Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

X2..

Yeah, she bobs her head standing or walking. I suspect something neurological myself, but will try some vitamin supplements too.

Keep us posted on her..

 

[City farm]

Yes it can bee hot for them make sure you have proper shade and enough water for the  maybe a misting fan for the summer time  in the winter if it seems to cold use a heat lamp from wal-mart home depot has the light bulbs also check  with your local farm store

What breeds do you have?

 

[City farm]

Today,

....today I received two eggs, from my 18 month old leghorn and my 9 month old Rhode Island Red;

so 2 out of 11 hens actually earned their keep. :/

I also got two eggs today.  Yesterday one, the day before zero. The only one I can count on is my olive egger, she is giving me four beautiful large matte olive eggs a week since she finished her molt. And of course the quail hens are giving me 20 or so a day so over half of them are laying daily.

I wish I would of got some quail egg's from you for the New Years Eve party ths evening...
They were a huge hit last year..

 

[City farm]

Test hatch in the hatcher, five eggs due to hatch tomorrow.  One hatched more than 24 hours early.  Two others pipped a few hours later, then lay dormant for 12+ hours.  The overachiever has been peeping the whole time, wondering where all the other chickens are.  One of the pipped eggs finally started to zip but it was taking him a long time to get out.  Overachiever kept pecking at the edge of the zipping shell, like he was trying to help the chick out of the egg.  Awww, I thought.  How cute.  Now the other guy is out, I can see he has a triangular chunk cut out of the top of his beak.  Hmmm.  Maybe the overachiever wasn't "helping" at all.  Maybe he was pecking at the competition.  Good thing it is night now and I can turn out the lights.  That should give the new chick a chance to dry out and recover before morning.  Hope the other two hatch out and dry before dawn.  I'd like to move everyone to the brooder as soon as possible.

You might have mentioned what breed, ?? How many?

 

[chanticleerbird]

Thank you for the wave! I can do smiles with a colon and parenthases.

Oh yes, lots of reading! Thanks to BYC I will be an academic expert if not a practical one which, I am sure, makes a huge difference as well.

I have a dream and it is still in the beginning phases. It is a lo...o...ong term plan. I am budgeting now so I can save and buy a house on at least an acre just outside the city. I have the income but my credit needs some pretty stuff on it and I need a down payment. Once I move my rent turned mortgage payment will drop considerably. I could probably have chickens where I am at now but I am being very self-diciplined and saving my money for the better dream.

In the meanwhile, I will root and cheer everyone here on and leanr, learn, learn. I already have plans forming for "the cheapest and most beautiful coop ever", lol.

 

[City farm]

Hi Everyone,

I am new here and in Tucson. I don't have chickens yet but they are in the plan. I have bewen reading BYC for a while and have learned more than I ever thought possible about chickens! ...and numerous other subjects, building coops, composting...etc. I started feeling awkward reading and not introducing myself so instead of waiting for chickens, I joined up now to dream until then.

Nice to meet everyone!

(I would do the wave but there is no edit bar at all in my posting box.)

It will be eggciting to get your new babies, or hen's.e. Will you keep a rooster? Hopefully we wil be down that way in the next month or so..

 

[chanticleerbird]

It will be eggciting to get your new babies, or hen's.e. Will you keep a rooster? Hopefully we wil be down that way in the next month or so..

I would love a rooster! That said, my memory of the rooster we had when I was about 7 is horrible. That was THE meanest animal, worse than a feral cat, admittedly I have never had to remove a feral cat's eggs. Being grown up I see it differently, of course. My coop will have outside access to the eggs and I won't ask my children to go into the coop and fetch them with an uncontained rooster! I do want to hear his crowing in the morning, though, and due to hawks and coyotes I think it's a practical idea as well. I will, of course, make sure I have a quality coop that is hopfully predator proof, though from reading here that can be easier said than done. I am still trying to find a balance between free range and predator proof.

I will be keeping an eye out for Tucson meet ups! (and then I have to work it into my strained schedule)

 

[ChuskaMtns]

SO now that I have an incubator (thanks @flower
 and @CityFarm
 ) (money tomorrow as planned) I want to find out if anyone has fertile eggs for hatching. Unfortunately the duck eggs did not make it (they blew up) so now I want to move on. Once the duck lays again I will be doing some of her eggs, but she seems to be content to free  load for now. I would love to find some local to me stuff that I can pick up or some that you would be willing to ship. Please let me know if/what you have and how much! I am excited to start another level of my chicken obsession! 

Full size chickens, I am not ready for smaller breeds yet, have to convince the hubbs to let me have another coop.   

I have Golden Cuckoo Marans and they're very fertile! 6 of 6 eggs in the bator hatched, 5 pullets & 1 cockerel. I also have white orpingtons laying, also very fertile. That same hatch I put 3 of their eggs in & all 3 hatched, 2 pullets & 1 cockerel. Let me know if you're interested. The Marans are auto sexing at hatch, btw.

 

[moms3cuties]

SO now that I have an incubator (thanks @flower
 and @CityFarm
 ) (money tomorrow as planned) I want to find out if anyone has fertile eggs for hatching. Unfortunately the duck eggs did not make it (they blew up) so now I want to move on. Once the duck lays again I will be doing some of her eggs, but she seems to be content to free  load for now. I would love to find some local to me stuff that I can pick up or some that you would be willing to ship. Please let me know if/what you have and how much! I am excited to start another level of my chicken obsession! 

Full size chickens, I am not ready for smaller breeds yet, have to convince the hubbs to let me have another coop.   

I have Golden Cuckoo Marans and they're very fertile! 6 of 6 eggs in the bator hatched, 5 pullets & 1 cockerel. I also have white orpingtons laying, also very fertile. That same hatch I put 3 of their eggs in & all 3 hatched, 2 pullets & 1 cockerel. Let me know if you're interested. The Marans are auto sexing at hatch, btw.

I to have some very fertile eggs including an Easter Egger if you'd like so let me know I think you would enjoy a few of mine too. I would like one of those cokoo maran eggs if I may!

 

[ChuskaMtns]

I to have some very fertile eggs including an Easter Egger if you'd like so let me know I think you would enjoy a few of mine too. I would like one of those cokoo maran eggs if I may!

Only 1? You're in the East Valley, aren't you?