Arizona Chickens

[Gallo del Cielo]

Funny story. My wife and I just went to pick up our daughter who was having dinner with friends down on Fourth Avenue (busy pedestrian area with restaurants and shops here in Tucson). It's dark out and I was riding passenger for a change. As we turned off Fourth Ave. onto Fifth St. my wife suddenly exclaims, "there's a small dog running down the middle of the road, it shouldn't be running lose at this hour!" It was clear that she wanted to catch it and find its owner. I turned to look at it and said, "that's not a dog, that's a coyote."

 

[Mahonri]

Catch that coyote and send it back to God!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I find every one here so interesting, for the first time sence '87 when I moved out here I am hearing people that share interests. Chickens, goats, gardening, solar power, and so, so much more. Wonderful family's, nurturing spons nurtured lives. People that care deeply, yet understand limits, and reality, people that assume self responsibility. There is a good thread that wines though this BYC community that has its own light.

I admirer anyone that can home school successfully. That is very difficult task. There are tools available that can be used, I have no dought that they are being selectively used. When I arrived at The Taylor School in Clayton, MO. I learned just how bad our education is. It was an English School, with most of the teachers retired collage/universally prophesiers. I was thought to think, not dogma. The world opened up for me, I learned I love learning, that learning is fluid. As new discoverys come to light, everything can change. Teachers teach what they were taught. One of my teachers, wrote our text book........ It said it was all wrong. By the time it was accepted and published there was new information that made the book obsolete. But it was the book we would have to learn..... Then forget.

I admirer family, the home maker, that what I am not. The world needs all of us, we all give variety and color to the world, with the light of a good thread connecting us all.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Catch that coyote and send it back to God!

 

You only say that because he wants to eat our chickens.....:/
Come to think of it.....
(I would send him air mail if he was in my yard in a heart beat)

 

[flower]

You only say that because he wants to eat our chickens.....

Come to think of it.....

(I would send him air mail if he was in my yard in a heart beat)

cute because he is in our backyards at the fence line and he can climb over

 

[AZKat]

Kev: I don't know much about apple trees, but my mom's apple tree does the same thing. Her trees did produce a few apples last year, it was their second year, but honestly I think it is a little bit too warm here for apples. Stripping the leaves is a good idea, a neighbor of mine who has been an avid gardener for years advises doing it for fruit trees because it reduces the number of chill hours that are needed. Not that this was an issue this year, I think my peaches got all their chill hours in a long weekend.

 

[MagicChicken]

I was dimly aware of that project, but after reading those pages I really regret not having gotten a few of those trees.

Gallo, you can get Kino Heritage trees at Desert Survivors. They've had them for the last several plant sales. You also may be able to find them at some of the other nurseries. Civano and Magic Garden are two likely prospects. I've gotten a Kino Heritage quince tree, two pomegranates and a black mission fig from Desert Survivors. The poor fig tree froze to the ground two years ago, a few months after I planted it. It was coming back this year but probably froze to the ground again last week. Won't know until spring.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Call it a pet and you are probably good--unless it is loud like the goats in the house behind me--we're Ag District, so here it's okay even if they are noisy. (Seems crazy to me that three dairy goats are louder than my many roosters!)

Technically you can have 2 goats for every 6000 sq ft more than 1/2 acre. Not sure how that would count with pypgy or dwarf goats...4? It's 1 large animal (cow, horse, etc.) per 6000 or 2 small (sheep, goat, etc) But that is supposed to be Ag district only. http://tempe.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=1915#Chapter 1-Permitted Uses In Residential Districts shows in text and table what is permitted. Best bet is to look under "I. Small Animals." Nothing listed about needing a vet's note for pot-bellied pigs..just a max of 2.

 

[Mahonri]

Goats, pigs etc... And people think I'm crazy for having chickens!

Well, I'll be losing my 4 blue layers and my pretty BW Am. roo in the next couple of weeks. (He has started to crow along with his desire for the ladies)

I'm giving them away with the understanding that I'll get four or five female chicks from them eventually.

They'll be off to Heber to live with Boston and family.

... and I'm off to work.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

What terrible luck you are having today. Hope the pick-up driver buys a new car for you !

Whenever I call USAA for roadside assistance, the very first thing they ask me is if I am in a safe place. On the couple of occasions over the years when I have answered "no," they have had someone there within a very, very few minutes. Even when there is no safety issue, the longest I have ever waited was about 45 minutes; usually 30 or less.

My parents have had issues with AAA. Took hours for the tow truck to come, and they charged them a bunch of $$. AAA costs a pretty steep amount IMO. We pay about $4 per year per car for USAA roadside assistance.