Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

Named the 3 girls at least I am thinking 3 out of the 4 turkens are girls. CC has a natural necklace, so I named her after Coco Chanel that started the costume jewelry craze. The 2 white ones are Silvia & Karen. They are out running about & have came close to me as they run through my legs, very happy about that. Hope to get them eating from my hand.

 

[Parront]

As they should be the biggest. I need to find out what sex this naked neck chick with the 5 toes on each foot is, so that I will know what sex of the Silver Grey Dorking that I will need to look for to breed it back to. I'm hoping to be able to release my 3rd broody from jail today, if she has broken yet.

I was looking at the Sandhill web site, and he says that he is sending lots of extras due to shipping schedules causing problems. That some of those are Dorkings! The shipping date is Aug 25, backup date Sept 8. By the time they are old enough to tell their sex, it should be cooler in your area.

 

[BlueBaby]

I was looking at the Sandhill web site, and he says that he is sending lots of extras due to shipping schedules causing problems. That some of those are Dorkings! The shipping date is Aug 25, backup date Sept 8. By the time they are old enough to tell their sex, it should be cooler in your area.

This Dorking mix hen that I have here is part Silver Grey Dorking, but because there was also Red Ranger in her mix, she's reddish in color. She hatched out of some shipped egg's I got from Compost King over in North Carolina.

 

[Parront]

This Dorking mix hen that I have here is part Silver Grey Dorking, but because there was also Red Ranger in her mix, she's reddish in color. She hatched out of some shipped egg's I got from Compost King over in North Carolina.

Sandhill does not have the Silver Grey, but I bet her chicks from a Red Dorking would be nice! Especially if you could get some with the Naked Neck gene for heat hardy AZ Dorkings!

 

[BlueBaby]

Sandhill does not have the Silver Grey, but I bet her chicks from a Red Dorking would be nice! Especially if you could get some with the Naked Neck gene for heat hardy AZ Dorkings!

She is reddish in color, so I will have time to think about the best way to go with that project. Would you care to work with me on that project, so that they won't all be too closely related if we make the NN AZ. Dorking's?

 

[Parront]

She is reddish in color, so I will have time to think about the best way to go with that project. Would you care to work with me on that project, so that they won't all be too closely related if we make the NN AZ. Dorking's?

It sounds like a fun project! I have a great place to raise chicks, no roosters, though.

 

[wolfwalker]

so had a monsoon storm come through. dropped an inch and a half of rain in half an hour and 8 inches of piled up hail in the road. A sudden burst of ping ball size hail that took out 2 of my 9 week old Aloha females and injured 1 to the point I'm not sure she will make it. I'm beginning to think mother nature is trying to tell me something about my move to Bisbee.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

so had a monsoon storm come through. dropped an inch and a half of rain in half an hour and 8 inches of piled up hail in the road. A sudden burst of ping ball size hail that took out 2 of my 9 week old Aloha females and injured 1 to the point I'm not sure she will make it. I'm beginning to think mother nature is trying to tell me something about my move to Bisbee.

Oh wow!! Your poor babies have had quite the ordeal!! And Bisbee is on my future potential list. Is the weather more unpredictable there in general? And monsoon didn't get the message to wait 2 more weeks. I better wrap up my outside projects. Sorry to hear about your chicks, hopefully the last one pulls through.

 

[springvalley123]

so had a monsoon storm come through. dropped an inch and a half of rain in half an hour and 8 inches of piled up hail in the road. A sudden burst of ping ball size hail that took out 2 of my 9 week old Aloha females and injured 1 to the point I'm not sure she will make it. I'm beginning to think mother nature is trying to tell me something about my move to Bisbee.

Sorry to hear about the casualties. That area of Arizona has very fierce storms. Ft Huachuca had a system to warn everyone on base how far out a storm was and they had to shut down their computers at a certain distance. Hopefully you'll be able to rebuild or reinforce and be all the stronger for it. FWIW, I had some shade cloth at my old place in black canyon, and I thought it was flimsy because it tore. Then I saw a big sign on the freeway that the sign posts had bent over!

 

[wolfwalker]

Oh wow!! Your poor babies have had quite the ordeal!! And Bisbee is on my future potential list. Is the weather more unpredictable there in general? And monsoon didn't get the message to wait 2 more weeks. I better wrap up my outside projects. Sorry to hear about your chicks, hopefully the last one pulls through.

As long as you don't move into town, then its not bad. the farm is 16 miles west of town in a canyon and maybe half an inch fell there. but being 5300 ft up in town it is more volatile. I recorded 23 inches of rain last year at the house. East of town is protected by the Mule mountains and we made the decision to put this place up for sale and move east Heck, 16 miles east of town it is around 4000 ft above sea level