Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

Quote: I went to the dollar store 'cause I 'member they had large cansa salmon.

but alas 'twas no more.

Should be a pure protein shot for em.

They turned their beaks up at kitty kibble.

 

[Mikey D]

Howdy all, New Future Chicken person here.

Just finished building my mostly all pallet / reuse chicken coop/run.

Have a REALLY crappy phone picture with glare on it.

I'm trying a shaded cover for the run - we have a dog and I've literally never seen any cats anything of the like in our yard due to his scent.

The picture makes it look like there isn't much ventilation in the coop itself, but there are large openings on the other 3 sides, the side you see is the east side, which gets a lot of sun, so i wanted to keep that shaded.

Don't have chickens yet, will be going on vacation in 3 weeks and the wife wants to wait until we get back so we can get chicks.

Was up at the Feed Barn yesterday, spoke with John in length, learned some good information, will likely get our chicks from there.

Looks good!

Good on ya for the re-purposing too!

And welcome to the madness!

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Good Evening to all and Welcome Newbies!!

I went out to "tuck" the girls in and I see a soft shell egg broken on the floor under my Black Sex-link, Millie. ( she just turned 2 years old)Turned on the light for a better view and I see this "blob". Not sure what it is. It is 2 inches long and spongy. When I cut it open it smelled like crab. ???? It also looked like many soft shells in a clump. Millie acts "normal" for her. Eats, drinks, poops, and does all her chicky things. Not sure what to make of this. Any guesses?

Here are pictures of the "blob".

 

[itsredcandy]

Good Evening to all and Welcome Newbies!!

I went out to "tuck" the girls in and I see a soft shell egg broken on the floor under my Black Sex-link, Millie. ( she just turned 2 years old)Turned on the light for a better view and I see this "blob". Not sure what it is. It is 2 inches long and spongy. When I cut it open it smelled like crab. ???? It also looked like many soft shells in a clump. Millie acts "normal" for her. Eats, drinks, poops, and does all her chicky things. Not sure what to make of this. Any guesses?

Here are pictures of the "blob".

Wow, that's funky looking.

 

[pdx2phx]

Quote:
X2! I would just clean her up so you can tell more of what's going on with her

 

[pastrymama]

Good Evening to all and Welcome Newbies!!

I went out to "tuck" the girls in and I see a soft shell egg broken on the floor under my Black Sex-link, Millie. ( she just turned 2 years old)Turned on the light for a better view and I see this "blob". Not sure what it is. It is 2 inches long and spongy. When I cut it open it smelled like crab. ???? It also looked like many soft shells in a clump. Millie acts "normal" for her. Eats, drinks, poops, and does all her chicky things. Not sure what to make of this. Any guesses?

Here are pictures of the "blob".

Mama Hen,

from pics that i have seen posted by speckled hen, this looks to me to be some sort of internal laying mass that she was able to expel. maybe send a pm to speckled hen with these pics attached and see what she thinks. she has had more than her fair share of hens with internal laying issues.

 

[udubchick]

The timing of what to plant when is pretty important. Here is a pretty good and fairly comprehensive planting guide for the Phoenix area. Generally speaking, leafy vegetables (e.g. lettuces, celery, cabbage) and roots (e.g. potatoes, carrots, beets) are planted in the fall.

I hadn't seen this link before. This is the best guide I've seen for the area!

 

[udubchick]

I can give my .02 but hope that others with a lot more experience will chime in too! Some of it probably needs some explaining....

we have:

dog nail trimmers (for overgrown beaks/nails)
good scissors (for cutting compress pads and vetwrap)
compress pads
stiptic pencil (sp?) to stop minor bleeding, broken pinfeathers although sometimes these are best just pulled out.
10% iodine
Terramycin ointment for eye infections
vetwrap
x-acto knife and blades (I had this for bumblefoot)
needle nose tweezers
Blu-kote for covering red sores so they don't get pecked
polysporin
Vetericyn gel antibiotic spray for wounds, bumblefoot
Children's Benadryl
Wazine (for worms, although we haven't used it)
Batril injectable antibiotic (to give orally)
lots of small CC syringes for oral meds
q-tips

Oxine (for disinfecting and also for respiratory problems we will use a Crane humidifier with Oxine as a fogger)
Crane humidifier (this has been so handy!! we also used it around our hatching chicks, who started hatching under broodies but due to crazy dangerous broody behavior we brought them inside and hatched them under a heat lamp, with the humidifier. We don't have an incubator, and this definitely isn't the recommended way to hatch chicks!!! (although it worked for us)

a large 35mL syringe and tube feeder tip

Enfamil (actually the costco version now) powder, the type you add only water to which needs some explainin' **

**we are kinda crazy, and have had 1 of our original 3 chickens, a NH, get a virus (I'm guessing) twice over the past 12 mos. No one else has had an issue. She loses appetite, gets rail thin, and then slowly recovers over a period of weeks. We have tube fed her a ratio of 3 scoops Enfamil powder/2 scoops water (per the chicken vet) at a minimum of 3x per day to keep her going during the time when she has no appetite. This most recent time we did this only a few times, and both kind of decided to let her do what she needed to do and she recovered anyway.....she is Not Fond of tube feeding, and neither are we, frankly!

What about other folks?? What do you all have in your kits? I'm sure there are things I should have in mine that I don't. I haven't ever given an injection, so should probably learn how for vaccinations, etc. I don't have any needles.

Great info! I have some of this after Lucy's scorpion incident. I'll fill out the rest of my kit with your recommendations. I started labeling all the chicken items with permanent pen. The family was laughing at me when I started writing "CHICKENS ONLY" on pitchers and syringes. I also keep a little electrolyte on hand for hot days or sick chickens.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Mama Hen,

from pics that i have seen posted by speckled hen, this looks to me to be some sort of internal laying mass that she was able to expel. maybe send a pm to speckled hen with these pics attached and see what she thinks. she has had more than her fair share of hens with internal laying issues.

Thanks for the info...will do.

 

[udubchick]

Anyone have chickens free ranging with access to an open irrigation ditch? I'm not sure If I need to worry about my girls getting in and not being able to get out. I'm also worried about them when it's full - will they try to drink from it and fall in? My babies are now 14 weeks old! I can't believe it's been that long already. They're also going great with the 3 older girls, they just get out of the way if they need to but they're ok all hanging out together!