Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

City farm, we got 2 EE's today and will be getting 2 cuckoo marans and 2 buckeyes on Fri.

Just saw this... We got welsumers.. We are hoping their eggs are as dark as the Marans ... Gona have to look up buckeyes..

 

[pipemum]

Does anyone here keep brahmas? My 9 week old brahmas were panting yesterday, at 6pm. If they were hot yesterday evening, it's going to be a rough 2-3 months for them (after which, they'll be dinner). I guess I'll start setting out pans of water for them to cool their feathered little feet.

I'm still holding out hope that some of these brahmas are female. As of yet, I see no signs of pointy feathers. Lots of roo-like posturing though, for sure. Combs are all 3-row, but I've been searching online, and many, many hens have 3-row pea combs. I may be giving some of these brahmas away...my husband swears one was trying to crow and there is no way that I'll be butchering the crowing culprit at such a small size.

I put the little gray silkie mix in with the big girls last night. I definitely had to referee while they settled in the coop and showed the mean ones who is really the boss. The gray did NOT want to go in with the meaties last night, so it was obviously time. She wandered into the meatie pen this morning and I thought, well okay, and shut the door, and she was there wanting out, out, out. I hope she's okay with the layers, but I won't know till late tonight. I'll say, it is nice having a friendly chicken, I didn't think those really existed--she's suddenly all about hanging around me, letting me hold her and pet her and generally acting sweet. I suppose I should ask my daughter if she remembers her name so I can stop calling her the gray one. I think she might be Twinkle Star, lol.

eta: I didn't think about this till just now but if the brahmas were hot, then surely the last two cornish crosses must be hot as well. I hope they don't plop over from heat exhaustion today...they are super healthy and beautiful (and they sound like geese, honk honk), but they are awfully big and nearing their supposed life span anyway. Eek. One more day and I can process them.

eta again: I emailed Ideal Poultry to ask them if I should hold out hope for the brahma packing peanuts to be female. I wonder if I'll get a response or if they are worried about PR from admitting that they send male chicks as literally disposable items. I did mention I'm raising them for meat, so maybe they won't think I'm an undercover bunny hugger?

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I was watching an old Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare. Chief Ramsay brings out a bunch of chickens, saying these are from the flock he gets all his eggs from and they are LegBars, they are remarkable layers.

I am looking forward to getting pass this week end. Saying final good buy to mom.

 

[Sill]

We picked out our first 2 chicks. We'll bring them home Fri when the other 2 breeds we are getting come in. So excited!





I think we decided on My Little Pony names for a theme. Our 4yo thinks it's a great idea.

As mom to a brony I approve.

Does anyone here keep brahmas? My 9 week old brahmas were panting yesterday, at 6pm. If they were hot yesterday evening, it's going to be a rough 2-3 months for them (after which, they'll be dinner). I guess I'll start setting out pans of water for them to cool their feathered little feet.

I'm still holding out hope that some of these brahmas are female. As of yet, I see no signs of pointy feathers. Lots of roo-like posturing though, for sure. Combs are all 3-row, but I've been searching online, and many, many hens have 3-row pea combs. I may be giving some of these brahmas away...my husband swears one was trying to crow and there is no way that I'll be butchering the crowing culprit at such a small size.

I put the little gray silkie mix in with the big girls last night. I definitely had to referee while they settled in the coop and showed the mean ones who is really the boss. The gray did NOT want to go in with the meaties last night, so it was obviously time. She wandered into the meatie pen this morning and I thought, well okay, and shut the door, and she was there wanting out, out, out. I hope she's okay with the layers, but I won't know till late tonight. I'll say, it is nice having a friendly chicken, I didn't think those really existed--she's suddenly all about hanging around me, letting me hold her and pet her and generally acting sweet. I suppose I should ask my daughter if she remembers her name so I can stop calling her the gray one. I think she might be Twinkle Star, lol.

eta: I didn't think about this till just now but if the brahmas were hot, then surely the last two cornish crosses must be hot as well. I hope they don't plop over from heat exhaustion today...they are super healthy and beautiful (and they sound like geese, honk honk), but they are awfully big and nearing their supposed life span anyway. Eek. One more day and I can process them.

eta again: I emailed Ideal Poultry to ask them if I should hold out hope for the brahma packing peanuts to be female. I wonder if I'll get a response or if they are worried about PR from admitting that they send male chicks as literally disposable items. I did mention I'm raising them for meat, so maybe they won't think I'm an undercover bunny hugger?

