Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

im a little lost....do you buy your FF? and who is Bakers?

Yes we order online then pick it up at a nursery called BAKERS.. It is in phx..
Go to phoenixorganicfeed.com the list of all of the products is there..

 

[City farm]

Hello. I am in Tucson (NE side) and looking for very young chicks (0-3 days old). I would like to place a few with two sweet broody hens, one of which successfully hatched an adopted egg this morning! I would be so happy to be able to give them more babies Did anyone have an (overly) successful Easter hatch with chicks to spare? Thanks!

Awhee how adorable... Hope you find some, keep us posted along with what breeds you get.. Love your photo.. &

 

[City farm]

I finally broke down and bought one of those fly trap things. How long after you add the water are you supposed to get the dead corpse putrid smell? I assumed it was instant but apparently not? Or I got a dud? I filled it around 3 hours ago and nothing. No smell, no flies. The package just says replace every 30 days or when it gets full. Doesn't say when the attractant becomes active.

Same here. It had no smell this time.. I did buy the liquid to replace the powder from the feed store.. & boy does it smell. I put it on our property line, warned the neighbors about the smell.. Just checked on it, about 20 fly's. Not very many in my opion.. I would love to see hundreds.. . Ther has got to be another way of catching those bugs...

 

[kpgoldstar]

im a little lost....do you buy your FF? and who is Bakers?

I'm sure City will answer but I think she may have quoted the wrong post. Some of the valley people order an organic feed and it is picked up at a place called Baker's... or something like that.

 

[City farm]

I got my freezer for my Odyssey. It is 2.8 cu ft has a fast freeze feature (eat energy), otherwise very efferent.

I have my Honda EU2000i generator and companion, a folding wagon, everything is falling in place. e
I am so excited.

Then there is my girls. I will miss them so much. But they will not enjoy traveling at this point in their lives. But! I have peeps coming along.

That is so cool.. When do ya hit the road?

 

[kpgoldstar]

Yes we order online then pick it up at a nursery called BAKERS.. It is in phx..
Go to phoenixorganicfeed.com the list of all of the products is there..

So just for the record City, are you buying already fermented feed? Or are you talking about the organic feed you buy that you ferment yourself? I think this is what littlechiken is confused about.

 

[City farm]

I got my freezer for my Odyssey. It is 2.8 cu ft has a fast freeze feature (eat energy), otherwise very efferent. I have my Honda EU2000i generator and companion, a folding wagon, everything is falling in place. e I am so excited. Then there is my girls. I will miss them so much. But they will not enjoy traveling at this point in their lives. But! I have peeps coming along.

Lady - thanks for the play by play. It is exciting hearing about your prepping and anticipated launch. I feel like I am along for the ride. I know you have been through some very difficult times of late and am so happy you are seeming to be very excited about your upcoming chapter. You deserve to be happy and excited at this time in life. I'm wishing you all the best and hope you will remain in contact with this thread to let us know where you are and how you are.

X2!!! Yes keep us posted.. Someday I will be doing this exact same thing... We live to be on the open road.. Now I have that song stuck in my head, "ON THE ROAD AGAIN, I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET ON THE ROAD AGAIN"

 

[City farm]

kpgoldstar, your fly bag is probably reeking pretty well now, so this is moot...but I noticed mine emitting stench 1-2 days later.  It takes a while to work up the reek. 

I spread the Arbico fly eliminator yesterday.  In a week or two, I will report back. 

Is arbico fly eleminator something you spread out or ???? I will look it up, yes keep us posted... I have been off for a few weeks.. Just catching up..
We might have roasted marshmallow's Saturday night.. I will post Saturday around lunch if we do.. Hope some of ya can make it..

 

[City farm]

Misters for chickens--what is the appropriate height to set up misters in the run?   I've been hesitant to do it, but I'm setting up my drip irrigation again, and might as well see if I can hook up a mister or two in the chicken run.

5-6 feet

 

[City farm]

I buy the Rescue brand disposable fly traps. Flies are a big problem here, it is not just my birds---I have several close by neighbors who have multiple horses. 5 or 6 horses on the one property, and also a cow. I get mine at valleyvet.com, 24 at a time, comes to $3.69 each with free shipping. As soon as one slows down in catching flies, I hang another one nearby but leave the first one up.
When the weather is cool, they catch more if you hang them in the sun, then reverse that when the weather gets hot.

The one big mistake I made was last year, I took all the dried flies and scattered them in the pens for the chickens. I figured good protein, right? Well I have been having tapeworm problems. My birds don't free range, so they are not getting that many bugs, only the few foolish enough to venture into a chicken pen. I read in The Chicken Health Handbook that houseflies are an intermediate host for one species of tapeworm. I suspect the flies I gave them. There was a 5-gal bucket 1/2 filled with dried flies, collected over many months: imagine how many flies that was?? So do yourself and your birds a favor and throw those fly traps away when full.

Wow, that is a lt of flys... Never thought to feed them flys.. Have you tried to start a meal worm colony??