Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

Does anyone know where to get a sheet of thin tempered glass or plexiglass? I was cleaning the fridge, and while it was drying on the counter it got knocked off. I'm going to call and see about a replacement shelf, but I wonder if it might be cheaper to just have one made.

Home Depot has plexiglass.

 

[Mikey D]

Quote: I have bran left if you need it - it is in a quickly disintegrating bag in my yard ;-)

 

[parentwarrior]

I am pretty sure putting my girls outside brought all the rain to Phoenix. It started the day they went to the coop for the first time and has rained every day since. No need to thank me.

On a side note...we gave the girls some meal worms the other day. Can we all say chicken crack? How often do you give meal worms to your chickens?

I try to do it as a treat once a day. I have only found the worms at one Walmart over on southern west of power road. Anyone know of any where else to get them?
Kris

 

[parentwarrior]

Home Depot has plexiglass.

I have a glass lady in a networking group I attend. I can ask her. I know she did glass shelves for a Curio cabinet.
Kris

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: State Fair is in October/November; County Fair is in April

 

[Billiam]

Where'd all the rain go?

 

[kevs-chickadees]

Hey, I live outside the loop...just barely...like a block. I need a bb gun or pellet gun...No one will hear me ) Ok..so they all fly away when I go outside so it wouldn't do me any good anyhow.

That's what they would do here too so......... I took the screen out of the window and whenever I feel the urge, crack the window a bit and fire away.

 

[Billiam]

I'm starting a new phase of the chicken yard. Here is the concept I've come up with. Everything is landscape rock right now so I've already begun removing it from this area. I will be putting sod in with a sprinkler system. The chickens will hopefully have plenty of grass in their run to scratch in and enough shade from the grapefruit tree. I've already got the posts and lattice pieces. Yippee! I get to dig 24" deep holes for the posts. If any of you are jealous of digging holes in the heat you are more than welcome to come over. I am a great foreman. Anyways, I hope to progress pretty quickly as I am wanting to get my garden going for the winter and I don't want to have to keep the chickens in the coop/run all day. I will probably just put some temporary chicken wire in the back between the coop and block wall, it's a two foot gap, as my next project is a garden shed to the left of all of this and then I will probably duplicate what you see here over to the garden shed using the front of it as the furthest boarder of the chicken territory.

 

[mclevinson]

How do you start a meal worm colony? That sounds like a great idea!

Ummm late but ... I have a colony looking for a new home. [email protected]
You may already have arranged for something...I am tardy I know.

 

[Arizonachicken]

I'm starting a new phase of the chicken yard. Here is the concept I've come up with. Everything is landscape rock right now so I've already begun removing it from this area. I will be putting sod in with a sprinkler system. The chickens will hopefully have plenty of grass in their run to scratch in and enough shade from the grapefruit tree. I've already got the posts and lattice pieces. Yippee! I get to dig 24" deep holes for the posts. If any of you are jealous of digging holes in the heat you are more than welcome to come over. I am a great foreman. Anyways, I hope to progress pretty quickly as I am wanting to get my garden going for the winter and I don't want to have to keep the chickens in the coop/run all day. I will probably just put some temporary chicken wire in the back between the coop and block wall, it's a two foot gap, as my next project is a garden shed to the left of all of this and then I will probably duplicate what you see here over to the garden shed using the front of it as the furthest boarder of the chicken territory.

Sounds like a great plan. Moving all that rock can't be fun, though. What program did you use to make that diagram? Very nice!