Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Anyone use a sun oven? As long as it's not too windy I use it for tons of stuff all year here. Great in lieu of a crockpot too.

Although I have heard of those sun oven's, I have never seen one actually put to work before. I do love my crockpot!

 

[SonoranChick]

Thanks @BlueBaby, sounds easy enough! I will be sure to try that.
I've yet to use a sun oven but I am a huge fan of our Dutch oven. Out door fire cooking...our favorite is crash hot taters (slow cook potatoes and rosemary with salt/oil)
And of course the crock pot is always amazing about this time of year!

 

[BlueBaby]

Thanks @BlueBaby, sounds easy enough! I will be sure to try that.
I've yet to use a sun oven but I am a huge fan of our Dutch oven. Out door fire cooking...our favorite is crash hot taters (slow cook potatoes and rosemary with salt/oil)
And of course the crock pot is always amazing about this time of year!

Smothered pork chops or steak in the crockpot is great, then use the gravy over your mashed potatoes or rice.

 

[meetthebubus]

I use my big toaster oven, it's an Oster, fits big pizza pans and 9x13 dishes, I use it for everything
I never use my oven part of my range it's so hot and the energy it uses!

I also don't have a microwave on purpose so I LOVE that Lil oven

As far as I'm mentioning energy used I can't wait to shut off my deep freezer for their ice bottles, the mister and it looks like we are done with the a/c for this year for the chickens☺

Anyone know if wheaton amercaunas are bad with heat? I was thinking about them .some farm in queen creek area is selling them, though I hesitate to stray from buff
orps

 

[meetthebubus]

Today I got feather fixer from tsc for first time the chickens wouldn't eat it and it smells of peas and broccoli lol

I'm going to try it wet tomorrow I have 4 regrowing feathers and 5 more will start soon I'm sure

I saw that tsc changed their meal worm brand and it's cheaper got 30 Oz for 20 dollars

 

[azurbanclucker]

There seem to be a lot of wheatens around, and I haven't heard anyone say they were particularly hard to keep in the heat.

 

[FeatherPugs]

Today I got feather fixer from tsc for first time the chickens wouldn't eat it and it smells of peas and broccoli lol

I'm going to try it wet tomorrow I have 4 regrowing feathers and 5 more will start soon I'm sure

I saw that tsc changed their meal worm brand and it's cheaper got 30 Oz for 20 dollars

I generally use flock raiser instead of feather fixer. I've not compared the protein on them but that's what you are looking for - higher protein to help them with molting. I too saw they changed brands of meal worms. I order mine on the internet - 11 lbs at a time! Way, way cheaper. I paid less than $60 for 11 lbs. Its quite a savings to me.

 

[DesertChic]

I feed my heavy molt birds raw meat (and their regular soaked/fermented feed) to help them get through it. If you're on a tight budget, go to the "soon to expire" section of the meat department in the grocery store. A little raw meat goes a long way with these birds and with the exception of one girl of mine that literally stayed bald for an entire year (and laid jumbo-sized eggs six days per week), my birds typically sprout feathers within three days of eating the meat.

 

[Bobby Basham]

We lucked out on getting this oven. Ours was getting pretty old, but was still working, but a friend of ours decided to buy a new one. They were going to trash their old one, but they didn't like the cost of the haul away. That double oven was still working good too, so Hubby said that we would take it off their hands for them! I have cooked many thing's on the stove's top, and have done up pizza's in the upper oven already.

I bought this practically new house in 2008, and had to buy all my stainless steel appliances. They are all in great shape and wondering what I should do with them before I replace them. I don't do Ebay or Craigs List, and thought about donating them to Habitat for Humanity, or maybe just Good Will. These were not cheap when I purchased them and I think they're still worth some money.

I need to do some more reading about convection ovens and how they work. All the stoves I've checked out have one convection and one regular ovens.

 

[igorsMistress]

Today I got feather fixer from tsc for first time the chickens wouldn't eat it and it smells of peas and broccoli lol

I'm going to try it wet tomorrow I have 4 regrowing feathers and 5 more will start soon I'm sure

I saw that tsc changed their meal worm brand and it's cheaper got 30 Oz for 20 dollars

I got a bag of mealworms online that filled a five gallon bucket for around that much. Granted it'll take a while to use them all up, but I didn't realize how many dehydrated bugs it takes to make a pound. I must have bought 10 lbs of the things.