Arizona Chickens

[MagicChicken]

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Chicks peep a lot when they are trying to find the rest of the flock. This is one reason I leave the early-hatching chicks in the hatcher until the main part of the hatch is over. Chicks still in the eggs will sometimes peep a little, too, so the early-hatching chicks know they are not totally alone. It also seems like the peeping early chicks act like cheerleaders for the chicks who are still trying to get out of their eggs. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing?

In my hatcher I support the eggs in cut-out sections of egg cartons, so early-hatching chicks won't accidentally roll the later-hatching eggs around. If your hatching eggs are just lying there on their sides it may be better not to leave the early-hatching chicks in the hatcher after they are dry and rested. Chicks have a hard enough getting out of an egg without some older sibling kicking their egg around and knocking them out of position.

 

[Born2blove]

That looks like a nice setup. While they are in the tractor do they have access to shade or a sheltered place where they can get out of the weather (sun, wind, rain) and hide from predators? It might be there. I just can't see it in the video. The birds look happy running around

It will be hot in most parts of Arizona in a few weeks. Supposed to be 80 degrees F in southwest Tucson tomorrow. The last couple of years it has hit 100 degrees F at my place in March. The early hot weather has made spring gardening difficult.

This tractor attach to the coop, at night they go to the Coop for sleep, in the coop the heat lamp turn on at night. Next weekend I will Build Feeder and auto water for them.

 

[DesertChic]

thank you! ....Good Question, but I'm not sure I know!

..... only a 4 hours old! He/she is a barnyard mix. ....
I'm thinking Rhode Island Red with BCM?...
Waiting for the leghorn mixes to hatch!!

**My daughter asked me to ask, ,, WHO Knows, ,, How to Quiet A SINGLE BABY CHICK peeping like crazy???

They peep like crazy when they first hatch, and they keep it up for quite a while until they settle in with other hatchlings. If you think about it....it's got to be pretty darn scary to go from the closely confined, safe, and relatively dark environment in the egg to the big open world, filled with light and sights they can't possibly understand yet. They spent the past 21+ days soaking in liquid, safe, and now they're breathing air and have these limbs that just don't seem to function properly at the onset. They peep like crazy at first because of distress. Once they adjust and settle in with other chicks they develop a new "normal" and make far less noise, only peeping when they're distressed for some reason as a call for help. I've found that it takes up to 2 hours for my newborns to finally settle down and adjust to the world, but they adjust more quickly when there are others there for them to snuggle in with. They're really not that different from human babies.

 

[cyborg]

FIRST CHICKEN PEN UP THIS WEEKEND!

Got the first pen up this weekend, it is chain link, 10 x 30 x 6, made of modular 10 foot x 6 foot panels. Over the next month, will be adding 2 more identical pens, one on each side. The tarps over the top are a temporary fix until the other 2 pens are added, more to keep the chickens in than keep anything else out. This morning, I will start moving some of my Jersey Giants over from the old house, and I can start waking up to roosters crowing again!

 

[DesertChic]

FIRST CHICKEN PEN UP THIS WEEKEND!

Got the first pen up this weekend, it is chain link, 10 x 30 x 6, made of modular 10 foot x 6 foot panels. Over the next month, will be adding 2 more identical pens, one on each side. The tarps over the top are a temporary fix until the other 2 pens are added, more to keep the chickens in than keep anything else out. This morning, I will start moving some of my Jersey Giants over from the old house, and I can start waking up to roosters crowing again!

Very nice!!!!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

See what I has been done for my ChiCk this weekend, My chick very happy at the first time i release them to the tractor, it run and jump, seem like they have their own playground. I wil get 4 more Silver Laced Wyandottes.

Can you have roos? I am selling one of SLW roos because he is getting picked on by the flock leader. I don't have a place to separate him out. He is a show-quality, heritage-bred roo. I got him, his bro, and two sisters at the Tucson Poultry show this fall.

 

[cyborg]

JERSEYS CHECKING OUT THE NEW DIGS

Brought over the first group of 5 this morning, one roo and four hens. They like it! Had no idea they were that hard to catch, took me about 20 minutes to corral these 5!

 

[Born2blove]

Can you have roos? I am selling one of SLW roos because he is getting picked on by the flock leader. I don't have a place to separate him out. He is a show-quality, heritage-bred roo. I got him, his bro, and two sisters at the Tucson Poultry show this fall.

Sorry I like to have one too, but I don't thing my neighbour allow me to have one.

 

[MagicChicken]

JERSEYS CHECKING OUT THE NEW DIGS



Brought over the first group of 5 this morning, one roo and four hens. They like it! Had no idea they were that hard to catch, took me about 20 minutes to corral these 5!

When I have to move birds I do it at night. Just go in and pick them off their roosts. Easier than chasing them all over creation in the daytime

 

[cyborg]

When I have to move birds I do it at night.  Just go in and pick them off their roosts.  Easier than chasing them all over creation in the daytime

Kind of tough for me because I work at night (so I also don't get up real early). Maybe I need to schedule some weekend time!