Arizona Chickens

[Arizonachicken]

I have a broody BA too.  I never had one before this year.  Is she going to survive this heat?  I take her off the nest a couple of times in the hottest part of the day and put her in the wading water to cool down.  She usually eats then before she goes back to the nest box.  My daughter is getting ready to go away to camp so she wants me to wait for her to get back and then give her chicks if she is still broody. Of course if we get more chicks we'll have to expand the coops.  I guess we are destined to have our legal limit of 25 hens eventually. 

I'm having trouble finding chicks to give my broody(s). Nobody is hatching at this time of year.

 

[Demosthine]

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Check with your local feed store. Pratt's and The Stock Shop have had day-old to week-old chicks every time I've gone in there. They had some really, really small ones last week when I stopped by The Stock Shop. It's funny, I don't remember mine being that small! 'Course, I say that about my fourteen month old daughter, too...

 

[pollo disco]

Hippie chicks on craigslist always advertises some also. Just a fact, not an endorsement. I got mine from feed stores.

 

[desertmarcy]

Yeah, it's like broodiness is in the air. Two of my five adult girls are broody.

Crazy birds.

I went through a spell of broodiness in my birds and broke them by putting them in my wire-bottomed cages. Now I have a whole group of broodies and it is too hot to put them in those cages. I finally got fed up with them all yesterday and moved every one of them into a different pen. Not all the same pen, just moved each in with a group of "strangers". There is a lot of chaos in the poultry house right now, but none are sitting tight on a nest

 

[Arizonachicken]

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Check with your local feed store. Pratt's and The Stock Shop have had day-old to week-old chicks every time I've gone in there. They had some really, really small ones last week when I stopped by The Stock Shop. It's funny, I don't remember mine being that small! 'Course, I say that about my fourteen month old daughter, too...[/quote/]

Those two stores are just too far from me. I called Western Ranchman and they said they won't have chicks until October. I'll try some stores in the East Valley. Anyone have any recommendations?

 

[countrygirl74]

There seem to be several people selling chicks up north here but I don't know about where you are... they are on craigslist.


So, I thought I would share this photo we took the other night of our big Doce Fire up here. Although we are not in harm's way, it really made me think through what I would need to do to evacuate all my chickens and ducks and to think about a plan...

 

[desertmarcy]

So this is my little hen that has gone broody and is sitting on three of her own eggs-we picked up three chicks back in the fall and you can see the other hen in the background. I needed some companions for a banty single chick and I thought these were 3 week old banty chicks but now realize that they were older than I thought. Anyone have any ideas on what they are?

This is the same hen but with the third chick I had picked up that turned out to be a roo. OK so we really should not have him but he is so little that he is not that loud when he crows (you can barely hear him in the front yard when he is in he coop)

To give you an idea of how small she is that is her next to my cochin hen. We have some RIR chicks from Hippie Chicks that are 5 weeks old and are as big as the hen.
So any ideas on what they could be??
Picked them up from OK Feeds back in late fall-really didn't care about the breed at the time as I needed friends for a single chick that lost its momma. But I would love to know if anyone has any ideas...

I believe she is a light brown Leghorn bantam.

 

[GreatWhiteAfro]

Got another brown egg today, seriously not sure who is laying because now my 15 week old red sex link is frequenting the nest box and clucking like crazy in it....and squatting when you pet her....Can the same chicken lay significantly different sized eggs?




And here's one of the girls enjoying a treat! How's the saying go? Happier than a hot chicken with frozen watermelon?

 

[Timskins]

There seem to be several people selling chicks up north here but I don't know about where you are... they are on craigslist.


So, I thought I would share this photo we took the other night of our big Doce Fire up here. Although we are not in harm's way, it really made me think through what I would need to do to evacuate all my chickens and ducks and to think about a plan...

Thats an incredible photo.

 

[pollo disco]

Great fire pics! Good luck and yes, a plan is needed for all us rural folk. I had the same thing with the Murphy fire down where I live. Scary to have a deputy come and say pack your stuff, you might evacuate. As for the watermelon, hella great idea. They are on sale right now and I need something to treat the ladies . I'm leaving for Portal in the morning to work on a family friends ranch. Repair and maintenance stuff. My wife said they got all sad clucky when she drove off for work this afternoon. Hot and windy days are perfect for cold watermelon.lol.