Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

My nephew just sent me a recipe for chicken food, he told me I should check out BackYard Chickens, I can get a lot of information. I've told him many times i'm a member.

memory issues..

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

!!! I just heard my girls making distress noises at 12 o'clock at night, so I ran downstairs and into my backyard in my underwear and sure enough a HUGE owl took off from the clothes line that's 5 feet from my coop !!!!!! It had like a 6 ft wingspan! My heart is racing! I live in the middle of a neighborhood and have never had problems with predators so I'm worried.... now I can hear it cooing :'0!!!

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

I don't think I'll be sleeping any more tonight..... D8

 

[Squawk!]

Noodles - I'm so sorry for your loss.We started with a pair of red sex-links hens and when one died her "Sissy" screamed and screamed when I took the body out. Never will forget that... She kept peeking into the hen house, perhaps confused by the weird nap her friend was taking. I shoulda known better although it appeared to be a quick demise. This bird knew something was terribly wrong. They're not as dumb as most folks think. (8 days of around 110F heat and they still layed everyday - even with misters and ice jugs it was just too much).I doubt I'll do sex-links again, suspect they just lay themselves to death.

I know its probably too late, but some folks do cremate pet chickens. If she's a close pet, I don't think its silly. A pet's a pet.

Meredith

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Oh Shoot I thought it was you that told me what ground grain to use for it really does work great.
Grains are good for solidifying loose poop--especially before a show--and are good nutrition

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Quote:
The presence of dogs will have little or no impact on whether your chickens get tapeworms. Tapeworms are relatively specific about their hosts. Dogs are most often infected with Dipylidium caninum which use fleas as their intermediate hosts and less commonly by different species of Taenia and Echinococcus which use rodents, rabbits and other large mammals as their intermediate hosts. Chickens are infected by completely different species, primarily from three genera of tapeworms Choanotaenia, Hymenolepsis and Raillietina. Their intermediate hosts are all arthropods, not dogs. I don't think the eggs survive long on the soil surface in our climate, but they can be harbored within their intermediate hosts.


Species

Principal host

Intermediate host

Length of mature worm (mm)
Amoebotaenia cuneata

Chicken

Earthworms

3
Choanotaenia infundibulum

Chicken

Housefly, beetles

50-200
Davainea proglottina

Chicken

Slugs, snails

4
Echinostoma revolutum

Chicken, duck, turkey

Various species of water snail

10-22
Hymenolepsis cantaniana

Chicken

Beetles

20
Hymenolepsis carioca

Chicken

Stable fly, dung beetles

40
Prosthogonimus macrorchis

Chicken, duck

Water snail and then dragon fly

5-7
Raillietina cesticullus

Chicken

Beetles

50-150
Raillietina tetragona

Chicken

Ants

100-250
Raillietina magninumida

Chicken

Ants

200-340
Raillietina echinobothrida

Guinea-fowl

Beetles

50-150


Table source.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

!!! I just heard my girls making distress noises at 12 o'clock at night, so I ran downstairs and into my backyard in my underwear and sure enough a HUGE owl took off from the clothes line that's 5 feet from my coop !!!!!! It had like a 6 ft wingspan! My heart is racing! I live in the middle of a neighborhood and have never had problems with predators so I'm worried.... now I can hear it cooing :'0!!!

Wow, that's quite an image. It must have been trying to get inside if the chickens were making distress calls. We once had a Great Horned Owl roost for over a month in the eucalyptus tree above the coop. FWIW, it doesn't much matter where you live, there are predators everywhere. I live in the center of Tucson and we regularly get hawks visiting the yard and there are coyotes, raccoons, bobcats and skunks in the neighborhood too. Of course, dogs are always an issue.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

No, too young to know what questions to ask. She was into Heath food, made her own vitamins from rosé hips, candy flowers, unrefined sugar, her own root beer from bear root. It was one more thing that was my grandmother. That side of my family came to this county in the 1700's, so a long history, I think that the gray stuff was a clay to remove poisons and toxins. Taught to her from her pioneer family to prevent food poisoning, with no refrigerator, death being part of life, I am pretty sure it was a clay.

Wow, what a true blessing. I wish I would of known her.
I love that kind of info..

So would I, I was to young to know what to ask. To me she was my grandmother and everybody had one like her. I remember bets of what she told me. The hybrid roses are beautiful but the wild roses are the best for candy and rose hips. The stronger the smile the better the flower. Pansy's were my favorite. That burnt toast I actually started to like, but no butter on it. I do remember her root beer, it dose not tast anything like store bought, I loved it. She stopped making it because she said she couldn't get the root any more. We were in Mpls. and they were sent to her. I am not sure, I think she said the roots had to be fresh for really good rootbeer. I was fascinated with watching the cabin action form. Sad isn't it, that is the memory I remember best, the bubbles.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I don't think I'll be sleeping any more tonight..... D8

Your a good daddy, you sleep with one ear open for you girls. It had to have been a Great Horned Owl, a friend of mine lost a goose to one. A bad *** bird. it will really make your heart skip a beat any time.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Gallo del Cielo your fantastic