Arizona Chickens

[MaddBaggins]

On another note, it's friday night and the wife and daughter are out for a bit. Cold beer in hand and some cool jams on the HiFi.

Ahhhh peace!

 

[Mahonri]

Here is another "cool" jam for you to watch and listen to....

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[MaddBaggins]

Here is another "cool" jam for you to watch and listen to....

CLICK THIS! <------------

Awesome!

I don't quite look that bad when I'm dancing around the house, but I did cut my teeth to all the great 50-60-70's music.
Tonight I'm listening to Thievery Corporation.

 

[cbnovick]

Years ago in collage I did research of rain in AZ. for max water retention/detention, drainage, flow, etcetera. Sadly I forgot 95%. I do remember that this is really normal for the desert. Feast and famine. We have seeds that will wait 100+ yrs for that rain.

Question: what is this, greenhouse do to us, going to do to the cycle of rain/drought? The butterfly HAS fapped his wings.

Did you know 400 yrs ago most of Arizona was tall grass land. Tuscon had a massive forest of tree. Sage brush is not native to this continent, was a garden plant in Spain.

Very interesting!

 

[Demosthine]

Years ago in collage I did research of rain in AZ. for max water retention/detention, drainage, flow, etcetera. Sadly I forgot 95%. I do remember that this is really normal for the desert. Feast and famine. We have seeds that will wait 100+ yrs for that rain.

Question: what is this, greenhouse do to us, going to do to the cycle of rain/drought? The butterfly HAS flapped his wings.

Did you know 400 yrs ago most of Arizona was tall grass land. Tuscon had a massive forest of tree. Sage brush is not native to this continent, was a garden plant in Spain.

Yeah, that's one of the things that irritates me about the entire "Global Warming" argument. The Earth has been warming and cooling in cycles since the dawn of existence. There have been several severely cold times and an equal number of warm times. Nothing we say or do is going to change that. We may accelerate it slightly, but Mother Nature will fight back and ultimately win. There was a recent article about it and it showed a graph of the average temperatures from the last 11,000. It's a huge bell graph! Yes, the last 500 years or show has supposedly shown a huge increase in average temperature, but it still shows a very clear and drastic variation that the humans and our carbon consumption could not possibly have affected. And the 1,000 years before that showed a much more drastic drop in temperature than any previous point. So what did mankind do during that era to cause "Global Cooling?"

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And it's interesting you mentioned the seeds waiting 100+ years for water. There were some tadpole looking things that came up for discussion last monsoon. Someone found them in the puddles. They do the same thing. The eggs lie in wait forever. I forgot who it was or what they were called, but I think it was before you joined. We need to go back to remembering Mother Nature is far superior to our measly existence.

 

[Demosthine]

Just a reminder for anyone interested, tomorrow (Sunday) is the potluck at my house. Message me if you are interested in coming and have not already confirmed.

Looking forward to meeting everyone, too!

 

[MaddBaggins]

Hey, if I got some started pullets, appx the same age as the rest of the flock, do I need to keep them separate? I don't have the spare coop/run to keep birds apart.
I ask because once I find out how many roo's we really have, I want to replace them with pullets to keep my flock number at 8 or 9. Plus, I would like to get another breed or 2 in the flock.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Any one have button quail? Anybody want a pair? One of those not thought though, thinking with heart not head moments my sister Denise and I got 2 hens and a male. Well we didn't know just how specialized they are to keep. They got away from us 3 times and lucky to have caught the little beggars after a very heart in the throat escapade around the yard. Tried to bring them in but cats REALLY were interested in them. Now they are in a cage inside one of coops with the seramas. Can't run with the seramas for there are places they can get out! Oh and one of the hens died. Probably got hurt while we were trying to catch her, poor thing. Anyway they are laying and going cheep to anyone that wants them. male is pretty red and brown with white ring around neck and hen is a pearly white.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

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And it's interesting you mentioned the seeds waiting 100+ years for water. There were some tadpole looking things that came up for discussion last monsoon. Someone found them in the puddles. They do the same thing. The eggs lie in wait forever. I forgot who it was or what they were called, but I think it was before you joined. We need to go back to remembering Mother Nature is far superior to our measly existence.

We do have an impact. The forests, carbon and other chemicals. And nature will win. Our impact is excilerating conditions. It has always been changing. Spainards changed rain and the land with cattle and sagebrush, locally. Then the early minners cut down the trees in the Tucson area. The rain patern was changing any way if I remember right. There is more rain on weekends over big city's do to carbon in the air. Most are local impacts. BUT! You can't win. Pollution was as bad in the 1700' as today. Burning fireplaces, cooking, light .. Oil lamps emit huge amount of particulates. Animals give off gas... Methane and other gasses in swamps. I have seen balls of glowing gas drifting above the water in swamps in Florida and Miss. It is so complicated we, and diffently not politictions know only a fraction of what is going on. What we DO know is the antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the chemical human palution that WE have bought into and helped along. Baby's are surviving that once had no chance, as well as people. We are adjusting by fewer births then in the past. Death was all so common once. Yet because of this we have been gifted with some great minds. We all have traces of plasics in our body's by our Daily contact. We have more wast per person today. ok I be quite now

 

[countrygirl74]

Yeah, that's one of the things that irritates me about the entire "Global Warming" argument. The Earth has been warming and cooling in cycles since the dawn of existence. There have been several severely cold times and an equal number of warm times. Nothing we say or do is going to change that. We may accelerate it slightly, but Mother Nature will fight back and ultimately win. There was a recent article about it and it showed a graph of the average temperatures from the last 11,000. It's a huge bell graph! Yes, the last 500 years or show has supposedly shown a huge increase in average temperature, but it still shows a very clear and drastic variation that the humans and our carbon consumption could not possibly have affected. And the 1,000 years before that showed a much more drastic drop in temperature than any previous point. So what did mankind do during that era to cause "Global Cooling?"

​

And it's interesting you mentioned the seeds waiting 100+ years for water. There were some tadpole looking things that came up for discussion last monsoon. Someone found them in the puddles. They do the same thing. The eggs lie in wait forever. I forgot who it was or what they were called, but I think it was before you joined. We need to go back to remembering Mother Nature is far superior to our measly existence.