Arizona Chickens

[Angelray]

Chicken Math strikes again!!

You guys may recall I rehomed an Ameracauna last week due to a problematic crop. Well that left room in the brooder! Soooo, I picked up a 2nd salmon. favarolle from CL that is the same age as my 2 red stars. I am amazed to see the difference in their size....mine are huge compared to hers! I had gotten a welsummer from her back in June that turned out to be a rooster & she agreed to exchange him for a pullet from the same shipment. The hen was tiny compared to my other birds. She is finally larger than my Warvek & favarolle which are the smallest in my flock. I think its because she keeps them cooped & mine free range. I will post pix of my new girl tomorrow!

 

[kpgoldstar]

Chicken Math strikes again!!

You guys may recall I rehomed an Ameracauna last week due to a problematic crop. Well that left room in the brooder! Soooo, I picked up a 2nd salmon. favarolle from CL that is the same age as my 2 red stars. I am amazed to see the difference in their size....mine are huge compared to hers! I had gotten a welsummer from her back in June that turned out to be a rooster & she agreed to exchange him for a pullet from the same shipment. The hen was tiny compared to my other birds. She is finally larger than my Warvek & favarolle which are the smallest in my flock. I think its because she keeps them cooped & mine free range. I will post pix of my new girl tomorrow!

Oh, congrats! Can't wait for pics!

 

[MandyFitch]

Chicken Butts. I don't know why this cracks me up so much!

 

[our1stfarm]

our1stfarm. Cool coop, I like it. But, if you did do your research, will it hold up to chicken math?

Thanks!!
We've already realized that was our first mistake! We will sadly have to keep the flock to 3....well maybe 4...until we are ready to move and build a bigger coop. We would love to have more property to do alot of the things we want in the backyard. Unfortunately, that wasn't a priority for us when we moved into our rental about 3 years ago. We plan on buying, hopefully in 2015. Somewhere in our area with as much backyard as we can afford!

 

[Demosthine]

Thanks!!
We've already realized that was our first mistake! We will sadly have to keep the flock to 3....well maybe 4...until we are ready to move and build a bigger coop. We would love to have more property to do alot of the things we want in the backyard. Unfortunately, that wasn't a priority for us when we moved into our rental about 3 years ago. We plan on buying, hopefully in 2015. Somewhere in our area with as much backyard as we can afford!

That's part of our problem, too. Despite our large lot, it still isn't big enough. That's part of why my wife opposes my turkey plan for spring. We already have fifteen chickens, three adult rabbits and two baby rabbits that will be sticking around. I'd love a couple of goats and a mini-Jersey, too. Milk is just so expensive! And I'd love to expand her garden to three times the size, although I need to chicken-proof it first!

Once you start, it's like you become a hoarder. Everywhere you look, it's like "Hey, he would contribute to my homestead by... (fill in the blank).

 

[flower]

Thanks!!
We've already realized that was our first mistake! We will sadly have to keep the flock to 3....well maybe 4...until we are ready to move and build a bigger coop. We would love to have more property to do alot of the things we want in the backyard. Unfortunately, that wasn't a priority for us when we moved into our rental about 3 years ago. We plan on buying, hopefully in 2015. Somewhere in our area with as much backyard as we can afford!

My poultry habit started almost twenty years ago. i was lucky to have five acres but most of it was wooded. Anyway some one gave me a eight by ten shed that I adapted with windows and boxes and of course paint.

But eventually I moved where I needed something more compact and I built a coop similar to yours. And then I built three more of the same with a little variation on the theme. The top half lifts off the bottom waist high table. I dragged three or four chain link kennels all the way across the three thousand miles. Crazy fanatic

that I am ! But my setup is fairly portable if I have enough help.

BTW Welcome to the BYC

 

[cbnovick]

I'll be selling heritage turkeys next year and I don't have a minimum if picked up here. And no shipping stress on the poults. I have a lot of varieties. Buy local!

Totally agree

 

[City farm]

Yeah   being part of backyard chickens opens up a whole new world.   !!!   It is a very productive "interest group"  as Pete Segeer and/or Arlo Guthrie would say 
"It's a movement !"    In fact for the old timers it  WAS  Arlo who said that in ALICE'S RESTAURANT. 

Seriously yous guys, sustainablity is significant.  Locally grown food is more nutritious and it saves on greenhouse gas emissions.  And I am not kiddin !    

Love locally home grown fresh foods..

 

[maryhysong]

Love locally home grown fresh foods..

yep; that roo in the crockpot is mighty tasty ;-)

 

[MandyFitch]

Is anybody up to answer a quick question? My chickens haven't learned to sleep on the roosts yet. At ten weeks they all still sleep in a pile, or just spread out in the hay. Now it's pouring rain and the dummies are still just sitting there when they could easily migrate to the second floor or at least to a couple of roosts.

Should I pick them up and put them in the second floor or will they just freak out. They do not like to be handled.

Added: I don't think they're getting wet directly - there's a roof over their heads but only hardware cloth all around. No walls on the first floor.