Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

Pics of my cochies...... Such sweeties...

Did you hand raise them? Or do you think it is the breed?

 

[carnivore]

.......with a bunch of scruffy, knock-kneed, pinch-tailed, crow-headed birds....

LOL! define crow headed!

 

[City farm]

I have a BO that has a bare back because of a rooster and no feathers seem to be growing in.  I'm getting ready to turn another set of pullets out with the big chickens and there's a rooster in the bunch.  Need to get some chicken aprons but have not been able to find them up here in any of the feed stores.  Anyone know of a place I can order some?  She's also getting sunburned and I've been putting sun screen on her back.

Agh, you are a good mom... I am glad we don't have a rooster right now.. The girls seem to be calmer.. Or maybe it is just me.. Their feathers are starting to look better.. Our two roosters were only bantams..Our girls are not that bad, mostly behind their comb.. Hope you find some aprons..

 

[a little chiken]

Did you hand raise them? Or do you think it is the breed?

thats what he calls his hatchery cochins. he is silly.

 

[City farm]

I think it was someplace in Russia over 25 or 30 years ago, that trying to make the fox easier to handle for the fur coat trade tried to tame them. It worked, to well. They are wonderful pets, half dog half cat, and very playful. Unfortunately, they are useless as fur coats. Now they have curled or straight tails, pointed or flop years, and a thick coat of many spots and colors. As of yet, to my last hearing about them, they are unable to get them as yet to breed true, but now the other part. They are a happy tail wagging people loving pet like animal.... Hard to look at as a fur product. All they wanted was a fox that would not take your and off when you feed them or took care of them, easier and safer to handle. Not getting your faced licked for joy when you handle them.

Who could make that into a fur coat.... And now, apparently, still hunters, but don't know what to once anything is caught. Play with it? Make it your friend?

Agh, cuties..

 

[City farm]

How do you check if she is egg bound? I'm in Phx and won't be home until 430. She laid an egg yesterday.

Whatever happened here?

Yeah, hope the hen is ok?

 

[moms3cuties]

I love any k9. Beautiful little thing. Thanks for sharing.

Foxes aren't a type of k-9 : ). Closely related to cats. Go figure. Like javelina are not pigs and tomatoes aren't vegetables. Makes me crazy.

Oh yeh that's right. Just look like them. Javelina are rodents right?

According to Wikipedia they are a type of canid so "related to domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and many other lesser known extant and extinct dog-like mammals." 

"The gray fox is mainly distinguished from most other canids by its grizzled upper parts, strong neck and black-tipped tail, while the skull can be easily distinguished from all other North American canids by its widely separated temporal ridges that form a U-shape. There is little sexual dimorphism, save for the females being slightly smaller than males. The gray fox ranges from 76 to 112.5 cm (29.9 to 44.3 in) in total length. The tail measures 27.5 to 44.3 cm (10.8 to 17.4 in) of that length and its hind feet measure 100 to 150 mm (3.9 to 5.9 in). The gray fox typically weighs 3.6 to 7 kg (7.9 to 15.4 lb), though exceptionally can weigh as much as 9 kg (20 lb).[SUP][12][/SUP][SUP][13][/SUP][SUP][14][/SUP] It is readily differentiated from the red fox by the lack of "black stockings" that stand out on the latter and the stripe of black hair that runs along the middle of the tail. In contrast to all Vulpes and related (Arctic and fennec) foxes, the gray fox has oval (instead of slit-like) pupils.[SUP][15][/SUP]
The gray fox's ability to climb trees is shared only with the Asian raccoon dog among canids. Its strong, hooked claws allow it to scramble up trees to escape many predators such as the domestic dog or the coyote,[SUP][16][/SUP] or to reach tree-bound or arboreal food sources. It can climb branchless, vertical trunks to heights of 18 meters and jump from branch to branch.[SUP][17][/SUP] It descends primarily by jumping from branch to branch, or by descending slowly backwards as a domestic cat would do. The gray fox is nocturnal or crepuscular and dens in hollow trees, stumps or appropriated burrows during the day. Such gray fox tree dens may be located 30 ft above the ground.[SUP][15][/SUP] Prior to European colonization of North America, the red fox was found primarily in boreal forest and the gray fox in deciduous forest, but now the red fox is dominant in most of the eastern United States since they are the more adaptable species to development and urbanization.[SUP][18][/SUP] In areas where both red and gray foxes exist, the gray fox is dominant.[SUP][19][/SUP]"
My son is a big fox fan, loves everything about them.  (Except I wonder how he would like it if one ate his favorite chicken? )  He was very happy they let the little fox go instead of killing it like one of the guys wanted to.

I think they are more closely to the deer.

Lol, ,,,,,, your ALL very Funny!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
head is shaped like a crow's. Definitely not desired for most breeds. It is a common term.

 

[carnivore]

head is shaped like a crow's.  Definitely not desired for most breeds.  It is a common term.

OK, I guess I'll have to admit I never really looked closely at a crow's head. I guess they have a longer bill, other than that, how is their head differently shaped than a chicken's?

 

[AZKat]

City Fam: I hope that I didn't give you a BR by accident, i tried to give you what I was pretty sure were SLWs and Australorps. I'm curious to find out what the brown mystery chick is, I hope you'll keep me posted.