Arizona Chickens

[Mama Hen Chris]

haha i love that. you do have talent with pictures i must say, a good camera is just a bonus. i have a regular digital and my parents have this fancy nikon super camera that i always borrow, its a sharper image sure, but i still have no clue about lighting and angles and such, lol.
love your pictures.
sorry to hear about your loss. i am going to google silver leghorn now, i bet she was a beauty. my chickens rush the gate a lot as well. i think because they enjoy eating every speck of green thing in my yard and the POND! my brahma reached the hyacinth almost a foot from the edge and ate all the tops off (does anyone know if those will come back?) they zoom past my legs during feeding time and then want back in because they see everyone else eating and all they have now is dirt, lol. they used to fly at the gate together and it would open. it was freaky, and i had to move it over so the latch was more secure. fortunately for me most of my chickens are bigger than my dogs, lol

Thank you. I have a Canon RebelXT. Have had it for 8 years now.Luckily I had the zoom lens on. The hawk was only about 15 feet above us. It still comes and hangs out in the neighbor's pine tree. All the doves scatter and I know it's in there somewhere.

 

[Mahonri]

Did I mention I got my first blue egg out of my 4 Wheatie Am girls in months! Time to put the Blue Wheaten roo with her and see if he can get jiggy with it. Luckily he still hasn't started to crow, but he is turning into eye candy. LOVE IT.

 

[AZChickenQueen]

Thanks, guys, for the kind words - I know it's "just a chicken" and all, but when you raise 'em from lil' cheeps - sigh. Oh well, tomorrow's another day and all...

 

[Fuzzybird]

Here they are the awaited pictures of my 4 Serama Chicks!
Berry, the dark one and the smallest. Toy, Twinkle and Tinsel.

 

[desertmarcy]

Hi all, might anybody local be interested in buying an adult pair of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes? The male is blue and the female is the black phase, so chicks will be 50% blue and 50% black. This is a hard decision for me, because I really like them, especially the male, he is so mellow and laid back. But I just have too many different breeds going on here, I have to give something up. PM if interested, I can get new photos tomorrow.

 

[Gospel Birds]

Thank You! Great pix. I hope you post more as they mature. Tomas

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Congrats on the "first egg" from Miss Nellie! The pic made me smile, which I need to do right about now, as I lost my little silver leghorn today, not to a coyote but to one of my own dang dogs!!

I feel like it was my own stupid fault - dogs were in the yard but not close by(we have over an acre) and I opened the gate to one of the chicken yards to put out some scratch. BAM! Little hen just made a beeline right past me, squeezed through the narrow opening (I was shutting the gate) and ran right into the yard where one of the dogs got her lickety-split. Nothing to be done but dispose of the poor lil' thing and I just feel so horrible.

I have no idea what possessed her to do that! The food was INSIDE the yard! I have also noticed that the other silver leghorn I got with her (which is a rooster) likes to try to bum-rush the gate so now I am wondering - is this a leghorn thing? My other breeds of hens don't seem to do this, and they are in areas that are plenty big...Guess I have a new rule: no dogs out in the back when we're going in and out of the chicken areas.

You need to train your dogs that the chickens are OFF LIMITS. Leghorns tend to be flighty; a reason that I am not overly fond of them. My great grandmother would roll over in her grave; as far as she was concerned, leghorns were THE BEST breed. She got all upset when my aunt (a very young girl at the time) mentioned how pretty the neighbor's "domineckers" were.

 

[Rezia]

Hi all, might anybody local be interested in buying an adult pair of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes? The male is blue and the female is the black phase, so chicks will be 50% blue and 50% black. This is a hard decision for me, because I really like them, especially the male, he is so mellow and laid back. But I just have too many different breeds going on here, I have to give something up. PM if interested, I can get new photos tomorrow.

Yes, please post photo's! I'd probably buy them, but we cannot have a rooster that crows a lot.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Thank You! Great pix. I hope you post more as they mature. Tomas

Oh I will, Tomas Thanks

 

[kukupecpec]

Hey there! I haven't checked back to this thread in a while, thought I would pop in, check it out, and ask a few questions while I'm at it!

I'm in Tucson, I have been looking around for info on what is needed for my chickens in the winter, and everything winter-y is really aimed at the snowy northern cold. I was wondering how protected from the cold our desert birds need to be? Right now I have them in a pretty open run/coop. I'm not sure what I need to do to make sure they are all safe when the frosts start to hit.