Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

Dust storm in South Scottsdale! YeeHaw!

You got that right I'm now eating your dust.. Just went & locked down only part of out flock.. The others were like
"NO WAY" so the original flock was hanging around the broodies.. Still no pip'n..
Loraine will not get off those eggs.. I am oly giving her till Sunday ..
Had to make sure the wind does not lift away the three new babies..
ENJOY

 

[City farm]

Well, I had to chuckle to myself this morning. On March 12 (four months ago today) I bought five day old RIR chicks, one week later (March 19) I bought six more chicks including a male White Leghorn, and then a week later (March 26) I bought four more chicks. The five female chicks from the 19th were Samorn Faverliers, this was partially to make up for the devastating loss we suffered last year from my sister's dog getting in the yard and killing ten chickens all in one day. The wait has been well worth while, they have all grown to be beautiful girls, and seem to want to stay away from the eight survivors that we started out with from a year ago March when I started my "Chicken Journey." Well, I guess that little guy is finally all grown up. I was 'gifted' a beautiful male chicken several months ago, and he has been a great asset to the original flock, he was quarantined for thirty days to insure that he wouldn't bring anything bad into the flock, and the girls accepted him immediately on his release, and he really hasn't had much to do with the 'younger' flock, but as he was just standing there looking over his domain, the younger male walked up to and mounted one of the younger RIRs and the older male didn't interfere at all. He was less than ten feet away, watching the whole thing, and I started chuckling. Like I have said so many times, Chicken TV is better than TV. I have to really feel sorry for all the folks that worry about neighbors complaining about rooster crows. We are very rural here, and only one neighbor has mentioned the rooster calls, and he likes the sound, it reminds him of his youth and "better" days. And I hardly hear the younger rooster at all, though I HAVE heard him a time or two. Skip

Yes, chicken TV rocks... We & our surrounding neighbors love the sound of kent..

 

[Twinklin]

It just came through here in North Scottsdale. I went to shoo the girls into the coop but they beat me to it. They're locked up tight now so they don't blow away.

 

[desertmarcy]

I need to thin out some birds. I've got lots of pullets for sale, from a couple of months old to about 4 months old. Some will be laying soon. All my birds are standard bred, not hatchery stock, raised on organic feed. The ones I am selling have various faults for show quality, like toe feathering on the New Hampshires, one kinked toe on the Barred Rocks, dark eyes on the Marans, but they are all guaranteed pullets and beautiful birds for layers. I've got Good Shepard Barred Rock, German New Hampshires, Black Copper Marans, Blue Copper Marans, Splash Orpington, and one extra olive egger (Marans X Ameraucana). Prices vary by breed and age but generally $20 and up. PM me if interested, I also have males of these except the Orpington. Here are some representative photos:

 

[Demosthine]

Well, we made it back from the camping trip and all had a great time. We got hammered with hail and rain on Wednesday afternoon. It was so beautiful and perfect. It was one heck of a surprise to come home and find our turkeys had nearly doubled in size! Apparently, my Dad was feeding the flock really, really well while we were gone. Then, they got all the left over food we didn't eat. Breakfast burritos, Chorizo burritos, chicken strips, chili... Yeah, they get anything that's left over here at our house. Nothing even makes it to the black soldier fly composter I was attempting to get running. The clan gets it all first!

I just placed the order for the three of us getting the pasture grass mixture for our yards. It worked out perfectly. Between the seeds and the five grow trays I got to try sprouting, the package comes in at 38 pounds, which is just 2 pounds shy of the shipping maximum per box. I couldn't have planned that better. It's backordered, though, so I'm not sure when it'll ship out. They say "Estimated Shipping: July 12th" but that's today, so I'm really not sure. We've got a few months before it's planting season for overseeding the lawn anyway. No rush.

Okay so Im here to ask a huge favor!!! So we were supposed to have a coop built and delivered for our school chickens. Well the people totally fell through at the last minute so we are now out of a coop. If anyone has any sort of structure that they dont need then we would greatly need it. We have absolutely no money so it makes building one quite a pain. Thanks guys!

Well our little brats get the rhine... "The things I do for the flock" that is what I am saying to myself as I take the turbo blender
& grind up the left over Rhine from watermelon & cantaloupe... Spoiled rotten little stinkers.. So I tell them they better let me
pick them up whether they like it or NOT!!! Enjoy this hot weather... It will be gone soon..

Someday I am gona say, "pop on over for BREW day!!" I am dreaming about it..

