Arizona Chickens

[LadyKotaDoria]

[COLOR=008000]HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! OOPS!!! They did it again!!!![/COLOR] [COLOR=008000] 5 new baby red ear sliders will be looking for new homes about mid January. Available only to the knowledgeable and fully informed on proper care. PM me if interested. Thanks. My last batch all found good homes from fellow BYC'ers.[/COLOR]

Thank you for your consern that you red ear go to knowlagable care owners. When I was a kid you could get them in Five and Dime stores. Of course I had to have one. My friends turtal a disappeared (I don't know what happened to them). Mine got big..... Very big, it's shell was hard not soft as my friends. Mine had lots of sun, good water, and food. I did not like that dried stuff, I collected bugs for mine. In the 50's nothing was a valuable. It was a merical that any survived. When he was about the size of the palm of my hand he took a piece out of my figure, we took him to a pond that was kept open all winter. I was vey upset about turning him lose. I remember some how (?) he was always getting lost in the house (I thought he would like to get out of that aquarium.)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Is there any way of telling what hen is laying?

Put food colouring in the vents. Different colour for each girl. It will come off on the egg. I've been told to do it daily for several days and then it will last most of a week. Might want to avoid scaring yourself with red, though.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF MY AZ PEEPS!

And a Happy New Year and Merry 8th Day of Christmas to YOU!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I don't think any of my silkies have ever been more than two fingers wide. And quite sure that my bantam araucana, serama and moderns would not be a full two. I honestly don;t think the spacing varies based upon laying or not; it does vary based upon gender. Now comb colour can help unless you have a gypsy faced breed or black skin like a silkie, and moist versus dry vent can help.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Any one having finch problems swarming on the coups ?? Any suggestions ? They swoop right through my chicken wire !!!

Smaller openings?

 

[AZBootsie]

Hello Chicken Friends

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: And they were prizes at the fair...and their backs were often painted. When I was little I had Amanda Possum Turtle (Amanda Possum was a puppet character on a local kids show in Dallas). Her back was painted pink. My brother's turtle had a blue back. No idea what its name was...

 

[parentwarrior]

Yeah I like that to, can u show us?. I do think it will be to hot in the coop during the summer.

It is nothing fancy. I just took things I had around the house. The middle post in the picture is inside the covered part of the run with 3 grape plants growing up the post. I took the poles and used the grape branches on one side to hold the poles and the cage fencing on the other. Another pole is hanging off with S hooks. Above the roosting poles on the ceiling is four misters (white tubing) for in the summer heat hooked to our garden sprinkler system, it goes off every day at certain times on a timer. I put a fan that blows through the mist on the ground so they are very comfortable even at 115 degrees. The combination keeps that corner a lot cooler in the heat. In the winter I turn the heat lamp on at night and they have started roosting on these poles. I put black plastic stapled to the 2 sides of the run to protect them from wind and side rain. The block wall fence is in the far back. The quail will either sleep on the poles with them or she likes to sleep on the top of the ladder. They all like to climb around on the poles and branches during the day. I have extra branches so the quail can get up to her roosting spot easily. My tiny coop and nest boxes is to the right of this picture. You can see a bit of the black plastic I used to cover the roof to protect it from the rain. I actually put a old down blanket under the plastic to insulate the roof of the coop. Like I said, nothing fancy but they like it. I also dug out under the coop so they can go under the coop. Their run is an enclosed grape trellis in the back corner of our yard. I used outdoor rain proof Christmas electrical cords to hook up the electrical stuff like the heat lamp by their roosting poles. I got it on clearance last year after Christmas. I use pine chips for the floor of the run and every morning I sprinkle scratch over the ground. I free feed their food in a deep bowl so my scissor beak chicken can scoop up her food.

 

[City farm]

Smaller openings?

Yes x2.. Do they just fly threw? Or o they stop for a free meal?

 

[City farm]

Great that you re-use... I do the same... Our neighbor tossed some large cinder blocks out to the curd. We jumped on the them.. They are the perfect height to put the girls cubby on.. It is really a book shelf.. Cream color.. Big enough for the bigger girls to go in & lay.. Plain & simple.. All though, I love to see the photos of other coops... Ideas.. I also like your grape vines... We did that as well.. Thank you for sharing... It is nothing fancy. I just took things I had around the house. The middle post in the picture is inside the covered part of the run with 3 grape plants growing up the post. I took the poles and used the grape branches on one side to hold the poles and the cage fencing on the other. Another pole is hanging off with S hooks. Above the roosting poles on the ceiling is four misters (white tubing) for in the summer heat hooked to our garden sprinkler system, it goes off every day at certain times on a timer. I put a fan that blows through the mist on the ground so they are very comfortable even at 115 degrees. The combination keeps that corner a lot cooler in the heat. In the winter I turn the heat lamp on at night and they have started roosting on these poles. I put black plastic stapled to the 2 sides of the run to protect them from wind and side rain. The block wall fence is in the far back. The quail will either sleep on the poles with them or she likes to sleep on the top of the ladder. They all like to climb around on the poles and branches during the day. I have extra branches so the quail can get up to her roosting spot easily. My tiny coop and nest boxes is to the right of this picture. You can see a bit of the black plastic I used to cover the roof to protect it from the rain. I actually put a old down blanket under the plastic to insulate the roof of the coop. Like I said, nothing fancy but they like it. I also dug out under the coop so they can go under the coop. Their run is an enclosed grape trellis in the back corner of our yard. I used outdoor rain proof Christmas electrical cords to hook up the electrical stuff like the heat lamp by their roosting poles. I got it on clearance last year after Christmas. I use pine chips for the floor of the run and every morning I sprinkle scratch over the ground. I free feed their food in a deep bowl so my scissor beak chicken can scoop up her food.