Arizona Chickens

[LadyKotaDoria]

Today as I was inspecting my girls I felt something crawling on my hand. It was a small transparent winged fly line bug, about the size of a No See'm, maybe smaller then the little black Georgia flys that are every ware during growing season. It is not hard to kill, so the body is not Beatle hard. I did not see any on my girls. Of course that dose not mean they re not there, only not every many if they are between the feathers or skin. Can any one give me a direction to go? Where to look? And possibility s?

 

[jeepgirl13]

Ok here goes. They are hiding in the.nest house again. *rolls eyes*. I guess they just are not brave enough to go check out the yard yet.

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[jeepgirl13]

I do.t know what happened there. I'm missing a couple pics. But there's a few! The one with the most color, second to last pic, LOVES being called fabio. I called him it again today and he immediately stood up, looked at me in the eyes, and then started preening. It was like he was saying "I'm sexy and I know it". Lmao

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Ok here goes. They are hiding in the.nest house again. *rolls eyes*. I guess they just are not brave enough to go check out the yard yet.

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Hi Boys! Glad to hear you are adjusting. Love the name Fabio. What have you come up for his brother?? Fonzie??

 

[MaddBaggins]

Pretty sure one of the Barred Rocks is a roo. Dang it. He'll be up for grabs when it's confirmed.

 

[jeepgirl13]

Omg that's an awesome name! I was thinking about calling him Sebastian like you were saying but I am going to try fonzie tomorrow. Fonzie and fabio. I love it!

 

[City farm]

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[Gallo del Cielo]

Well, I can report that supervised free-ranging is not without risk. I was working in the yard this morning and decided I'd let the chickens out, right about 9:30 am. At about 10 am I had my back to the chickens and heard a huge commotion, whirled around and right there, less than 15' away from me was a coyote with my BA in it's mouth, shaking it. I yelled and ran at the thing and it stood its ground for what seemed like an eternity, but was probably only a second or so and by the time I closed the gap to about 6' it dropped the chicken and hopped the wall. It stood there on the opposite side of the wall and didn't leave until I sent the dog after it. Poor Jim is limping something awful, but we couldn't find any visible damage to her beyond the loss of a lot of feathers. I was so sad to see that she didn't make it onto the roost tonight; I found her in a nest box. I hope there's not something wrong inside.

I don't know if the coyote just didn't see me prior to the attack or just didn't care. Just thought I'd share.

 

[jeepgirl13]

Ive always got a pellet rifle with me when babysitting my girls while they are out. Have had one to many feral cats eyeballing them just the other side of my fence. Lots of coyotes too, but they have never given me a problem. Its more the dogs and cats let run loose around here. I hope your girl is ok. Keep us posted

 

[jeepgirl13]

just as a thought of optimism, a chicken got caught by the tip of one of the horns on the.little mini goat at my work. I think it had a broken leg. It wouldn't let me catch her. Its surprising how a gimpy chicken is so agile. However, she hobbled around on one leg for a few weeks, and one day after.my weekend off I came back and she was perfectly fine! Hopefully this will be your case too!