Arizona Chickens

[Gallo del Cielo]

All pastrymama's fault! She "twisted my arm" as I wasn't going to get any new chicks. But they are just so adorable. The girls at work said they look like poodles! lol They want me to bring them to work.

She's so persuasive! I feared I couldn't meet her without walking away with a few ducks.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Quote: Looks ike a winter pile: Dense and compact to keep warm Notice no roosting

Just awesome. You know what, I always thought your avatar looked like tribbles, with several budding asexually off the main soma. MHC, that was one of my favorite Star Trek episodes. What a blast from the past.

 

[City farm]

So excited, poultry show is next week at the fair my favorite and only part of the fair I like is going and seeing all the different types of birds....anyone have birds entered?

Now that we have a flock the fair sounds great.. I have not been since a young adult... That sentence sounds
like I'm old? Old is 100.+.. So if anyone would like to carpool & we could work out a schedule..
"weekday" Monday or Tuesday I'm up for driving.. P.M. Me

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Now that we have a flock the fair sounds great.. I have not been since a young adult... That sentence sounds
like I'm old? Old is 100.+.. So if anyone would like to carpool & we could work out a schedule..
"weekday" Monday or Tuesday I'm up for driving.. P.M. Me

The fair is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. My friend and I are going on Thursday.

 

[City farm]

The fair is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. My friend and I are going on Thursday.

see how much I know! Thanks.. It has been so long ago? Ok then,
I will have to Look at my schedule for the following week... Can't wait...

 

[Demosthine]

I started building the coop last weekend and am continuing it today. It'll be 3'x5' and have the nesting box extend the total length out to 6'. I am planning on having a regular light inside, along with some sort of heater for the winter. It'll drop in to the mid- to high-20s here on the outskirts on occasion. For summer, I'll end up installing some sort of fan to help circulate the air then, too. So my quest begins for the best choices for each. Does anyone have recommendations on these items? I have not gone out to look at the options at the stores yet, but I thought I'd seek the wisdom of the Chicken Gods first. I already have an aquarium timer power strip that can control two items during day hours, two during night hours, and six regular items. I will probably use it for flexibility.

- Small 6"x6"-12"x12" heater that has temperature control or a power control strip that is temperature based.
- Small switch box that will operate the regular light, heat lamp, heater, and fan? I think regular light switches are overkill.
- Small 6"x6"-12"x12" fan. With our heat, I'm not worried about a temperature control here. It's either on or off.

Then again, if I can find a power outlet or strip that is temperature based, I can use one of them to control the heater during winter and fan during summer. Oh, the ideas are rolling...

Thanks ahead of time. And if anyone is interested, I started a Coop Page for my Little Red Henhouse. I'll add on as I build the coop.

 

[City farm]

Well, well, well, our Katherine is now officially Kent..
He is our partridge silkie..
I was up earlie this morning to look for the moon that I saw above
the Sun yesterday morning... However it was not there this morning??
I asked my DH, he said that yesterday a comet,meteor or plant passed
by our planet??? Not sure.. I was so eggcited about Kent.. I could not
understand him.. "sleeping" I had to wake him! Anyway, anyone know
anything?.. A client did mention some planet called nabiru ?? Spelling?
I hope to have time to look up the info on line...

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I started building the coop last weekend and am continuing it today. It'll be 3'x5' and have the nesting box extend the total length out to 6'. I am planning on having a regular light inside, along with some sort of heater for the winter. It'll drop in to the mid- to high-20s here on the outskirts on occasion. For summer, I'll end up installing some sort of fan to help circulate the air then, too. So my quest begins for the best choices for each. Does anyone have recommendations on these items? I have not gone out to look at the options at the stores yet, but I thought I'd seek the wisdom of the Chicken Gods first. I already have an aquarium timer power strip that can control two items during day hours, two during night hours, and six regular items. I will probably use it for flexibility.

- Small 6"x6"-12"x12" heater that has temperature control or a power control strip that is temperature based.
- Small switch box that will operate the regular light, heat lamp, heater, and fan? I think regular light switches are overkill.
- Small 6"x6"-12"x12" fan. With our heat, I'm not worried about a temperature control here. It's either on or off.

Then again, if I can find a power outlet or strip that is temperature based, I can use one of them to control the heater during winter and fan during summer. Oh, the ideas are rolling...

Thanks ahead of time. And if anyone is interested, I started a Coop Page for my Little Red Henhouse. I'll add on as I build the coop.

Good job on moving forward with coop construction. Are you asking for input? It seems so, so I will offer my thoughts. I see you are concerned about the comfort of your ladies, but I would forego the heater. Even the folks in Alaska advocate not using a heater. I think it could be especially troublesome in a coop the size you are building. My girls seem happiest on the coldest days and I wouldn't deprive them of that. Growing up in northern MI where it gets seriously cold, we never heated our coop. Start watching the coop threads, it's that time of year where you'll begin to see all sorts of reports of coops burning down because they were heated. It happens every year in the fall. I'm not saying that will happen in your case, but you should be aware of the very real possibility.

The fan sounds like a good idea and I may even add one next summer.

The coops that have inspired you and Mrs. Demosthine are very cute, but probably not the best for our climate, at least not without some tweaking. I would seriously think about ways to make entire walls ventilated. If there is not enough air exchange inside, they may not want to go inside to use it. Situating the coop in the shade will help, but there will still be heat and moisture build-up from their bodies and respiration. Perhaps a fan would help with that, but I think it's best that air exchange can happen very efficiently and passively as well. These thoughts are just my 2 cents and probably worth that too.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Well, well, well, our Katherine is now officially Kent..
He is our partridge silkie..
I was up earlie this morning to look for the moon that I saw above
the Sun yesterday morning... However it was not there this morning??
I asked my DH, he said that yesterday a comet,meteor or plant passed
by our planet??? Not sure.. I was so eggcited about Kent.. I could not
understand him.. "sleeping" I had to wake him! Anyway, anyone know
anything?.. A client did mention some planet called nabiru ?? Spelling?
I hope to have time to look up the info on line...

I read about that, it was an asteroid, about 50 feet in diameter and passed by the earth on Friday night at a distance closer than the moon. It's official designation was 2012 TC4.

 

[City farm]

I read about that, it was an asteroid, about 50 feet in diameter and passed by the earth on Friday night at a distance closer than the moon.  It's official designation was 2012 TC4.

Ok well I still would like to know about what planet, moon I saw yesterday morning..
My photo is not that great.. I need to head out the door to pick up our fresh RAW cow milk..
Hopefully I will be able to find out what it was... I was going to use a better camera this morning..
I hope to get up tomorrow morning & see it??