Arizona Chickens

[cyborg]

@moms3cuties , here is an update on the pen construction. Please ignore all the tools and material debris, it is a work in progress!



This pic is of the north side




and this is the south side.....




east side....




and the view from my bedroom window.

The next pen will go up on the south side (the left side of the pic above). All it takes is time and money!

 

[kacklinkelly]

WOW that is an amazing set up Cyborg! You are no slacker that's for sure! How many chickens do you ultimately want?

 

[cyborg]

Well, right now I have 40 (I think! they are pretty quick), but there are only 20 in that pen, the rest are still at my old house. Ultimately, I want to breed Jersey Giants, Partridge Cochins, and Ameraucanas. The way the chicken math works, I will never be done building. Hmmm....maybe some Welsumers.....

 

[cgmaster]

Anybody have some brown red ameraucana hens?

 

[moms3cuties]

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[/]ChuskaMtns[@/]

Thank you for the lovely Marans eggs to hatch!!! =D It was nice to meet you today and a privilege to have some of your eggs that you have invested so much time, energy and money in! You definitely have a world full of good and practical information!

I'm sure I will enjoy the baby chicks as chicks are some of my favorite parts of owning my own backyard chickens! These future babies proper name is ____________ Marans, if you don't mind reminding me as I'm STILL learning and consider myself a newbie.
If I have eggs that I can't place or fit in my incubator, who knows how you keep them until you can put them in an incubator for hatching later on? Do these others need to be refrigerated and then brought out to warm up at room temperature and then placed it in the incubator at a later desired time?

I hold hatching eggs in an egg carton on my kitchen counter until I have enough collected to go in the incubator. I keep one end of the carton tilted up and I rotate the carton several times a day so different ends are propped up. It's an easy way of turning the eggs. (I find that the 18 count cartons are more stable than the 12 count cartons when using this method of turning.) Try not to hold the eggs more than a week or ten days before putting them in the incubator.

Do not put hatching eggs in the refrigerator.

If you have too many eggs to fit in your incubator, maybe you could borrow another incubator from someone? Or pick up a second incubator? I like the two incubator method - one for incubating and one for hatching. Lets you incubate eggs at different stages in one incubator, and makes post-hatching cleanup MUCH easier.

Thank you! Helpful info

 

[moms3cuties]

WOW that is an amazing set up Cyborg! You are no slacker that's for sure! How many chickens do you ultimately want?

Wow...x2

Well, right now I have 40 (I think! they are pretty quick), but there are only 20 in that pen, the rest are still at my old house. Ultimately, I want to breed Jersey Giants, Partridge Cochins, and Ameraucanas. The way the chicken math works, I will never be done building. Hmmm....maybe some Welsumers.....

........yes,,

chicken math is a becoming a bit of an expensive hobby I'd say myself!

 

[houdiniduck]

Lockdown for the polish eggs and the one barnyard mix. I'm pulling my hair out in nervousness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DesertChic]

Well, right now I have 40 (I think! they are pretty quick), but there are only 20 in that pen, the rest are still at my old house. Ultimately, I want to breed Jersey Giants, Partridge Cochins, and Ameraucanas. The way the chicken math works, I will never be done building. Hmmm....maybe some Welsumers.....

That really is a great looking setup you've got in progress there!

I remember laughing the first time I heard the term "chicken math". Now the my "let's just start with 4-6 chickens" has increased to 21 and is on its way to as many as 40...yeah, I get it.

 

[DesertChic]

Lockdown for the polish eggs and the one barnyard mix. I'm pulling my hair out in nervousness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sending good thoughts your way. This is the hardest part, isn't it? I think I developed new ulcers during my first egg lockdown and when days 21 and 22 came and went without a pip I just about had a breakdown. So when my hubby woke me up at 3:00 a.m.a on day 23 to tell me there were two chicks flopping around the incubator I wasn't the least bit upset at the sleep interruption and nearly wept with relief. We are a rare and wonderful breed, us chicken lovers.

 

[City farm]

Burt is chasing around both jungle fowl, "pretty & tiny" they are out and about most of the day ignoring him.. They are fast so he get's a run for his $ however that means their egg's are fertile.. @K9Dave has the only 2 jungle fowl /barnyard mix, that we hatched out..

is Bert pretty friendly and does he like to be held?

No, he won't come around like before his no crow colar..