Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Do you know about when the Bielefelders will hatch?

The end of this month, but it will be a small batch as I was waiting for the incubator to clear some of those duck egg's.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well my roommate just asked me if you are going to be selling any of the chicks (pullets). I don't know where she thinks we would keep them as the coop parts are still sitting in the yard and the coop is about number four in the list of our current projects! We are trying madly to get everything done before it gets crazy hot.

Maybe you should wait on getting chick's until you get those first 3 project's out of the way so that you can start working on the coop. The girl's will need a home to live in.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Wow, the peacocks are gorgeous! There’s a park in the next town that has several that hang out. They get up into the trees and are very calm around people. I love to visit. Are you going to breed them?

Ya...I've been breeding peafowl for 10 or 11 years but this will be my first Java breeding. The fellow that brought me the boy lost his girl this winter so he asked if I'll breed them and split this years babies with him. I get to keep the boy as well. for a good breeding season!

 

[igorsMistress]

Ya...I've been breeding peafowl for 10 or 11 years but this will be my first Java breeding. The fellow that brought me the boy lost his girl this winter so he asked if I'll breed them and split this years babies with him. I get to keep the boy as well. for a good breeding season!

Super cool, I hope you’ll share pics of the babies. I have never seen a baby peafowl before I don’t think. Do you let mama hatch or do you do it yourself in an incubator?

 

[ChicksnMore]

Super cool, I hope you’ll share pics of the babies. I have never seen a baby peafowl before I don’t think. Do you let mama hatch or do you do it yourself in an incubator?

Incubator. I get a higher hatch rate that way. Probably because my girls have never had the chance to learn. I did let my oegb spangles hatch a clutch this year. She ended up with 3 babies out of 6 eggs. Five hatched but the first hatched died in the nest and another chick died in the first couple days when it was still cold. Cutest thing watching the whole flock loving those chicks though.
Do you do an incubator or let your ladies hatch? I'm very curious to know other people's experience with letting their girls hatch.
Here's some of last year's babies.

 

[BlueBaby]

Finally got someone over here to trim and haul away the trimming's of that big mesquite tree this morning. It was already growing down past the fence line by the street. It's costing us $1,000.00 to have it done.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Finally got someone over here to trim and haul away the trimming's of that big mesquite tree this morning. It was already growing down past the fence line by the street. It's costing us $1,000.00 to have it done.

Our tree trimmers will chip the wood for us and didn't charge extra for that. Thought you might like the idea if your trimmers will toss chipping in free. Those wood chips are handy to have.

Wow that's expensive eh...must have been a huge old mesquite!

 

[BlueBaby]

Our tree trimmers will chip the wood for us and didn't charge extra for that. Thought you might like the idea if your trimmers will toss chipping in free. Those wood chips are handy to have.

Wow that's expensive eh...must have been a huge old mesquite!

Yes, it has been there for year's and was terribly overgrown. Remind me again why people want to have tree's.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Maybe you should wait on getting chick's until you get those first 3 project's out of the way so that you can start working on the coop. The girl's will need a home to live in.

This is an older house so there are always projects to be done. But isn't the #1 rule about getting chickens: don't get any until the coop has been built? I agree and we won't do that. She is talking more and more about it but she often talks without doing anything concrete (no pun intended). Then one day out of nowhere she'll suddenly get up and get a ton of stuff done. I've never been able to figure out where that tipping point is! It's her house, though, so we do things on her schedule.

She is a nice person, just more of a theorist than a doer which frustrates me but I don't mean to malign her on here. She has been a good friend for thirty years (my gosh has it been that long? I feel old).

 

[BlueBaby]

This is an older house so there are always projects to be done. But isn't the #1 rule about getting chickens: don't get any until the coop has been built? I agree and we won't do that. She is talking more and more about it but she often talks without doing anything concrete (no pun intended). Then one day out of nowhere she'll suddenly get up and get a ton of stuff done. I've never been able to figure out where that tipping point is! It's her house, though, so we do things on her schedule.

She is a nice person, just more of a theorist than a doer which frustrates me but I don't mean to malign her on here. She has been a good friend for thirty years (my gosh has it been that long? I feel old).

When you get your coop built let me know. I want my babies to have good home's to live in.