Arizona Chickens

[ChinoChix]

Hi,
Does anybody here have any chicks for sale? If so, what breeds?

I will have German Bielefelders hatching tomorrow, most are spoken for already but I should have a few available. I also raise bantam silkies, serama and purebred Ameraucana. I'm north of Prescott.

 

[Annalog]

I would keep the chick separated untill you know for sure.. Poor thing.. What breed?

Finally returned home late last night. I work early this morning and won't see personally how the blind chick is doing until late this afternoon.

It is in coop and pen with 4 nine-month old Silkie pullets (one is its broody mom Tapioca), the two other chicks that hatched with it, and two chicks that hatched early January. DH moves the chick in and out of the coop when Tapioca takes the other two chicks in or out. Each time he puts the chick at the food dish near the water. He says that he sees it drink and eat but is not sure how often during the day. The chick is a barnyard mix of barnyard mixes of hatchery Barred Rock (roo), New Hampshire (hens), and Easter Eggers (hens). The chick was solid black when I last saw it. It did not have a white fluffy butt like its sibling or any white spot on the head like the older chick of similar parentage did. The chick's parents are siblings from the same roo so that may be part of the cause.

I am hesitant to isolate the chick as long as it is doing well. If it lives to be a hen, then we will probably be keeping it with the Silkies. If it is a cockerel, then it will probably go to freezer camp. If it doesn't make it through the teenage months, then at least it won't be lonely while it is with its siblings and Tapioca.

 

[ChinoChix]

280-300 eggs per year, you're looking at a production type chicken e.g. Red/black sexlink, Production Red, California White, California Gray. Also an egg laying mediterranean breed such as a Leghorn, Minorca, Andalusian. I have a Delaware who has been my best layer so far, she lays large to jumbo size eggs.

German Bielefelders are great layers of HUGE eggs and there are several of us here in AZ who are raising them. Wonderful, gentle big birds.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I haven't had much time to work in the garden so the bees are working away in their stump. I put a couple of logs nearby but they seem to like their original nesting site.

I've got plans for that spot so their stump will eventually have to get moved. I wonder if I can just cut it out and move it to the side...

Yes, just move it at dusk or just after. We have about a half dozen huge chunks of aspen that we keep around for them. I think they're pretty cool bees.

 

[DesertChic]

I will have German Bielefelders hatching tomorrow, most are spoken for already but I should have a few available. I also raise bantam silkies, serama and purebred Ameraucana. I'm north of Prescott.

I hope your hatch goes well! And you'll post photos, right?
I do my final candling on my Biel eggs and put them in lockdown tonight. Right now I still have eleven viable eggs, but tonight that number could diminish. So excited!

 

[ChinoChix]

I hope your hatch goes well! And you'll post photos, right?
I do my final candling on my Biel eggs and put them in lockdown tonight. Right now I still have eleven viable eggs, but tonight that number could diminish. So excited!

I post lots of pics on my Facebook page My customers are SO excited! I love knowing if they are roos or hens off the bat. Good luck with your hatch too!

 

[City farm]

Well, my Jersey girls have been doing me right, and contributing about a dozen huevos a day. During my afternoon pickup, I found someone has gone a little beyond the call of duty, and delivered this monster. This egg is three inches long and 82 1/2 grams. Nobody has an obviously blown out butt, but that had to hurt!

Wow, that's heavy man.

 

[City farm]

Very EGGCITING

 Thank you today is one of the best days EVER  I got my first egg. Got a job that I start tomorrow. Found a breeder for white Marans and Lavender Marans 

Blessing's from above..

 

[City farm]

A few days ago I moved a batch of 5 week old chicks to the outside grow-out pen to make room in the brooder.  A couple of them weren't as fully feathered as I would have liked. Yesterday I put a Sweeter Heater out there because it was predicted to be much colder today.  They were all hanging out by the heater at sunset.  Now it's after 11 pm.  I just went out to check on them and... yeah.  They're piled in a corner as far away from the heater as possible, looking comfy as can be.  Didn't want to be moved, either.  I figure they know where the heater is and it is there for MY peace of mind.  Apparently they are big chickens now and don't need no stinkin' heater. 

your funny...

 

[City farm]

I would keep the chick separated untill you know for sure.. Poor thing.. What breed?

Finally returned home late last night. I work early this morning and won't see personally how the blind chick is doing until late this afternoon.

It is in coop and pen with 4 nine-month old Silkie pullets (one is its broody mom Tapioca), the two other chicks that hatched with it, and two chicks that hatched early January. DH moves the chick in and out of the coop when Tapioca takes the other two chicks in or out. Each time he puts the chick at the food dish near the water. He says that he sees it drink and eat but is not sure how often during the day. The chick is a barnyard mix of barnyard mixes of hatchery Barred Rock (roo), New Hampshire (hens), and Easter Eggers (hens). The chick was solid black when I last saw it. It did not have a white fluffy butt like its sibling or any white spot on the head like the older chick of similar parentage did. The chick's parents are siblings from the same roo so that may be part of the cause.

I am hesitant to isolate the chick as long as it is doing well. If it lives to be a hen, then we will probably be keeping it with the Silkies. If it is a cockerel, then it will probably go to freezer camp. If it doesn't make it through the teenage months, then at least it won't be lonely while it is with its siblings and Tapioca.

you know what, you're right I should have said that. We've had a few sick chicks from the feed store. I had one that had the abdomen outside if its belly. Sadly it did not make it. The last batch from a feed store, same thing. one of the chicks had pasty but, after I was done rinsing it I saw a red, blood like clot. Sadly that one did not make it either.I really need to inspect the chicks better! I don't know what I was thinking. Chicken MATH set in, I didn't even know it was happening until I left. I was exhausted. I would take the chicks in during the day and keep an eye on them, but in the evening I would let them go out and frolic with the rest of their siblings.