Arizona Chickens

[Mahonri]

Warm week ahead.... I have someone who says they are coming from So. Cal to get some of my eggs....

 

[ca]

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Congrats Mahonri on your award! Very cool.

 

[mclevinson]

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Supposed to be mid-80's then upper 80's end of week. Sigh. I wish I had an incubator. I kinda took apart what my DH has started for the pens. Went to Lowes for a few more boards and started on the wire stapling. What I envisioned was a pen made of independant frames so that I can reconfigure them whenever and however I want. Now it is coming together, I'm jazzed. Have some scraps left and looking at them all I could think was...isolation cage, brooder...feed bin.... Oh my. I've got it bad.

So how do new chicks do in the heat? What time of year gets too hot for chickies?

 

[mclevinson]

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Nice award

very cool.

 

[ca]

From today's AZ Republic:

Wandering chickens are crossing the roads in a Phoenix neighborhood, but county and city officials say they don't have the authority - or a punch line - to explain why.
The vagabond flock of about five chickens travels among houses near 29th Avenue and West Latham Street, scaling fences, eating grass in people's yards, enjoying the view from rooftops - and irritating at least one local homeowner.

One resident from the neighborhood has asked the city and Maricopa County to control the itinerant chickens, calling them a nuisance. But officials from both jurisdictions say their hands are tied. Phoenix's animal ordinance prohibits residents from keeping poultry without written permission. The city has spacing and maintenance requirements for coops to prevent chickens from wandering off their owners' properties. But that applies only to birds whose owners can be identified. The city has no rules for feral chickens. Maricopa County officials say they're guided by state statute, which authorizes them to control cats and dogs, not chickens.

Lynelle Nowlin, a resident of the neighborhood just south of Interstate 10, said he just wants someone - anyone - to do something about the gallivanting fowl. "The chickens are proliferating," said Nowlin, 63. "This is not the way our neighborhoods are supposed to be." The Phoenix Neighborhood Preservation Division normally deals with animal-control issues like these. But until the division's inspectors can prove someone owns or is feeding the chickens, there's no one to cite for violating the city's rules, said Gary New, neighborhood-preservation area supervisor. "We can only pursue chickens if they belong to a residence," New said. The situation isn't unique to this neighborhood. City and county officials say they know of a few others that have roaming chickens. But the dilemma of establishing ownership and figuring out who has the jurisdiction to control chickens remains.
The first step is to confirm that these chickens are, in fact, feral. Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox said the county will then call on farm groups that may be interested in trapping the chickens. But some farmers are concerned these chickens carry diseases, said Rodrigo Silva, assistant county manager for community collaboration and director of the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control Unit. For now, the county is waiting until the city can confirm that nobody owns the birds.

 

[CrazyerThanAverage]

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Congrats on your broody! Have you checked Craigslist posts? I think there have been a few in the last several days in the Tucson area. Now if you are willing to head north, you should have no trouble

Good luck!

Thanks Constance. Saddly, my schedule won't let me go north in the next few days. I did check Craigs list and found one person with fertilized eggs. (She thinks, I hope.) I could have gotten some yesterday, but she had already washed them and put them in the frig. So I asked her to save me today's, unwashed and not refrigerated. I'll get them this afternoon. Might as well give Betsy the best available odds. She is still sitting tight this morning. I'm starting to get excited!

 

[NoSkiveez]

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Yes, but they are not laying. I'm still looking for eggs. The lady I was planning to get eggs from lost two hens and can't supply enough eggs to make it worth the cost of shipping. I'm looking to get a variety of Blue Faverolles and Salmons.

 

[NoSkiveez]

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Feral chickens. Now I've heard it all. I hope the solution isn't registerig your flock with AC&C, rabies vaccines and microchipping...lol.

 

[CrazyerThanAverage]

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Feral chickens. Now I've heard it all. I hope the solution isn't registerig your flock with AC&C, rabies vaccines and microchipping...lol.

Will we have to put harnesses on them so they can wear their "chicken" tags?

 

[turkeybreeder]

I have an auction for turkey eggs
if anyone in arizona wants to bid
here is the link
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=462073