Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Went to the store today to get the rest of the things I needed to be ready for the arrival of my chicks, which is only two weeks away! Bought a big bag of food and dumped it into a storage container at home to find that it was full of bugs. Yuck. So I get to go back and try again tomorrow.

Bug's in the chick starter feed? No, you don't need the free meat for the chicks that are that small. They will eat enough bug's when they get bigger.

 

[Geranium]

Bug's in the chick starter feed? No, you don't need the free meat for the chicks that are that small. They will eat enough bug's when they get bigger.

Lol that's what I said! They can find their own bugs when they're bigger.

 

[SonoranChick]

Don't you live sort of close to @DesertChic ? Maybe she could use your broody to hatch out some of her NN's?

Is your broody a Blue, Double-laced Blue, or Double-laced? The eggs from that breed that I seen online look to be darker brown than the one's that I have here from my flock.

She is much further south from me but I wouldn't mind taking a drive! I think I'm actually closer to you guys up in Phoenix than I am to her.
Biddy is a double-laced barnevelder. Her eggs are a little darker, but oddly my red star lays the darkest eggs. They are a nice deep caramel color. I would describe the barnevelder' eggs as a shade or two lighter than that. I read online somewhere that the American bred barnevelders have not yet achieved that deep dark chocolate colored egg that the original line is known for. Apparently the hatcheries here are still "working on it". She is a decent little layer though, when she's not broody!

 

[SonoranChick]

Went to the store today to get the rest of the things I needed to be ready for the arrival of my chicks, which is only two weeks away! Bought a big bag of food and dumped it into a storage container at home to find that it was full of bugs. Yuck. So I get to go back and try again tomorrow.

Oh no! This happened to me twice now from our local feed store, so I have been getting my feed from Ace hardware. One location sells the same brand of dog food and chicken feed as the feed store, so I've been taking my business there lately. I'll try the feed store again some day but it's so frustrating to open a 50 lb bag and find bugs inside.

 

[BlueBaby]

She is much further south from me but I wouldn't mind taking a drive! I think I'm actually closer to you guys up in Phoenix than I am to her.
Biddy is a double-laced barnevelder. Her eggs are a little darker, but oddly my red star lays the darkest eggs. They are a nice deep caramel color. I would describe the barnevelder' eggs as a shade or two lighter than that. I read online somewhere that the American bred barnevelders have not yet achieved that deep dark chocolate colored egg that the original line is known for. Apparently the hatcheries here are still "working on it". She is a decent little layer though, when she's not broody!

So, you are closer to me? Maybe we could trade hens and that way you would still have a hen that will lay eggs for you. I would be willing to trade my rare colored Splash Australorp hen. She hasn't shown any sign of thinking about being broody, and no one has wanted her for breeding. She's been having her first adult molting and her new feather's are coming in.

 

[Michelle Guynn]

I'm not sure what size she will lay. The Crested Cream Legbars side from her daddy don't lay that big of an egg. They are the smallest eggs I get out there. But, with her momma being my Splash Australorp laying a decent sized egg, I would guess that it would be somewhere in between. They will be mint green & bigger eggs than your Silkies lay, though.

Yes I would starve on silkie eggs lol. But shhhhhdont tell them lol

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes I would starve on silkie eggs lol. But shhhhhdont tell them lol

No wonder you are trying to hatch all of them! You can eat eggs in October, when Hazel start's laying.

 

[meetthebubus]

@Michelle Guynn you can have some of my eggs! I get a dozen or more a day so I have a hundred from just this week


@SonoranChick I bet your hen would miss her family of hens but I know that clucking Rambita does that every time she comes out for a break its like shes counting to herself





My mud puddle got murky I drained it and took out the 2 inches of dirt that needs to dry out so their puddle will be clean again as I drained it last night I found 2 green eggs! I'm sure they were from that day but I still threw them away bc the water was so murkyfrom the mud I couldn't see them

 

[BlueBaby]

@Michelle Guynn you can have some of my eggs! I get a dozen or more a day so I have a hundred from just this week


@SonoranChick I bet your hen would miss her family of hens but I know that clucking Rambita does that every time she comes out for a break its like shes counting to herself





My mud puddle got murky I drained it and took out the 2 inches of dirt that needs to dry out so their puddle will be clean again as I drained it last night I found 2 green eggs! I'm sure they were from that day but I still threw them away bc the water was so murkyfrom the mud I couldn't see them

I had a Black Australorp younger hen before that layed one of her eggs in the water pan. I guess some of them do it wherever they are at if it feels good?

 

[cavemanrich]

@Michelle Guynn
My mud puddle got murky I drained it and took out the 2 inches of dirt that needs to dry out so their puddle will be clean again as I drained it last night I found 2 green eggs! I'm sure they were from that day but I still threw them away bc the water was so murkyfrom the mud I couldn't see them

When I find questionable eggs, I never throw them away,,,,,, I boil them up and feed them back to the chickens.
I know you are overrun with eggs though.