Arizona Chickens

[Linda1218]

Any one have day old silkies in the mesa area?

 

[BlueBaby]

Any one have day old silkies in the mesa area?

I hope that you find some. I'm not doing the silkies, so I can't help you with those.

 

[cavemanrich]

BlueBaby
How did your Silkies tolerate the heat, ?

 

[BlueBaby]

BlueBaby
How did your Silkies tolerate the heat, ?

I really can't say, as I got rid of them before the heat hit. I found that silkies are prone to wry neck, and they don't make a good outdoor bird here with those feathered feet. They have to be cleaned and bathed too much because they get mud, dirt, and poop stuck in those feathers on the feet. I think that silkies would do better living indoor's or in a coop that is built up off the ground maybe. I do know that they are too delicate of a breed for me, and I'm not into all of the pampering that they seem to require. They don't belong in with my bigger breed flock anyway's.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

*waving hello*

I joined yesterday after someone gave me a dozen chicken eggs from his flock, and I candled them and saw that four were fertile. They are in an incubator now thanks to help from this board, and only time will tell whether or not they hatch.

I live on some acreage in east central Arizona right by the Navajo/Apache county line. I've been wanting to get some chickens and other livestock, and have a building that would make a great coop and already has places for the nests inside. All it needs is a run attached. I have feeders and waterers, so if these four eggs in the incubator don't hatch, spring would be a great time to get some chicks. In the meantime, I'm learning all that I can about them.

 

[BlueBaby]

*waving hello*

I joined yesterday after someone gave me a dozen chicken eggs from his flock, and I candled them and saw that four were fertile. They are in an incubator now thanks to help from this board, and only time will tell whether or not they hatch.

I live on some acreage in east central Arizona right by the Navajo/Apache county line. I've been wanting to get some chickens and other livestock, and have a building that would make a great coop and already has places for the nests inside. All it needs is a run attached. I have feeders and waterers, so if these four eggs in the incubator don't hatch, spring would be a great time to get some chicks. In the meantime, I'm learning all that I can about them.

Hello, nice to see you here! Do you know what breed or breed's that your hatching egg's came from? You also might be able to get some started pullet's later on from a local breeder to add to your flock that would help keep you from having to deal with raising newly hatched chick's in the spring.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

He said the flock was mixed. Two eggs are green and two are brown. I was at a swap meet yesterday and a man asked if I'd like some chicken eggs. I thought he was selling them, but he just gave them to me. Since I've never seen him before, there's no asking him what type of mix he has.

 

[BlueBaby]

He said the flock was mixed. Two eggs are green and two are brown. I was at a swap meet yesterday and a man asked if I'd like some chicken eggs. I thought he was selling them, but he just gave them to me. Since I've never seen him before, there's no asking him what type of mix he has.

That's what I had out there this morning when I went out to the coop, 2 green and 2 really light brown egg's. I have a few breed's of hen's and a Naked Neck rooster that I have been breeding. In the spring, when they are old enough to start breeding and give me egg's, I also have a breeding set of the Silver Grey Dorking's.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

You are keeping me busy looking up these chicken breeds, LOL. There's nothing better than an omelet in the morning, and hopefully by next summer there'll be eggs to collect here, too.

Silkies are cute. Are they good egg layers? My grandmother kept a flock of chickens pretty much all of her life until she got into her 90's. From looking at pictures of chicken breeds, I think they were Leghorns. They were big white chickens and somehow she could always tell those identical hens apart.

The eggs are doing fine. The incubator had horrible reviews for temperature fluctuations on line, but it's holding right at 100 degrees quite nicely *fingers crossed.*

 

[BlueBaby]

You are keeping me busy looking up these chicken breeds, LOL. There's nothing better than an omelet in the morning, and hopefully by next summer there'll be eggs to collect here, too.

Silkies are cute. Are they good egg layers? My grandmother kept a flock of chickens pretty much all of her life until she got into her 90's. From looking at pictures of chicken breeds, I think they were Leghorns. They were big white chickens and somehow she could always tell those identical hens apart.

The eggs are doing fine. The incubator had horrible reviews for temperature fluctuations on line, but it's holding right at 100 degrees quite nicely *fingers crossed.*

Silkies are supposed to average 100 small sized egg's a year. They do go broody alot. The White Leghorn's are supposed to lay 220 white large sized egg's or more in a year.