Arizona Chickens

[AZBootsie]

Welcome to all the newbies I missed that last few days!! You will enjoy the company here!

Cool "contraption" Mikey

Iris is doing well so far. Her incision looks good. No swelling or redness. Her skin is back to her lavender color. She was ravenous this morning and I let her outside for a while and she was all over the back yard. What a change from a few days ago. But she still needs to stay in the house till at least Monday to heal properly.

I thought my GLW Gretchen was preparing to go broody the last 2 weeks and last night I found her in the nest box. I took her out and put her on the roost. This morning she was back in the same nest box. She was out when I got home tonight and she ate and ran the yard for a couple minutes and back to the box she went to sit on her plastic easter eggs.

She went broody last summer and that lasted forever. This time DH said that we can get her some babies or let her hatch some eggs. I marked the calendar that May 1st would make 21 days. Anyone out there going to have chicks/eggs hatch around that time that I can purchase? Please pm me what breed chicks or eggs available. Would like her to be a mama at least once. Thanks.



Getting ready to tuck this one under. She has 3 now.

Gretchen is beautiful and I am glad Iris is feeling better. If you can't find chicks or eggs closer, I have some way out here in Congress. Incubator hatchday is 4/30 or eggs anytime.

The broodies around here are getting a bit out of hand. Seems like every time I check there is another one sitting. 1 I kept shooing out of the box and tonight she is on the roost. Another I tried a distraction technique... carried her around most of the day and brought her on the porch for treats. She is also on the roost now. But, 3 others are really determined. Magenta's will hatch around the 20th, Penelope's the 25th and Ocean's the 29th. They are in pens with their flocks and all the chick scalping stories have me worried. I may have to move some breeders in with the layers to make a temp broody/mamma/chick pen.

Fuzzybird if you decide to incubate another batch (looks like you are going to win the Serama eggs and will have to!!!) give me a call and I will save some Ameraucana & EE eggs for you.

 

[Mikey D]

Welcome to all the newbies I missed that last few days!! You will enjoy the company here!

Cool "contraption" Mikey

Iris is doing well so far. Her incision looks good. No swelling or redness. Her skin is back to her lavender color. She was ravenous this morning and I let her outside for a while and she was all over the back yard. What a change from a few days ago. But she still needs to stay in the house till at least Monday to heal properly.

I thought my GLW Gretchen was preparing to go broody the last 2 weeks and last night I found her in the nest box. I took her out and put her on the roost. This morning she was back in the same nest box. She was out when I got home tonight and she ate and ran the yard for a couple minutes and back to the box she went to sit on her plastic easter eggs.

She went broody last summer and that lasted forever. This time DH said that we can get her some babies or let her hatch some eggs. I marked the calendar that May 1st would make 21 days. Anyone out there going to have chicks/eggs hatch around that time that I can purchase? Please pm me what breed chicks or eggs available. Would like her to be a mama at least once. Thanks.



Getting ready to tuck this one under. She has 3 now.

Contraption is a good word.

Very cut mama-clucker, mama-Chris!

How did she feel about the flash? The peepers used to lose their little minds.

 

[pimachickens]

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Ooohh, she is so pretty! I wish her luck with her little purple egg.

And I'm happy Iris is doing well.

 

[MagicChicken]

constance

i have the seed box. i have been trying to get someone to take it from me, but no takers. the in-laws live off river road down there, i remember i picked it up in oro valley last august from someone, can't remember who tho. next time they are up this way, which should be after taxes(FIL is a cpa) i will send it down and someone will need to go and get it from him.

What is the seed box?

 

[MagicChicken]

Got an interesting Garden Question

What do you call it when you have green tomatoes with dark brown 'tunnels' all around the bottom...BUT no bugs, and when the fruit was cut open..no sign of rotting??
I thought it might be End Blossom Rot..but why would only one plant suffer? Then I scoured the plant for worms..None..Hmmm....

Are you sure you don't have birds sampling the tomatoes? They like to peck holes into mine, and they don't always wait until the tomatoes are ripe. When my tomatoes get blossom end rot it's usually one large funky spot where the blossom was, not really a "tunnel."

 

[Mikey D]

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[Mikey D]

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The seed box is an AZ BYC exclusive.

It is passed around to those of us (NOT Mikey) who have green thumbs and seeds are added and removed as you see fit.

Sounds like a bunch of fun for those people that can plant something and have it live more than a week.

 

[pastrymama]

ok peeps, i have a friend up in cottonwood that has 3 turkey hens that are approx 6 months old( one black spanish and two bourbon red) that she would like to sell pretty fast. she also has a pen that is a chain link dog fencing type thing for them if you don't have a place for them. she is asking $30 per turkey hen and $100 for the pen, but the turkeys need to go first before the pen or everything all together. her son was going to do 4H and then changed his mind, as kids do. send me a pm if you are interrested and i will give you her number. and the turkeys are LAYING!!!!!!!

 

[Arizonachicken]

Mama Hen: Gretchen is so pretty! I've read that Wyandottes make excellent mothers. My Wyandotte is awesome. She was so dedicated to her eggs and she took the chicks without hesitation. She attacks the dog through the coop wire, too. I have to make sure the dogs stay away from her coop because I don't want her to hurt herself. She does let me go in and pick up a chick or two (if I can catch the little buggers!

) She is gentle with me, which is amazing, because she went broody the day after I brought her home, so we never got any real "bonding time". I always bring her tasty treats though, maybe that has something to do with it. Good news on Iris!

Pastry: I didn't know you still had the seed box (must have missed that post). I totally could have picked it up. If you still have it Sunday, I'll get it from you. Let me know.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I had someone message this link to an article. In particular, I found the de-crowing information interesting, and started wondering if perhaps the simplest/least expensive/safest de-crowing method might be to give female hormones? I guess the questions are how safe is it really, and the extent to which it would affect fertility of the rooster.

http://www2.ca.uky.edu/afspoultry-files/pubs/Anatomy_Respiratory.pdf