Arizona Chickens

[bunsnpupsnchick]

No worry. Oops happen, just wanted to be sure it got to the right person.

 

[BlueBaby]

Unfortunately, Glendale. http://www.prattspets.com/ Looks like this weekend is customer appreciation....some sales. $8/50lb scratch, buy1 get1 pullet free, bogo for mealworms & other items too. Flyer's online under the sales tab. Long drive for some of us.

I can say...go a block or so further & Cerretta's chocolate is there....really good, local, no preservative. It's the company that makes the olive oil sea salt dark chocolate bar for the queen creek olive mill. Family run biz for decades. Let's just say that when my family visits from Florida we go there & I bring some with me when I visit. They do caramels too. Sorry....big proponent for local when possible.

Which also means the olive mill...local grown & pressed olives. Very good oil in tons of flavors. They also have recipes used in their bakery/restaurant hanging around the store. It's just a bit down/up the road from Schnepf farm in Queen Creek. I think this weekend is an event...olive harvest festival or named something like that. If you eat pork, The Pork Shop is a few miles down the road. Old fashion pork butcher, even smokes chops for just shy of a day, sausage & deli meat in several varieties. OK enough local ramble.

Wow! It sort of hurts that I will miss out on this for this weekend. I'll be at Wild Horse Motorsport Park watching the power boat racing. Our RV space and tickets have already been paid for.

 

[Las2062]

Thank you for the resources. My daughter is in FFA, unfortunately no one around here can have Roos but I posted a sign at her club anyway. I'll use pratts if needed but I would prefer to know for sure that he is going to a good home. I'm keeping the girls till spring but the roo we just can't keep.

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Hi All! I live in the valley and have 3, 9 week old, laced polish chickens. One is a roo and usually that's ok as we sell them at the county fair in the spring. My problem is that he has started to crow! I have never had a roo start so early. I can't keep him. He is beautiful(silver laced) and he is sweet. I would be willing to deliver him to a good home

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oh my god he is beautiful ....

gosh if I had a bigger pen I would tottaly take his sweetness <3

*dashes to build a bigger coop*

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

Wow! It sort of hurts that I will miss out on this for this weekend. I'll be at Wild Horse Motorsport Park watching the power boat racing. Our RV space and tickets have already been paid for.

I don't know how long the coupons are good for at Pratt's. As for the Olive Mill...they do events thru out the year including food trucks, garlic festival, etc. Their website is pretty good at having the calendar. Schnepf's farm I think they list the events on their site. I think they do something with the upcoming holidays. They also have upick veg garden & some orchards. The Pork Shop is open Tues-Sunday. I think Cerretta's is open every day.....I'm seriously addicted to their dark chocolate candies & caramels....the sea salt chocolate caramel I think is the latest one. lol

Plus, I know there are a ton more local farms, etc. thru out the valley. Some do CSAs, some go there. There's even a small dairy that does a CSA & makes the ice cream for the Maggie Moo ice cream places I think is the name. Just bits of nice local stuff to find either for yourself or if people visit & enjoy things like that.

I'm east valley so for the most part I catch what's around here.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

oh my god he is beautiful ....

gosh if I had a bigger pen I would tottaly take his sweetness <3

*dashes to build a bigger coop*

lol....why do I see you having every variety of polish???? OH, I found out what Sherlock is....a white crested red or maybe it's red laced. I forget that part. Explains his white crest & the bit of red on him, totally not well marked, but he's huge! Finally...annoying mystery solved. I'm still keeping the name Sherlock, it's kind of stuck.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

Thank you for the resources. My daughter is in FFA, unfortunately no one around here can have Roos but I posted a sign at her club anyway. I'll use pratts if needed but I would prefer to know for sure that he is going to a good home. I'm keeping the girls till spring but the roo we just can't keep.

So are you hatching & selling chicks & pullets? I'd assume if you can't have the roos that you really can't breed, unless you're partnered with someone who can. Just curious.

I'm starting to get into breeding, so always curious as to what others are doing...how they handle extra chicks, etc. I've decided on a couple of breeds....possibly varieties in the breeds. I'm still playing around a bit to see what I really like too. Thus far I'm hooked on my crevecoeur, bantam sultan, polish, & bantam cochins. Kind of bantam brahmas. So, right now my plan is to build on what I have while I fine tune.

I do have some lf for regular sized eggs. Now desertchic has me thinking of a couple of breeds to try as they're supposed to eat our fire ants!!!! Score if that's the case.

 

[Las2062]

We get day old chicks from a family member in Iowa. My daughter raises them and then sells them at the county fair. Usually doesn't matter if we get a roo because they are gone before the crowing gets too loud but he is an early bloomer and is crowing pretty loud at 9 weeks old. She has raised Wyandottes - best breed we have ever had, Cochins, buff o, EE, red sex linked, true Amaracunas- splash, all for eggs and now we are trying quality show breeds. Polish are the most entertaining breed we have ever had.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

We get day old chicks from a family member in Iowa. My daughter raises them and then sells them at the county fair. Usually doesn't matter if we get a roo because they are gone before the crowing gets too loud but he is an early bloomer and is crowing pretty loud at 9 weeks old. She has raised Wyandottes - best breed we have ever had, Cochins, buff o, EE, red sex linked, true Amaracunas- splash, all for eggs and now we are trying quality show breeds. Polish are the most entertaining breed we have ever had.

That's great. I'm liking the polish I've gotten thus far. Mine are from hatcheries, but some of the birds look really good. Do you get bantam cochin? Do you get to choose what breed? I haven't tried hatching yet. No incubator. I'm hoping next year I'll have someone be broody for my girls that I can have her hatch when I'm ready.

The crevecoeurs are listed as rare/needing help for a heritage breed so I want to work with them. Since I've a pair, figure it's a good place to start.

I know what you mean for loud. I've a poorly marked partridge cockerel bantam cochin who's in the house right now due to a beak injury, It's healing up, but til it's further along I prefer him out of the general group. Plus, it's company for my timid polish who just hides when in the group & won't come out to eat or drink that's inside for now. The cochin I swear has lungs that belong to a huge bird & he's so small!! I'm seriously considering trying a diy crow collar. That, or a squirt gun. I'm not with it enough to clicker train so early in the am. Supposedly, that works. LIke most training....can take a while & have to load the clicker first!

 

[nicollee]

I thought I was going to go get some chicks today,,, but family matters are getting in the way....

Add to that my husband now wants to try hatching, not just getting chicks...

Where do I find hatching eggs for him?
maybe a 1/2 dozen, max a dozen

I have my heart set on Marans, or maybe I'd try some Naked Necks,
just to freak him out (If he doesn't know what they are)

I'm in
Tempe, AZ and would really like to find them LOCALLY.
thanks