open the brooder in the morning and close it in the evening and put food and water inside. I let the mom do everything. It was great fun to see them roaming the yard and Puddin' teaching them the ways of being a chicken. She is very ferocious for her size and pretty much all of us (other pets included) were attacked by her at some point. It was always pretty funny given her small size. I thought for sure that we would lose some to hawks--we have daily visits by Cooper's, but all seven are still alive. We witnessed two amazing attacks, both times the chicks narrowly escaped into the celery patch or the chiletepin patch. There were undoubtably many more attempts that we didn't witness because they weren't supervised. So, now I have some relatively feral acting birds that roam the yard but are very savvy and vigilant about arial predators.

Last friday, just 33 days after they hatched, Puddin' abandoned her chicks to rejoin her flock. It was heart-wrenching to see all seven of her chicks calling to her outside the coop as the sun went down. Such is the circle of life. It has also been very interesting how the older hens interacted with the chicks. From day 3, when I opened the tractor/brooder, the older girls went in to hang out since they had been excluded for so long (they love the tractor). But they didn't mind the chicks at all. They always let the chicks in to forage around for things and never attempted to chase them off. They didn't even care one bit that they were in the main chicken run. Surprisingly, (or not), that all changed the night that Puddin' rejoined her flock. That night the other older girls drove off the chicks and wouldn't let them enter the run. They were left standing outside, with their plaintive peeping. Now the hens also don't want to share their sunflower seeds.

Here's a picture of the little ones taken just an hour ago.

I know so many people here that would love to have those chicks. I'll meet you half way, and take them from you. Bring some mealworms, too.