Arizona Chickens

[K9Dave]

That looks very nice. I have to store that one away for my permanent domain. For now we're renting and I want to keep the whole thing removable. Thorns wouldn't be fun. Other suggestions for the same general plant but no thorns and could be easily torn out with the chicken wire if need be?

 

[MagicChicken]

Happiness is getting waked up at 1 am by a bunch of roosters crowing, and realizing that - for once - it isn't YOUR roosters waking up the 'hood.

Even happier when you realize the crowing is coming from several different directions, so there must be a lot more chicken people in the neighborhood than there used to be.
Life is good

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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Very good point about the lower gph nozzles. That could save a lot of water! Yeah, even though the timer only turns on automatically a max of four times a day, it has a handy little button you can push to manually turn it on as many times a day as you need.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Happiness is getting waked up at 1 am by a bunch of roosters crowing, and realizing that - for once - it isn't YOUR roosters waking up the 'hood.

Even happier when you realize the crowing is coming from several different directions, so there must be a lot more chicken people in the neighborhood than there used to be.
Life is good

Yeah, that's a great feeling!

In the past couple weeks I've started hearing a new rooster coming from a house on my block that I never knew had chickens.

 

[Syl in Tucson]

Are you outside city limits? My neighbors would turn me in before the cock crowed 3 times. Lol

 

[pipemum]

Did anyone catch the blurb on local NPR this morning? I missed most of it, but it was about the city (Tucson) and the update to the small animal 'livestock' rules. I'm been rather passive throughout this update, but man, Colette Altaffer really ****** me off. I'll be at the meeting on Tuesday evening, just because she got me so riled up. Here's a link to the show: oh, well, no link for me, Arizona Public Media is blocked from work.

 

[Syl in Tucson]

This morning I raked for what seemed like forever. Went inside to take a phone call and when I came back, my wonderful hens had taken apart the lovely pile and dispersed it throughout the yard. My own words came back to me .."Son, when you sweep or rake, never leave the pile. It only takes a moment to finish the job."

 

[Syl in Tucson]

No, I missed it. Gonna look it up though. I thought the rules were pretty clear and fair in Tucson. Hope I don't run afoul. (Couldn't resist)

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

All this is just opinion from experience of course.

. It is very true, but as it is mentioned, we are confining them, we take them every whare. Need to concieder the breed. The comb will give you an indication as to thier heat tallerance.

Pea combs are cold weather, the small tight combs are less likely to freeze. The single comb will freeze in cold enough temps. They are warm weather chickens. Many English bred chicken just plan suffer in heat like Arizona. Chickens from the Mediteranian, Indonesia and such are best fore Arizona. They were bred with extrem heat in many locations. I found out that summer diet is important. I learned, tradgicly that I was giving my girls to hot a diet with corn in it and I had fat suffering chickens.

We buy our chickens as fanciers, and have Wyandottes, and Orpingtons and heavy fluffy feathered chickens. We need to go a little further to help them deal with 115deg. And low humidity. Face it we are asking a lot of our animals. A/C and other extrem cooling measures will probably do more harm then good.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Did anyone catch the blurb on local NPR this morning? I missed most of it, but it was about the city (Tucson) and the update to the small animal 'livestock' rules. I'm been rather passive throughout this update, but man, Colette Altaffer really ****** me off. I'll be at the meeting on Tuesday evening, just because she got me so riled up. Here's a link to the show: oh, well, no link for me, Arizona Public Media is blocked from work.

I missed that this morning. Did you find it online before it wouldn't let you link? Maybe you could describe how to find it? I just looked and came up empty handed.