You blend up the rinds for them? And here I thought mine were spoiled... I just toss mine out the back door and let them go to town. By the time they are done, it is so thin that you can see through it. Sometimes, they even eat holes all the way through. I don't think there's a single grain of sand worth of meat left on it. Aside from cutting the fruit and veggies in to quarters and such, they get it just the way it's grown.

 

[City farm]

Well, we made it back from the camping trip and all had a great time.  We got hammered with hail and rain on Wednesday afternoon.  It was so beautiful and perfect.  It was one heck of a surprise to come home and find our turkeys had nearly doubled in size!  Apparently, my Dad was feeding the flock really, really well while we were gone.  Then, they got all the left over food we didn't eat.  Breakfast burritos, Chorizo burritos, chicken strips, chili...  Yeah, they get anything that's left over here at our house.  Nothing even makes it to the black soldier fly composter I was attempting to get running.  The clan gets it all first!

I just placed the order for the three of us getting the pasture grass mixture for our yards.  It worked out perfectly.  Between the seeds and the five grow trays I got to try sprouting, the package comes in at 38 pounds, which is just 2 pounds shy of the shipping maximum per box.  I couldn't have planned that better.  It's backordered, though, so I'm not sure when it'll ship out.  They say "Estimated Shipping: July 12th" but that's today, so I'm really not sure.  We've got a few months before it's planting season for overseeding the lawn anyway.  No rush.


You blend up the rinds for them?  And here I thought mine were spoiled...  I just toss mine out the back door and let them go to town.  By the time they are done, it is so thin that you can see through it.  Sometimes, they even eat holes all the way through.  I don't think there's a single grain of sand worth of meat left on it.  Aside from cutting the fruit and veggies in to quarters and such, they get it just the way it's grown.

Yes I have to admit I blend up the rind for them...
Where did ya all go camping?? We are just talking about camping last night.. I would love a camping trip to Tucson
then head for a brewing day with maddbaggins... Tucson is still warm but he mentioned water & camping... Our
kind of trip.. We will see if it can get for into the summer plans??

 

[mckenzy]

Dust storm in South Scottsdale! YeeHaw!

it made its way to us up here in N Phoenix too! And some rain!!! My Beeps are so confused by it. :"water? from the sky? cant escape it by running? Buckawwwwk!"

 

[Demosthine]

City Farm, we were up on the Mogollon Rim at Knoll Lake. It was fabulously cool and overcast the whole time. Plus, it is so far North in that area that it is not overcrowded like many of the others.

We were walking distance from the lake, too, so it was nice. I caught two trout and taught my eldest daughter to clean them. There were a few bald eagles frequenting the lake, and I think one had a nest with eaglets. I even had a heart of at least nine elk show up in a grassy cove across the way. There were two foals, but I never saw the Buck. He must have been hiding in the treeline keeping watch.

I can't recommend the Rim often enough. It's been our summer spot since I was a baby. Willow Springs Lake, Woods Canyon Lake and Knoll Lake. Many great, great memories.

 

[Timskins]

City Farm, we were up on the Mogollon Rim at Knoll Lake. It was fabulously cool and overcast the whole time. Plus, it is so far North in that area that it is not overcrowded like many of the others.

We were walking distance from the lake, too, so it was nice. I caught two trout and taught my eldest daughter to clean them. There were a few bald eagles frequenting the lake, and I think one had a nest with eaglets. I even had a heart of at least nine elk show up in a grassy cove across the way. There were two foals, but I never saw the Buck. He must have been hiding in the treeline keeping watch.

I can't recommend the Rim often enough. It's been our summer spot since I was a baby. Willow Springs Lake, Woods Canyon Lake and Knoll Lake. Many great, great memories.

Love the rim area! We usually end up by Bear Canyon lake, it gets over run during the heart of the summer though. Have done Knoll and Chevlon as well. Love that area tons of memories up there. Small world.

 

[countrygirl74]

Question about candling...

My silkie was sitting on 4 eggs - they are due to hatch anytime really in the next few days... one was a dud so I threw it out. So, now she has 3. Two of them are 2/3's filled up and the last 1/3 is the air cell, but the 3rd one is completely dark and full. Is the third one ok? I thought there should be some type of air cell? Or is it just more advanced?

This is my very first time EVER using a broody and candling - and I just candled maybe once a week. All the other times, we didn't even candle and we just used an incubator with pretty good results.