Arizona Chickens

[Gadtellum]

Dose anyone live in Tucson Az and would like to try to do another chicken swap

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Dose anyone live in Tucson Az and would like to try to do another chicken swap

Hmmmmmm do tell what a chicken swap is.

I could assume what it is by the name but I like to see what other "stipulations" might be involved.

 

[Gadtellum]

Where people meet to buy and sell chickens, turkeys, ducks and sometimes livestock

 

[Gadtellum]

Where people meet to buy and sell chickens, turkeys, ducks and sometimes livestock

 

[Banaynaychicken]

So I had a fantastic epiphony last night, after coming home from the Pima County Fair and being in either the Barn or the Petting Zoo majority of the time, and Im thinking this could be my lifestyle. Its fantastic, but I would like to get your guy's opinion on it, tell me what you think -


So I have fallen in love with bantam/pygmy/mini/micro farm animals.

quite frankly they are adoreable and addicting.

And last night i though "Wel what if I had a farm with everything bantam/pygmy/mini/micro?

and then it came to me, the name of my future farm:

Shortstack Ranch

SOOOOO may ways to play it off, so many logo opportunities and ideas just kinda came ramming into my face ike

"this is gonna happen."

Basically my ranch would be a big piece of property, but majority of the animals there would be bantam/pygmy/mini/micro, such as

OEGB, Call ducks, Silkies, Polish, Modern Game, Seramas, Quail, Pygmy, Boer and Dwarf goats, Miniature Ponies/donkeys, Micro Pigs, bunnies, miniature Cows Etc.

I'm thinking the biggest enimals on the property would be our GSD and/or Husky, our Turkeys, and our Nubian dairy goats/Boer meat goats.

Maybe the logo could be something like a hay stack with animals surrounding it or on it in a different color.

But anyway this is my basic idea, we would raise and sell poultry products (meat, eggs) with three flocks (one cornish X and two Layers, one colored egg flock and one brown and white egg layer flock, each of about 40 birds) and we would sell goat products as well (Goat milk procucts, goat meat products, breeding doe and buck studding, 4H/FFA/Open show animal sales.) Shortstack Ranch hold quarterly Petting Zoos, and maybe during certain select seasons, have open farm tours where people can come and have pictures done with the animals and buy products straight from the shop and learn more about say, FFA and 4H and have a few clubs come out and demonstrate a project in our corralt(Animal Showmanship and similary things) and it would basically be an animal based apple annies.


So what do you guys think?

what could be improved on and what would you reccomend?

Keep in mind, this is a long term goal.

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Where people meet to buy and sell chickens, turkeys, ducks and sometimes livestock

hmmmmmmmmmm

sounds interesting, y'know if I had better looking chickens at the moment I might consider it, but at the moment everyne is either at the fair, molting, or im too attached XD

 

[cactusrota]

Finally got my chickens home!!
Short synopsis: We were staying with my brother in WA for awhile while the hubby tried out a trucking company up there. My brother let me pick a few birds from his mixed barnyard flock to take home with me. Two NN's (one roo and his sister from the same hatch), two black EE's that lay brown eggs, and one mystery breed black roo. The semi broke down and had to be towed to a cousins house in Utah. Ended up bring my chickens there and throwing them in with their flock for a few months.
Monday, we finally got to load up my birds (plus one extra hen they let me snag out of their flock) and a whole bunch of other stuff (the hubby went craigslist happy in WA), and got it all home!

Birds took the whole trip in stride, riding in a cage on a flatbed car trailer surrounded by all the other stuff. A 700 mile trip that ended up taking about 17 hours because of flat tires, rest breaks and a two hour nap. We left about 2pm Monday and got home just after 7am Tuesday. At one point we were pulled off just outside Globe on hwy 60, at around day break early Tuesday morning, and my NN roo is crowing his heart out at the passing cars!! Not a care!

on the very right of the pic you can see the corner of the cage they travelled in.. We made sure to put some stuff in front of it to block the high winds.



Checking out their new digs on Tuesday. I know my coop looks hillbilly, it's an old converted pigeon loft amended with random yard things. The hubby has this plan to build a compressed earth brick machine and so I'm putting together plans for a nice insulated brick chicken coop.


Now they're getting acquainted with the yard a bit. They've been very chill about the whole ordeal. I totally expected to not see any eggs for a few days after getting them home, but I've been getting 2 eggs out of 4 hens every day. As I'm typing this I'm hearing the song of "I just laid and egg!!!" which I'm assuming is from one of my EE's since I saw her in a nest just a little while ago.

 

[Gadtellum]

Dose anyone know Pure Nubians goat breeders in Tucson az

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Dose anyone know Pure Nubians goat breeders in Tucson az

Not in Tucson, but my Ant Cara, up in Showlow/Linden area breeds nubians and sells goat products, It's a bit of a drvie but she has great prices, and an amazing heart/personality.

We bought two bucks from her a couple of years ago, they make not only great pets/wierd-animals-to-walk-around-a-suburban-neighoorhood, but their meat once they were butchere was delicious.

yes we ate our pets, yes we were traumatized, yes we got over it because we were kids and we got chickens and everything was better.

The location is Tumbleweed Ranch in Linden, AZ.

its about 4 hours from Tucson.

you may be able to contact her through this, however if not I can have you PM me and i'll give you her number for a goat quarry. She has breeding females and 3 generations of offspring ( like 7 of them?), 3 unrelated groups (as of the last time I visited in January)



www.tumbleweedranch.org/philosophy

 

[Banaynaychicken]

Figured I could post these now that I have them, me with my highest scoring birds, and Nathaniel with our polish rooster Bowie.



Little kept trying to EAT the gold on the ribbon. She was quite infatuated with her winnings
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Nathaniel with is baby boy, Bowie. He seriously loves this bird. Bowie got a Red.


Quinn was one of the best Barred Rocks at the show, next to 3 others.

also she is fat and my arm was dead at that point.