Arizona Chickens

[SonoranChick]

We have been getting rain all day! It has been lovely. The desert needed this slow, steady rain. The chickens are all soggy but they always have the option to go in the coop...they must enjoy the rain as much as I do!

 

[BlueBaby]

It's now been pouring at my house for over four hours straight. My entire chicken acreage is a lake and many of my very soggy birds are giving me the stink eye. Most of them are hanging out on the back patio right outside my bedroom though because it's got a nice been canopy over it. As soon as I open the slider to go outside a handful of birds try to come indoors. Maybe they just want to hang out on the couch with me and watch movies.

Well, you better fix up some popcorn then if you are all going to be sitting on the couch watching movies!

 

[igorsMistress]

Ugh, it is muggy out there!

I went to Wickenburg today. It rained on the way there and the way back. Not hard, but steady. Looks like it did the same at home.

The quail are so small, but they sound like a herd of elephants running around in the brooder.

One is a Tuxedo with white tips on its wings and racing stripes on its head. I'm hoping it's a good sized bird as I'd like to keep it.

I can't believe Fall is finally here. I'm ready for long, dark nights and short days when I can cuddle with the dogs on the bed and finish a book I started last winter.

The holidays will be upon us soon. We're planning Thanksgiving already. Anyone else?

 

[BlueBaby]

Ugh, it is muggy out there!

I went to Wickenburg today. It rained on the way there and the way back. Not hard, but steady. Looks like it did the same at home.

The quail are so small, but they sound like a herd of elephants running around in the brooder.

One is a Tuxedo with white tips on its wings and racing stripes on its head. I'm hoping it's a good sized bird as I'd like to keep it.

I can't believe Fall is finally here. I'm ready for long, dark nights and short days when I can cuddle with the dogs on the bed and finish a book I started last winter.

The holidays will be upon us soon. We're planning Thanksgiving already. Anyone else?

I hope that the temps stay below 100* now. I'd like to be able to take those mister's down out there and be able to sit on my bucket out there with them longer again.

 

[Geranium]

I get mine at Triple L feed store in Marana, just off I-10 at the marana exit. They have two locations in the area but I go to the one closer to the freeway.

I'll try there! Thanks a

 

[Geranium]

3 of the 9 chicks can get out of the brooder if the lid is off! Big girls. Planning to do a lot of work on the coop this weekend so it will be ready for the ladies when they outgrow their brooder. I'll take some before and after shots! They're going to be so excited once they get outside with a full sized dust bath, and don't have to make do with their terra cotta plant saucer of dirt that they currently have!

 

[SonoranChick]

@meetthebubus I agree, I hope this heat is all done for the season. I want to be able to do a lot of work in the coop and spend some quality time with the hens, and lately it's just been too nasty outside to stay out there for very long.

@igorsMistress i have a rather dumb question...but what do you do with quail? I would assume the eggs are too small to eat (although we served quail egg shooters when I worked in a Japanese restaurant long ago!) My neighbor hunts them during quail season, and makes quail pot pie. I'm assuming you raise them for food but I'm just wondering

 

[igorsMistress]

@meetthebubus I agree, I hope this heat is all done for the season. I want to be able to do a lot of work in the coop and spend some quality time with the hens, and lately it's just been too nasty outside to stay out there for very long.

@igorsMistress i have a rather dumb question...but what do you do with quail? I would assume the eggs are too small to eat (although we served quail egg shooters when I worked in a Japanese restaurant long ago!) My neighbor hunts them during quail season, and makes quail pot pie. I'm assuming you raise them for food but I'm just wondering

No question is dumb how do you know if you don't ask

It takes about 4 quail eggs to equal 1 chicken egg. You can use them the same way you do chicken eggs but they have a different flavor. I've been looking at recipes lately. I want to pickle some and try scotch eggs among others. We're also raising them for meat, but I think they'll end up on the bbq first. 'Tis the season now that it's cooling off.

I don't like raw eggs so I never tried the shooters. Texture maybe, they're too slimey I think. Did you try them?

 

[Michelle Guynn]

Cuteness overload

 

[BlueBaby]

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Did any more of them hatch yet?