Arizona Chickens

[Lark60]

My Polish chicken laid her first egg today! (Finally). It’s pink!
The white egg is from the store (for comparison)

I also had to chase a hawk away from my flock this afternoon. It came to perch on my Tombstone rose and the chickens didn’t see it till I chased it off.

 

[BlueBaby]

@Lark60 Nice that you are getting egg's over there now. There was a hawk flying around here off and on all day today, but my flock is secured where the hawk's can't get to them. If this hawk want's a chicken dinner, then he will have to get one of my neighbors free-ranging one's.

 

[FeatherPugs]

I have an EE that lays a pink egg. They are simply pretty eggs - at least to me. I don't always know who lays which egg with 28 girls but I always know when she lays. She has been laying off and on through her molt.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have an EE that lays a pink egg. They are simply pretty eggs - at least to me. I don't always know who lays which egg with 28 girls but I always know when she lays. She has been laying off and on through her molt.

I got my first egg today out of the cream colored NN girl today!

 

[BlueBaby]

I just noticed that this site has several new contests going on right now, if any of you want to try for any of them:
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[nuthatched]

Rim Country checking in, greetings from the mountains. :]

 

[BlueBaby]

Rim Country checking in, greetings from the mountains. :]

Hello, good to see you checking in with us! Have you gotten any snow up there yet, and if so how are your chicken's dealing with it?

 

[nuthatched]

Hello, good to see you checking in with us! Have you gotten any snow up there yet, and if so how are your chicken's dealing with it?

Thank you. :]
Not yet, just the 2 days of rain the other day. which didn't bother them the slightest.
It's 28* out, so maybe by friday....

 

[FeatherPugs]

Welcome @nuthatched been a long time since I dealt with chickens and cold weather BUT the real upside is you can get so many different breeds. Me, down here in the thick of the heat, I have to be careful as I need to get them through 120 degrees sometimes and almost always 110 or so in summers. I have found NN do well for me. Right now though they want to be warm in their coops at night. Interesting isn't it.

 

[FeatherPugs]

Well, just in from cleaning the chicken yard. I had my first predator in 10 years. I have had an occasional owl but not gotten any chickens. I'm thinking this was early this morning. His poop was still very wet and looked more like a dog than a coyote. Also left two chickens in the yard with only "scratches" on them. Ate at one but left behind guts and such. I'm thinking dog. Now to figure if we have a stray dog in the area. One older, not often laying girl, one of my NN and @BlueBaby my blue australorpe Gracie Lee. I'm sad but will be mad if the neighbors just let their dogs out to run early in the am - they are not chicken proof. DANG!!