Arizona Chickens

[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.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

When I checked a few minutes after my last post, one chick was out of the egg. It's been trying to follow me and peeping, followed by a faceplant and quick nap, then following me and peeping again, then a faceplant and quick nap, wash, rinse, repeat.

The second one has opened the egg enough to breathe, but is not getting any further out. A third egg that I dropped on Day 16 and repaired with wax seems to be vibrating a little every now and then. The other two eggs look like they have stretched a bit and are fuller/rounder than they were before, but no sign of pipping or movement yet.

Since I can't find the disinfectant anywhere, I washed out the brooder box with Dawn dish detergent.

The chick that hatched sure has a lot to say.

 

[CaroleW]

Snakes are out and active -- saw a 3-4 foot king snake (striped yellow black) in our pole barn last nite. And My DH said he saw a baby rattler at work right under the keycard entry door - he told the landscaper he doesn't deal with snakes and he made him take care of it. Then they spread the word to security and the rest of staff at school.