Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

I did a candle of the eggs and I think that I am starting to see some of those spider-web looking things in a few of them. I'll wait a couple more days and try again to be sure.

 

[missmimz]

I have two Isbar roosters I need to rehome. They're about 16 weeks. Anyone in the Phoenix area interested or know someone who might be? I bought them from a breeder/hatchery in Gilbert, but both my Isbars turned out to be roosters...

 

[igorsMistress]

Speaking about hatching in AZ...if chicks are hatched now in an incubator, could they potentially brood outside? It's awefully warm here even over night.

 

[BlueBaby]

Speaking about hatching in AZ...if chicks are hatched now in an incubator, could they potentially brood outside? It's awefully warm here even over night.

I don't know about that, as I have my brooder indoors sitting right underneath my incubator. I use a xl plastic dog crate for my brooder. I never move my chicks outside until after they are fully feathered. Then they get transferred outside into an xl wire dog crate that I have shaded out in my run, to start the integration process to the rest of the flock.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I do more or less the same thing @BlueBaby does. The only difference is that I have a small grow out coop outside for them once they leave the house until they're about 6-8 weeks instead of a wire dog crate. Works the same way, and after 6-8 weeks they get paroled to the free range lifestyle.

 

[igorsMistress]

I do more or less the same thing @BlueBaby does. The only difference is that I have a small grow out coop outside for them once they leave the house until they're about 6-8 weeks instead of a wire dog crate. Works the same way, and after 6-8 weeks they get paroled to the free range lifestyle.

How old are they when you take them to the grow out coop?

 

[azurbanclucker]

How old are they when you take them to the grow out coop?

This time of year, 3-4 weeks. it's warm enough that they can handle it. When it's cooler out, 6 weeks inside minimum so they can fully feather, and then out to the grow coop with a heat lamp if needed.

 

[igorsMistress]

@azurbanclucker thanks very much, you've helped me a lot!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Off topic, (and mods if this is not appropriate please feel free to delete and let me know) but if you guys or anyone you know might be interested in a baby sulcata tortoise, I have a hatch that will be ready to go at the end of July. Send me a PM if you'd like to get on the list, they will be $60 each. I will discount them if someone would like more than one, but keep in mind they get huge (males can hit 200 pounds)

 

[BlueBaby]

By the way, do any of you know of anyone who would like a 1 year old Splash Australorp rooster (the one shown in my avatar) or his Blue Australorp son who was born in October? My next door neighbor had bought both of them from me. Now, they have decided that they don't want any more surprise chicks from the broodies hidden around the yard, so they want to give away the 2 roosters for free. The Splash one is from one of the hatching eggs that I had bought and had shipped from Kurt in West Virginia, who is a member here that goes by RattlesnakeRidgeWV.