Arizona Chickens

[Demosthine]

You can hatch the small pullet eggs but most people prefer to wait until the eggs are bigger. Chicks hatching out from those small eggs will be very small is the reason. They should grow and be as big as any other I have heard. Personally I wait for the eggs to get to a bigger size unless there is some overwhelming reason I am in a hurry to hatch chicks from a certain bird or breed.
Just because they are mating, does not mean the cockerel is fertile. Fertility goes down in the heat.

Well, dang Marcy, there goes that idea... ;-) Guess I better watch closer to see if the eggs have the bullseye next few times I crack 'em open...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I have a huge colony of harvester ants that have just discovered my grape vines... they are trekking from one side of our yard, around the house, and over a wall to get to the vines! My husband is hellbent on destroying the colony, but hasn't had any success.

What would happen if I gave the ants a ton of seeds right next to their home? Would they leave the vines alone then? Or, would the colony just get bigger?

Make them walk through a THICK line of DE to get to the vines.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

I have a huge colony of harvester ants that have just discovered my grape vines... they are trekking from one side of our yard, around the house, and over a wall to get to the vines! My husband is hellbent on destroying the colony, but hasn't had any success.

What would happen if I gave the ants a ton of seeds right next to their home? Would they leave the vines alone then? Or, would the colony just get bigger?

Probably get bigger. How about Amdro? Just make sure it's out of any of the pets reach. I love pissing off the colony and dropping a few granules and watch them take them down the hole.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

New to BYC. Been raising chickens since last year. Absolutely love it. Quick question for anyone who can help. I've been asked to give a class on backyard production and am having a heck of a time finding the city ordinances regarding chickens for Sierra Vista, AZ. Can anyone point me in the direction to get this info? I've looked at the zoning ordinances and county ordinances and have had no luck. Any help would be great. Thx

-SAZUGT

Welcome to the site. The very extreme few times I've gotten on this website from my phone the format has something different that had a spot to plug in your city. From there it gave allot of rules and regs. Sorry that's probably not much help.

 

[countrygirl74]

This last weekend, my last hen from the original AZ batch got as old as she could. She was 8 and a half years old. Sweety will be missed.
I do have four pullets that I'm raising but they haven't become as friendly as Sweety was. Hopefully they will in time.

So sorry for your loss of Sweety. I love when you have some that live for so long - so wonderful! My sister has one that is around that age and just became a mama again, probably for the last time. She always says that if any of her other chickens get hurt or sick, they will just have to deal with it, but for that one special older one, she would pay a vet bill.

Hopefully the new ones will become as personable but probably will never be quite the same as that special one.

Wings, my white turkey is dead. What ever it was it took her fast.

That's the 3rd loved turkey this summer. Banner my young tom Royal Palm, My 6 year old Blue Bell and now wings. Lost all those chickens, including my 6-7 year old Tumbleweed, silky roo, with the coyote finding a way in under the fence in the wash. WE are down to one Maran hen and two worthless young RR mix roos and one turkey tom heading for November dinner. Almost don't care anymore about having fowl for awhile.

So sorry for your losses this year... Don't give up - sometimes you just have to chalk it up to a tough year. By the way, I LOVE the name Tumbleweed for a silkie roo!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

The people I got my eggs from said they are of pure stock, I'm taking their word for it. They all had 100% satisfaction ratings. We will see. The supplier of the eggs have no control over the hatch rate, but both calmed that the eggs are from hens not pullets with proven recorders. You can see by the photo, half are what I call dark brown, they are the Lemon C Marans eggs, you can mot see it but most of them are a large medium or small large. The chocolate ones are all large with 1 I think is extra large, I hope it is not a double yoke.

I am going to see if I can make a pen light or get one that I can use to see more, the egg light gives me dark shadows. It is a good idea.
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Isn't there someplace in Gilbert or south of Tempe that has vet supply's some one mentioned. If I do go to Tuscon, and not to fare out of the way maybe I could stock up on basic chicken needs. . . Worming and common diseases, right now 7-dust, Bag Balm, Vaseline, vitamins, Electrolytes, probiotics, that blue spray stuff and a general med is it. BY THE WAY: I have a skin condition for about 7 or 8 years, I know what it is not, at first I went to 2 or 3 skin doctors a year, then gave up. Most of them told me not t o wash my hand but once a day....... YA! Sure, I'm going to do that. I wore gloves to hind them at times when my hands wore raw flesh. I used that blue medicated spray on dove to see how often I caught them. I got it all over my hands. I have no sign of my skin condition. The can is clearly marked "not for human use". But it worked, no idea what it was in it, but now I can add not an allergy to the list of what it was not. But I think at the first sign of it coming back, I'm going to glue feathers on and start clucking. I've heard it said Vets are better doctors the people doctors, maybe their arsenal is a little different.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Wings, my white turkey is dead. What ever it was it took her fast.

