Arizona Chickens

[gckiddhouse]

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Oooh! Thanks!! Good plan.

 

[Mahonri]

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Looks like a Blue Wheaten!

I need an up close of his front and face now.

 

[tofuranch]

I got myself a present today...I bought 4 Welsummer pullets and a roo.......they are about 3 months old......I am so excited, I now have 8 females and 2 males.....they are so pretty, I will get a picture for all of you tomorrow they were delivered to me in the rain. She even brought them to me and I got 18 Welsummer eggs from her adult flock that these babies hatched from

So what do I do with the 8 --2 week old Welsummer chicks in the outdoor brooder...most look like pullets....Sock and Larre are you listening???? Or???

 

[Sam The Yam]

Hey chicken friends!
I discovered I have a very broody black australorp tonight and no fertile eggs for her to set on. Any out there in the Peoria/Glendale/West Valley area have some eggs they would sale to me?
I haven't had the opportunity to have one go broody and would enjoy the opportunity.

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Carl

 

[tricketts]

Gckiddhouse and Arizonanessa

Thank you for the welcomes!!! I found this post online today about taking a trash can and putting a ice pack inside of it and it makes a chicken coop a/c unit. I am definitely going to try that. I have also decided to move the location of the coop. I wasn't thinking to smart and right now the front of the coop faces west. Horrible for late in the afternoon when the sun is the hottest and the sun is beaming in. I am going to move it to a location that faces north and south and the west side of the coop is somewhat shaded by our gazeboo. That way it is only getting full on sun in the morning. Tonight is there first night outside all night. I am a little nervous for them. They really are too funny, last night when we went out there to get them the 3 of them were huddled up right at the front door of the coop like "okay we are done playing now mom, can we come in the house." LOL

 

[rufus]

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The best cure for aphids is a five or six year old kid with a spray bottle of soapy water. The aphids don't stand a chance, and it keeps the kids busy.

Rufus

 

[gckiddhouse]

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Well, if I don't get any out of my hatch, I would be interested... Still waiting for a pip...

 

[Sock Puppet]

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Im listening and sooooooo very interested. Put me down for some.

 

[gckiddhouse]

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The best cure for aphids is a five or six year old kid with a spray bottle of soapy water. The aphids don't stand a chance, and it keeps the kids busy.

Rufus

I think I will add that to someones chore list tomorrow!

 

[pdx2phx]

Hi everyone! I am a new (and unexpected) chicken mama in north Phoenix. I have had (indoor!) parrots of various types for years and had always wanted some chickens, but figured that I would wait to have them until I had a bigger yard, cooler environment, had everything perfect, etc. Long story short is I came home from a week out of town to find 4 chicks in my garage and my honey 'hiding out' nowhere to be seen

So....all I really know is that we have two Bantams (one a blonde and one darker). I suspect the blonde Bantam is a rooster, and two larger very fluffy fuzzball chicks (one blonde, one a series of browns). I think they're about 7 days old, so they've got heat lamps, water and starter feed. We've got the Bantams in their own bin together as the larger chicks were beating up on them a bit. They all seem active, scratching, eating and drinking. The darker Bantam is pretty small and has needed some TLC with a condition (something the shop told my honey was called "poop butt"

. I never thought I'd be giving a chick a 'sitz bath' a couple of times a day but there you are. It/she is still small but seems to be growing slowly the condition seems to be getting better.

My honey is researching coops and came across a modular one called a chicken pod (I think). Have any of you used these? I also am concerned about whether or not to let them 'free range' in our yard. We have the 6' concrete block walls and gates, but we do have a pool and a large koi pond. I'm worried about the water as an attractant/hazard. Have any of you had problems with large water sources like these? We haven't had problems with wild birds but I don't know how chickens would react.

The yard is a combination of river rock and white/tan sand/gravel. There are lots of low growing hedges and shrubs throughout the yard, on an automatic watering system. I know the rock/gravel might get too hot during the day. We could probably take up some of the gravel and get bare earth around the coop. There isn't any grass, but there are a lot of insects (crickets, etc of course). I have read about misters and frozen water bottles, which sound like a good idea in the heat. I was also thinking of a shade structure over the coop......

If any of you have words of wisdom I would love it! I am reading this site but have just started, so I apologize if many f these questions have been answered already.

I want to make sure my new babies have a nice safe home!

thanks,

Lisa