Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

My hens are laying fertile eggs and I am selling a dozen for $7 or $11 if you want a single color .
My rooster is a blue favaucana (blue egg gene ) he is huge and calm
My hens are
Wheaton ameraucanas
Buff Orpington
New hampshire red
Easter eggers -2 of them are blue
Black favaucana
3 mixed hens
Black astolorp
Buff laced polish
And a trio of splash marans I might put an egg or two in every dozen .I collect blue,green,white,tan,dark brown,brown the dozen will be a nice assortment .I have hatched out many of these eggs and the chick are gorgeous.let me know if tou interested thank for reading .

Sounds like you have a great flock! We love to see photos.. Our basket has quail egg's in the middle from @Sill & the small ones next to her egg's are wild dove egg's.. A friend rescues wild bird's for re- release.. Just so happens she shared a few with us.. I cooked them up for our dog's.. They were kinda weird..

I must say our duck egg's are so much better... We love the water feature and use it for the garden..

 

[Sill]

During the warmer months the feed I give them is most definitely wet, but rarely fermented because it will spoil too quickly. I know that the standard fermentation instructions advise letting the feed ferment for three days, but that just isn't very feasible here in the desert. Instead of getting fermented feed I get moldy feed, and I won't give that to the chickens...not that they'd eat it anyway. My compromise has been to add probiotics to their wet feed, whether via a small amount of yogurt/kefir or in powdered form, and rotate other additives like chili pepper flakes, apple cider vinegar, and even cinnamon, all of which have their own health benefits. So I guess I vote "wet" over fermented.

Yes, what she said! I only let mine go over night. I do add some of the previous day's feed to jump start it, but I wouldn't consider calling it as fermented as people in colder climates make.

 

[BackyardMarana]

Sorry I cant post pics it keeps saying (embedding) something like that .here is a link to my add on craigslist there are some pics there (not really good ones ,the best I could do)hope you guys like them .
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/grd/5503632067.html

 

[Red Banks]

During the warmer months the feed I give them is most definitely wet, but rarely fermented because it will spoil too quickly. I know that the standard fermentation instructions advise letting the feed ferment for three days, but that just isn't very feasible here in the desert. Instead of getting fermented feed I get moldy feed, and I won't give that to the chickens...not that they'd eat it anyway. My compromise has been to add probiotics to their wet feed, whether via a small amount of yogurt/kefir or in powdered form, and rotate other additives like chili pepper flakes, apple cider vinegar, and even cinnamon, all of which have their own health benefits. So I guess I vote "wet" over fermented.

I am a believer in wet feed, I don't ferment it but I just started a new practice with my new BCM chicks and they love it. I feed chick starter and warm water in a cake pan. I have been doing it since day one, they are six weeks old now. The eat it all immediately. They will follow that cake pan anywhere. What is funny is they have the same feed dry in a feeder! Sometimes they jump up into the pan before I can get it to the ground. I started doing this in the beginning because I thought it might prevent pasty butt. Making sure they got some water. These chicks are vigorous, heavy in weight when you pick them up. No waste with the wet. They only trouble is they are "baby birds", they are always clamoring to eat! I will continue this practice even though it is a little extra work.

DesertChic you forgot the garlic with the rosemary, wine and lemon! Good loaf of french bread and a salad! Heaven!

 

[DesertChic]

I am a believer in wet feed, I don't ferment it but I just started a new practice with my new BCM chicks and they love it. I feed chick starter and warm water in a cake pan. I have been doing it since day one, they are six weeks old now. The eat it all immediately. They will follow that cake pan anywhere. What is funny is they have the same feed dry in a feeder! Sometimes they jump up into the pan before I can get it to the ground. I started doing this in the beginning because I thought it might prevent pasty butt. Making sure they got some water. These chicks are vigorous, heavy in weight when you pick them up. No waste with the wet. They only trouble is they are "baby birds", they are always clamoring to eat! I will continue this practice even though it is a little extra work.

DesertChic you forgot the garlic with the rosemary, wine and lemon! Good loaf of french bread and a salad! Heaven!

LOL! I have to avoid the bread because I'm not high-carb compatible, but the salad is always part of the meal.

 

[cyborg]

Does anyone sell sexlinks that don't come from the big commercial hatcheries? From all the reading I've done, they're real egg laying machines but tend to burn out around two years of age. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

Check with @desertmarcy , she was selling black sexlinks a few months ago. Black sexlinks are a cross between a RIR or NH rooster, over a barred rock hen.

 

[BlueBaby]

I will have to have hubby dig out his camera and have some pics taken soon.

 

[AnotherKim]

Does anyone know what the laws are for selling eggs in Pima County/City Of Tucson?

 

[Bobby Basham]

Check with @desertmarcy , she was selling black sexlinks a few months ago. Black sexlinks are a cross between a RIR or NH rooster, over a barred rock hen.

Thanks so much. I just want some eggs and not interested in the cycle of "processing" these girls and replenishing the flockafter I've become attached to them. I only plan on having about 7 hens...that God's chosen number. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

 

[BlueBaby]

Does anyone know what the laws are for selling eggs in Pima County/City Of Tucson?

You could probably find it by going online and look up the City Code Laws for your city.