Arizona Chickens

[AZBootsie]

My wife and I purchased chicks from the Ace hardware store in Gilbert on Gilbert rd and Chandler heights

Congratulations!!!
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[AZBootsie]

City children are so deprived.

I took my Granddaughter to catch tadpoles. Now, she thinks I am more fun than Santa Claus!!!!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Tadpoles!!! What fun!

That's awesome that you have someplace near you that can hold water for them.

 

[Arizonachicken]

I love tadpoles! My parents had a bunch of Canyon Tree Frog tadpoles in their little pond. They live in the mountains just north of Payson. My kids LOVE going up there!

 

[Mikey D]

Quote:

It's my sewing machine...
and her welder?

Well...

Whenever I'm looking for a new one I tell her "We" could really use this.______________!

 

[AZBootsie]

She is having a great time just staring at them. We caught something else with the tadpole....any ideas what this is?? It's not from a lake or anything....just a big mudhole down the street. I guess it could be some sort of bug. Or maybe an actual water critter that washed down from Prescott?? It looks like a tiny stingray, has a bunch of stringy leg things that ruffle to move it through the water, and a split tail. It acts like it wants to burrow in muck. I know these pics are bad, will try to get some tomorrow when we clean out the water.








Any ideas??

 

[Arizonachicken]

She is having a great time just staring at them.  We caught something else with the tadpole....any ideas what this is??  It's not from a lake or anything....just a big mudhole down the street.  I guess it could be some sort of bug.  Or maybe an actual water critter that washed down from Prescott??  It looks like a tiny stingray, has a bunch of stringy leg things that ruffle to move it through the water, and a split tail.  It acts like it wants to burrow in muck.  I know these pics are bad, will try to get some tomorrow when we clean out the water.








Any ideas??

That's a tadpole shrimp. They sprout from eggs in the dirt and grow in puddles after rain.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

She is having a great time just staring at them. We caught something else with the tadpole....any ideas what this is?? It's not from a lake or anything....just a big mudhole down the street. I guess it could be some sort of bug. Or maybe an actual water critter that washed down from Prescott?? It looks like a tiny stingray, has a bunch of stringy leg things that ruffle to move it through the water, and a split tail. It acts like it wants to burrow in muck. I know these pics are bad, will try to get some tomorrow when we clean out the water.








Any ideas??

That's totally awesome! It's a Triops. They're a very primitive crustacean that lives in ephemeral pools in AZ. They're also known as tadpole shrimp. I always wondered about raising them for chickens.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

That's a tadpole shrimp. They sprout from eggs in the dirt and grow in puddles after rain.

Yep, you beat me to it.

 

[Arizonachicken]

Yep, you beat me to it.

Yes, but your description sounded much better!