Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Yeah, I get it. You have made great contributions on here. Do you remember @desertmarcy ? I wonder if she is still around? She was famous for turkeys. If I remember correctly, she was in Marana

Yes, I remember her, but I don't think that she ever comes to BYC anymore, unless she's now under another name? Same with Desertchic, that was our first to have the Naked Neck's in AZ. as far as I know.

 

[BlueBaby]

It is spreading north and west. I drove to the entrance of the base camp and I still see a full lot of tents and vehicles of all types. No mention of spring valley being on ready status or anything. I think the fire is 10 miles away. I can see the base camp whenever I drive out of the community so if I see them bugging out I'll know. Plus when I look south out of my back yard. Thanks for asking!

Do you have a plan in place in case you have to evacuate?

 

[springvalley123]

Do you have a plan in place in case you have to evacuate?

yes but the birds are a closed flock due to sneezing, so I couldn't take them to a shelter. they sneezed a while back and two of them sneezed recently but nothing has developed. the best I could do is leave them a bunch of food and water. If I leave the mister going it'll be cool enough but stinky and unhealthy, so I think I'd leave a hose on a trickle for wet ground to cool off with. I do have a crate and portable litter box for the cat and containers for our meds, important papers etc. AS to where to go, depends on which way the fire is going.

 

[BlueBaby]

Really, this now? A hired hitman to take out a peacock?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/peacock-killed-craigslist-ad

 

[springvalley123]

Really, this now? A hired hitman to take out a peacock?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/peacock-killed-craigslist-ad

The poor bird suffered. I'm even more saddened by all the intolerance and meanness and hate in the comments to the article.

 

[BlueBaby]

The poor bird suffered. I'm even more saddened by all the intolerance and meanness and hate in the comments to the article.

Me, too! I wonder if they will start doing that to crowing rooster's too? At least I live rural, so it's not too close to any neighbor's that don't have any chicken's. I also don't free-range, so mine don't get out of my yard to go into someone else's yard.

 

[BlueBaby]

@Geckolady Do any of the egg's look like they are trying to hatch yet?

 

[BlueBaby]

I found this interesting a bit ago, so I bookmarked it. It's about thing's that you can do if you think that someone might be stealing your chicken's if the SHTF later or something:

https://cluckin.net/stop-chickens-from-being-stolen.html

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

@Geckolady Do any of the egg's look like they are trying to hatch yet?

Lots of peeping, one egg is pipping and one is unzipping. They seem a lot livelier than the one that hatched in May. *fingers crossed*

I've looked all over for the disinfectant that I bought when I got the coop. Will a bleach solution work to clean the brooder?

 

[CaroleW]

Power out for a couple hours yesterday afternoon. I just kept my incubator covered with a blanket and reset the memory on the incutherm to see what the temp/humidity went to (28% and 95.9). Also I ordered a battery connector kit as soon as power back on - I'll be ready for a brown out next time if it's longer.