Arizona Chickens

[springvalley123]

Here is a cute chick pic, the 2 Exchequer Leghorns are the white chicks.

they're very cute. are they newly hatched from your incubator?

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I'm hoping for a calmer wildfire season this year. I have enough crates but don't want to put an otherwise sweet but screeching cat in the car with hubby with all his problems.

I used to keep a "bugout list" on the fridge during wildfire season. Really glad it was there when I needed it, because when that fire was bearing down on us, my brain went into autopilot and I wasn't thinking clearly. My Boston Terrier was tearing around the yard at full speed in a panic. Finally cornered the little booger and stuffed him into the 4Runner. Everyone was breathing through their mouths because the smoke was so thick.

The authorities told us to leave the water on in case they needed it to fight for our houses, and to turn the gas off. As I was leaving I was doing well over the speed limit, but the policeman on the highway access road was waving his arm at me to go faster, faster. That's the only time a cop has ever told me to speed, LOL. The fire stopped about half a mile from my house as the crow flies, about 3 miles by roads.

I hope you never have to evacuate from one. We got to come home for Memorial Day, and signs thanking the firemen sprung up all over. At a yard sale in June, one of the firemen was talking to someone and said if the fire had happened a month later, it would have been direr, and they would have lost my area. That's when living in the pines lost its charm for me. Stuff Superman and Batman, firemen and slurry bomber pilots are the true heroes.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Here is a cute chick pic, the 2 Exchequer Leghorns are the white chicks.

OK, there goes my breeding idea out the window. Some of my Leghorns have some white on them, and my great idea was to breed for more white mixed in with the black barring. But that's already happened with the Exchequers. They are super cute, though.

 

[BlueBaby]

I used to keep a "bugout list" on the fridge during wildfire season. Really glad it was there when I needed it, because when that fire was bearing down on us, my brain went into autopilot and I wasn't thinking clearly. My Boston Terrier was tearing around the yard at full speed in a panic. Finally cornered the little booger and stuffed him into the 4Runner. Everyone was breathing through their mouths because the smoke was so thick.

The authorities told us to leave the water on in case they needed it to fight for our houses, and to turn the gas off. As I was leaving I was doing well over the speed limit, but the policeman on the highway access road was waving his arm at me to go faster, faster. That's the only time a cop has ever told me to speed, LOL. The fire stopped about half a mile from my house as the crow flies, about 3 miles by roads.

I hope you never have to evacuate from one. We got to come home for Memorial Day, and signs thanking the firemen sprung up all over. At a yard sale in June, one of the firemen was talking to someone and said if the fire had happened a month later, it would have been direr, and they would have lost my area. That's when living in the pines lost its charm for me. Stuff Superman and Batman, firemen and slurry bomber pilots are the true heroes.

I have heard that some people who live in area's like that will prep for possible times like that by packing some of those thing's that they would need if having to evacuate in those plastic container tub's that have the lid's on them and have them somewhere close to where they would be exiting the house from or in a shed.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I have heard that some people who live in area's like that will prep for possible times like that by packing some of those thing's that they would need if having to evacuate in those plastic container tub's that have the lid's on them and have them somewhere close to where they would be exiting the house from or in a shed.

That's a good idea. You really need to think about what you most want to save over a period of time when your brain is not in fight or flight mode.

 

[springvalley123]

That's a good idea. You really need to think about what you most want to save over a period of time when your brain is not in fight or flight mode.

yea, we have "ready set go" and an alert system up here. we've been ready and set, but not "go" since I've been back up here fortunately.

 

[Parront]

OK, there goes my breeding idea out the window. Some of my Leghorns have some white on them, and my great idea was to breed for more white mixed in with the black barring. But that's already happened with the Exchequers. They are super cute, though.

They are available!

 

[Parront]

they're very cute. are they newly hatched from your incubator?

No, from Sandhill. I ordered them for last year, but there was bad weather and his birds quit laying. Then more bad weather, I had given up on them and hatched out some ducks, now I have lots of chicks! These were part of the mixed chicks -- what I wanted was the Dorkings and White Rocks. The White Rocks are still back-ordered, and I think I do not need them any more, at least this year.

 

[Parront]

I have heard that some people who live in area's like that will prep for possible times like that by packing some of those thing's that they would need if having to evacuate in those plastic container tub's that have the lid's on them and have them somewhere close to where they would be exiting the house from or in a shed.

Dylan the African Grey is trained, "Let's go" means we get in the carrier and go for a ride, and get lots of treats and attention on a car trip. We take her with often enough -- at least, before Covid, to make it a fun treat, not a panic attack emergency. The ducks are trained to go into their crates every night, I could take them. Chickens, I would not have enough carriers for an evac.

 

[Parront]

I used to keep a "bugout list" on the fridge during wildfire season. Really glad it was there when I needed it, because when that fire was bearing down on us, my brain went into autopilot and I wasn't thinking clearly. My Boston Terrier was tearing around the yard at full speed in a panic. Finally cornered the little booger and stuffed him into the 4Runner. Everyone was breathing through their mouths because the smoke was so thick.

The authorities told us to leave the water on in case they needed it to fight for our houses, and to turn the gas off. As I was leaving I was doing well over the speed limit, but the policeman on the highway access road was waving his arm at me to go faster, faster. That's the only time a cop has ever told me to speed, LOL. The fire stopped about half a mile from my house as the crow flies, about 3 miles by roads.

I hope you never have to evacuate from one. We got to come home for Memorial Day, and signs thanking the firemen sprung up all over. At a yard sale in June, one of the firemen was talking to someone and said if the fire had happened a month later, it would have been direr, and they would have lost my area. That's when living in the pines lost its charm for me. Stuff Superman and Batman, firemen and slurry bomber pilots are the true heroes.

When we lived in a Mobile Home Park in the forrest, I got in the habit of keeping an evacuation bag packed, we have some things we do not want to do without. I usually keep some out-of-season summer clothes in it, our plan is to go to some relatives in Phoenix. I keep computer data backed up on a portable hard drive in our bank safe deposit box. I also keep copies of our paperwork, deeds and insurance, on a flash drive in my purse.