Well otherwise all those males just get destroyed, might as well send them out hoping for people to raise them for meat.

Bunny hugger? I thought it was tree hugger?

 

[Sill]

How are everyone's chickens doing with the sudden heat? Mine were gaping and panting this afternoon. I dread hooking up the misters this early, I need to put out the pot saucers for them to wade in.

My cortunix quail chicks seem to handle the heat better than the chickens. They are several generations desert bred so must be better than hatchery chickens from cold country at dealing with heat.

 

[a little chiken]

How are everyone's chickens doing with the sudden heat? Mine were gaping and panting this afternoon. I dread hooking up the misters this early, I need to put out the pot saucers for them to wade in.

My cortunix quail chicks seem to handle the heat better than the chickens. They are several generations desert bred so must be better than hatchery chickens from cold country at dealing with heat.

My girls were panting but I go out mid day and check water and spray down the pens. We use nipple waters in my big coop but when it gets hot I add some pans of water for them to lay in. They love it when I spray the pen down. They play in the dirt and scratch all around. Love to make them happy.

 

[MagicChicken]

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Mine are hot but not outrageously so. This is a good way to get them acclimated. The nights are still cool. It hit 99 degrees at my house a little while ago. Now it's cooled down to 98

 

[ChicksOfHazzard]

So we've had quite the adventure today. I came home yesterday and Our very sweet Boss Hogg had lost her voice. I couldn't find anything helpful on the forums about it. Seems it's happened to a few people but since she wasn't symptomatic in any other way, it was a mystery. I think I went into hyper-chondria this morning because I swore she was walking funny and I got really worried. My friend, who is a nearby vet and also has chickens, said to bring her in and she'd watch her until she could get in with Dr. Funk. She let Boss Hogg hang out in the treatment area and she was very popular there this morning (pecked a cat though). Btw, Dr. Funk is at Mesa VCA and works with a lot of chickens if anyone ever needs a vet. It's on Country Club and 8th.

Turns out it's chicken laryngitis probably due to a mild bacterial infection, so she's on antibiotics for the next 5-6 days. He said she's otherwise very healthy, no parasites or anything like that. But she had quite the day, I think she enjoyed her day out.

 

[roostereggs]

So we've had quite the adventure today. I came home yesterday and Our very sweet Boss Hogg had lost her voice. I couldn't find anything helpful on the forums about it. Seems it's happened to a few people but since she wasn't symptomatic in any other way, it was a mystery. I think I went into hyper-chondria this morning because I swore she was walking funny and I got really worried. My friend, who is a nearby vet and also has chickens, said to bring her in and she'd watch her until she could get in with Dr. Funk. She let Boss Hogg hang out in the treatment area and she was very popular there this morning (pecked a cat though). Btw, Dr. Funk is at Mesa VCA and works with a lot of chickens if anyone ever needs a vet. It's on Country Club and 8th.

Turns out it's chicken laryngitis probably due to a mild bacterial infection, so she's on antibiotics for the next 5-6 days. He said she's otherwise very healthy, no parasites or anything like that. But she had quite the day, I think she enjoyed her day out.

Oh, how stinkin' cute is THAT! Thanks for the photos! Hope she starts feeling better soon. I'm sure she enjoyed all the TLC!!!

 

[ChicksOfHazzard]

Oh, how stinkin' cute is THAT! Thanks for the photos! Hope she starts feeling better soon. I'm sure she enjoyed all the TLC!!!

I'm actually starting to wonder if she's a genius. It gets up to 99 degrees and all of the sudden she pulls laryngitis out of the hat and ends up spending the day in AC and getting fed and held by everyone. My corgi pretends his leg is hurt sometimes if he wants more attention. I can tell because he'll forget which leg. Lol. She doesn't like the medicine but seems to feel ok and was back to scratching an dirt baths this evening.