Arizona Chickens

[pimachickens]

This is the meeting info for Sunday For Tucson [COLOR=141823]
Zen Hens is hosting an event! Merrill Eisenburg has agreed to give us a presentation on the new Sustainable Land use Code she has been helping author for the city of Tucson. She will review the effort underway to revise the City’s zoning regulations on urban agriculture, including farmers’ markets, community gardens, urban farms, and the keeping of small animals. This meeting is educational but will also be a platform to come up with strategies to make these new policies more acceptable to neighborhood associations.
This will be at the Food Conspiracy Co-op Hoff building at 725 E. Seventh St. (directly behind the Co-op) at 1:30 on Saturday May 10th. Feel free to bring your friends or invite others who may be interesting in attending. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to meet you there!
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So is it Saturday or Sunday? The post says both.

 

[a little chiken]

So is it Saturday or Sunday? The post says both.

Pima I guess It is on Saturday, They had originally said Sunday. I will try and go but my kids have a car wash for their school booster club tomorrow from 7 - 1

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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We hosted a pot-luck dinner here at my house. About 20 people came and we talked and laughed until the last guests left, sometime after midnight. Good times! I've been thinking of doing it again.

 

[City farm]

They also have an article that lists these reasons AGAINST in the star

[COLOR=141823]Flies in the compost pile.[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]
[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]Raccoons in the hen house.[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]
[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]Traffic. Litter. Noise.[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]
[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]This is what some Tucsonans are afraid of.[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]
[/COLOR][COLOR=141823]Elena Acoba explains why — in Sunday's Star.[/COLOR]

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What is so funny about "these people" is they are thinking in error.. What a joke.. Flies, they are everywhere.. We go hicking in t the wild & they are THERE!!
We live in the raccoons area... Along with a multitude of wildlife.. They should be afraid of the angry mob of people that have rational thinking... I really don't know how else to say it and be nice.. It gets our family's blood boiling when "these people" try to do such asinine things.. Why can't we have them go live somewhere else?!! I still have not read any article's that ya all,have posted.. Family in town,work,kids, graduations,, Blablabla.. You get the just.. I will write a letter after work so someone can submit it.. Even if it is a informal meeting.. Or send us a link to email a few of the council.. For them to have a meeting on a Sunday is preposterous..I hope that you guys can make a stand for all of us..

 

[City farm]

 

 


The first one was great fun!

what did you guys do and where did you go the first time? I would love to help organize one if people are interested. 

We hosted a pot-luck dinner here at my house.  About 20 people came and we talked and laughed until the last guests left, sometime after midnight.  Good times!  I've been thinking of doing it again.

I hope we can come.. & thank you for hosting...

 

[City farm]

This is the meeting info for Sunday For Tucson [COLOR=141823]
Zen Hens is hosting an event! Merrill Eisenburg has agreed to give us a presentation on the new Sustainable Land use Code she has been helping author for the city of Tucson. She will review the effort underway to revise the City’s zoning regulations on urban agriculture, including farmers’ markets, community gardens, urban farms, and the keeping of small animals. This meeting is educational but will also be a platform to come up with strategies to make these new policies more acceptable to neighborhood associations.
This will be at the Food Conspiracy Co-op Hoff building at 725 E. Seventh St. (directly behind the Co-op) at 1:30 on Saturday May 10th. Feel free to bring your friends or invite others who may be interesting in attending. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to meet you there!
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So is it Saturday or Sunday? The post says both.

Now we are talking... Gardens, markets, urban farms.. Now that is living..

 

[City farm]

Oh my God WHAT IS IN MY KENNEL?

What is it? Is it alive?

It is!. It is alive!
But ... But.. What is it?


It has a thing on its head... Brown on its wing... Not a chicken

It's a quail

No, no, no, WAY!! For real!???
Go into more detail. Where was your crate at? How long had it been since you looked in there ? When did you put shavings in.. Huh!!
Are you just pulling our leg??

 

[City farm]

I am sure it is a native Quail. I have had a lot on my plater, that area has been un disturbed, and my chickens are close by. I have no Ida when she decided that it was a perfect place, clean, soft, protected, yet well ventilated. It just seems strange to make a nest in 2.5 ft of a door to a house.

The picture will be the last time I bother her. I will go on with the yard clean up. I talked to Chris and she agreed. Not to move anything around her or the shelving until the eggs hatch and she is gone. I do not know how long she has been there, how long it takes to incubate quail eggs. I hope she will be gone with her brood by the time I am done.

Her nest is a good 4' up, when the peeps come out they will fall thru the wire shelves. It is quite a drop. But Wood Ducks nest in trees and high up, and their hatchlings are very fluffy and have been dropping out of trees for ever.

A little photo shop

Just looked it up 21-23 days, she should be gone before 5/7th June.

Oh girl blessings from above.. How cool is that!! I can't wait to hear more about her & the new babies.. I will ask my friend about days to hatch.. Someone might have all ready chimed in on it in a later post.. I am getting threw them as quick as I can...

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

They made me an admin on Tucson Clucks and it is the site that was posted in the article. I have been suggesting BYC because a lot of people have questions and this site has so many answers from experienced people. I am no expert but I do try to keep informed. I guess I need to read more forums here on BYC myself although I feel many of the hours of my day are spent lurking through all the forums....who knew there could be so much to learn about chickens? I mean we only throw food and water to them and eggs magically appear right? ok just kidding but seriously I have raised chickens off and on my whole life and I feel very uneducated compared to most of you. I think if I feel this way I can only imagine how a person feels that was raised in the city. Urban farming is a fad (we can only hope it lasts). I will continue to bring you whatever info I get or any questions I am asked. I know that they are asking for families with kids to do a interview with KVOA about the salmonella outbreak from the hatchery. They have this article posted all over FB http://www1.kvoa.com/news/cdc-mail-order-chicks-infect-63-people/
I think the timing of this article release is interesting in light of the upcoming meetings for urban farming in Tucson.

First, I want to say thanks for your activism on this issue. I very much appreciate what you're doing! However, I would not call urban farming here in Tucson a fad. In fact, we are only returning to the ways things were, at least here in my neighborhood. I've had some great conversations with my neighbors, one who was the first to move into the neighborhood in 1947 and her daughter, who was born in 1964 and raised in the house across the street and then moved into the adjacent house as an adult. They told me fantastic stories about how it seemed that nearly everyone in the neighborhood had chickens. The daughter told me that all through the 60's and 70's the sounds of roosters crowing were a big part of the background noise growing up in the neighborhood. Even though they never owned chickens, they loved that people were raising them again in the neighborhood as the sounds were very nostalgic. They also really liked the eggs I gave them. Too bad they moved to Santa Fe, its people just like them that need to tell their stories too. I think folks have always had gardens and raised chickens in Tucson. Sure, more and more people are raising food in the city again, more and more for reasons of food security. Unfortunately, I don't think food security is a fad.

ETA: I live right in the center of Tucson, just east of Reid Park.

 

[City farm]

More blessings from above..