Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

I am sooooooo frustrated!!

When I ordered my batch of chicks from Ideal Poultry, I specifically asked for all hens - NO MALES, not even any to keep the others warm in transit as suggested. I was willing to take responsibility for any losses. I asked them to not throw in any extras or anything. The only straight run I ordered were 3 silkies and I knew I could get roos in there.


Well, here we are about 4 months later... our FAVORITE hen started crowing this morning. A beautiful Americauna which I was hoping to get pretty eggs from. They also DID send me an EXTRA Australorp which also turned out to be a rooster and is now crowing too. Then, next thing I know, our one and only speckled sussex they sent me is starting to crow. And from what I can tell, 2 of the silkies (the blue and red) are both roos.

That leaves me with 1 white silkie hen, 2 barred plymouth rocks, 1 rhode island red, 1 Americauna, and 2 australorps that are scaring me a bit with looking like roos. Do Australorp hens have bigger combs and wattles then other breeds?

That's like 5 roosters to 7 hens and that's if I'm lucky and the other 2 Australorps are hens. I expected that there may be some error in sexing, like maybe I would end up with 1 roo or something but this is ridiculous. I am going to have to start all over with getting enough hens for the eggs I want to get and butcher some of our favorites. Is there a more accurate place to order chickens from?

Wow, that is a disaster. ;(
We ordered from my pet chicken with great success.. I bet you ended up with the wrong chicks...
I do remember someone saying that they can sex eggs. I don't know how correct that is but if it is you
must of ended up with " what's in box number 2" not your box..

 

[City farm]

My wife EMailed me that she went outside and couldn't find the older girls, Christine and Sleepy. She could hear them, but didn't see them. Finally, she realized they were up on the playground equipment! Here are a few photos. I guess since the dogs are gone, their are completely claiming the yard as theirs!

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Aahh! They look so happy. Thanks for the pics..

 

[City farm]

Progress picture!

That is great! When we first started looking at coops this is what we liked..

 

[City farm]

Thank you! I've never been there! I googled out of curiosity, I'm not sure if this is what you meant but this one is rad!

As the Valley girl would say. " like yay way"

 

[City farm]

  I just spewed kombucha out of my nose, and all over my keyboard! You are so funny!

Yeah me too...
Only a man could put that together like that... If I even showed my DH he would not stop giving
you suggestions of what you could name your coop.. Seriously.. I think Gallo nailed it!!!

 

[City farm]

Balzac.... What about... Squeaky Balzsac Chalet?

Ooopppss I meant mahonri..

 

[pimachickens]

Balzac.... What about... Squeaky Balzsac Chalet?

This one definitely gets my vote!

 

[Mahonri]

Just so everyone knows, this will be the only place I'll post it, and it will probably be deleted by staff, but I was "not worn out" doing hatch a longs.

I was basically forced out, told it could no longer be "Mahonri's" hatch a long.

Nuff said.

 

[Fuzzybird]

I also love bats and the thing is its not true about all bats carrying rabies. The vampire bat is mostly the culprit.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I also love bats and the thing is its not true about all bats carrying rabies. The vampire bat is mostly the culprit.

That's true, not all bats carry rabies. The same is true for foxes and dogs. Less than 1% of all bats in north America, regardless of species, carry rabies. However, of the 19 cases of rabies in humans in the U.S. from 1997-2006, 17 were sourced to bats. I have to point out, other than in zoos, there are no vampire bats in the U.S. So, I'm not too worried about contracting rabies from a bat. But I won't be handling any bats either.