Welcome Queenrilly, and you are correct, Stockton Hill Feed and Grain. They are on Stockton Hill just South of Northern. You can't really miss them, there is a large fiberglass horse (larger than life) out in front, which they recently covered with a Horse Blanket.
I went in to see them a few days ago, they will be taking pre-orders in February for March delivery. I don't know if that means you prepay for your chicks, but you can call them and ask. I would give you their phone number, but I seem to have mislaid the card I had on my desk. However, if you look them up on the Internet I am sure that you'll find them.
The owner and the manager of the store, as well as several others that work there, also live here in Golden Valley.
There are some great lots with and without houses for sale in the area, you just have to drive around looking. I know my sister has just about made up her mind to sell one of her rentals, it down on the south side of the Highway (State Route 68), but only by a mile, and it is closer to Laughlin than my property by a couple of miles.
Most of the properties North of Shinnirup have all utilities, and the worst you'll find south of there needs water hauled in, but that's only a weekly job, drive a trailer with water tank to the water depot, fill it, and take it home, them pump it up to storage then gravity feed it into your home and acreage. That shouldn't take more than an hour once a week or so. Water depots are all over the valley, including one across the street from her rental property, and I am pretty sure her place has water on the property.
On the North side of "The Highway" (again that refers to State Highway 68) almost every one has all utilities. And if you DO haul water, make your trailer do double duty, instead of having your trash picked up, take your trash to the dump every couple of months. I think the average cost for trash pick-up is around $30 per month, but with a very small 3' X 4' trailer I go to the dump on average once every three months with three families trash and have yet to pay more than the minimum for disposal, $5.20.
As for raising chickens here, it was great until the bad weather set in. I lost eight chickens one morning about a week or so ago, just about the time the cold set in. I think it was wild cats from the mountains, maybe cougar, maybe bobcats, not at all sure, then my rooster died yesterday morning and I have no clue what happened to him. I found him in the coop when I went out to check for eggs. I still have my original eight gals, plus two surviving Leghorns from that attack. I stopped at Stockton Hill F&G on Tuesday, and they took my order for March, I am going to have 50 more chickens this year, and possibly 50 more next year, I have wanted around 100 all along. I'll be much more careful about Free Ranging them this time, it may only be when I am there to supervise.
A friend in Oatman lost his entire flock the night I lost my eight, so it ISN'T just Oatman or Golden Valley that suffers from predators, Oatman is a good thirty mines away from me.
Good luck on the move, and keep us informed.
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what am I doing? We all know all of this, preaching to the choir again.
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