That's the 3rd loved turkey this summer. Banner my young tom Royal Palm, My 6 year old Blue Bell and now wings. Lost all those chickens, including my 6-7 year old Tumbleweed, silky roo, with the coyote finding a way in under the fence in the wash. WE are down to one Maran hen and two worthless young RR mix roos and one turkey tom heading for November dinner. Almost don't care anymore about having fowl for awhile.

I'm speechless, I'm so sorry for your loss. if my Orp gets better you can have her, she is sweet and very quite.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I have a huge colony of harvester ants that have just discovered my grape vines... they are trekking from one side of our yard, around the house, and over a wall to get to the vines! My husband is hellbent on destroying the colony, but hasn't had any success.

What would happen if I gave the ants a ton of seeds right next to their home? Would they leave the vines alone then? Or, would the colony just get bigger?

 

ALL ants avoid Camphor, I mix Campho Pheni

quic in a spray bottle. This stops them from crossing the line. 7-Dust 50% mixed with Diatom. Earth kills them, also Borax. Both stop working after they get wet. Borax structure changes after it is dissolved and is good in the garden, DE, just stops once wet, it cakes up, it needs to be in the powder form to cut them. 7-dust, just kills...... May be the best. But they always comes back. Feeding them is a really really REALLY bad idea. When I hit them with all four, they disappear for a day, then they are back, in a week back full force. Good luck. I've tried those ant killers you push into the ground, supposed to be pet/animal safe. In a couple of days they are empty, still have the ants. Just not as bad, for a few days.

 

[countrygirl74]

BY THE WAY: I have a skin condition for about 7 or 8 years, I know what it is not, at first I went to 2 or 3 skin doctors a year, then gave up. Most of them told me not t o wash my hand but once a day.......

YA! Sure, I'm going to do that. I wore gloves to hind them at times when my hands wore raw flesh. I used that blue medicated spray on dove to see how often I caught them. I got it all over my hands. I have no sign of my skin condition. The can is clearly marked "not for human use". But it worked, no idea what it was in it, but now I can add not an allergy to the list of what it was not. But I think at the first sign of it coming back, I'm going to glue feathers on and start clucking.

I've heard it said Vets are better doctors the people doctors, maybe their arsenal is a little different.

Are you saying that Blukote helped your hands? That's too funny! Usually a skin condition is diet-related. Have you ever had allergy testing? Also, have you tried putting coconut oil on your hands daily - it's such a healing oil.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

 BY THE WAY: I have a skin condition for about 7 or 8 years, I know what it is not, at first I went to 2 or 3 skin doctors a year, then gave up. Most ..... ..........clearly marked "not for human use". But it worked, no idea what it was in it, but now I can add not an allergy to the list of what it was not. But I think at the first sign of it coming back, I'm going to glue feathers on and start clucking. I've heard it said Vets are better doctors the people doctors, maybe their arsenal is a little different.

Are you saying that Blukote helped your hands? That's too funny! Usually a skin condition is diet-related. Have you ever had allergy testing? Also, have you tried putting coconut oil on your hands daily - it's such a healing oil.

Yep! After about 4 years I gave up. I let the new doctor try about 3 different meds. Then moved on to the next. That worked about to anew doctor every 4 to 6 months, about 2.33 a year. Figured I had an allergy. I've used all the over counter stuff, coco butter, something that smiled bad my share after insurance $55.00 (20%), compounds made for me, a couple had creosote in it. I used bag balm, and other creams, several times a day. I render goose fat, tried that. some helped but I never had a day without a patch the size of a quarter some place on my hands/figures. When living on a boat they got pretty good, but not cured. I found only 1 hand soap that didn't make it worse.

I slept with night gloves. I was happy if I only had patches of white flaky skin coming off and a small painful exposed flesh no weeping blood from my skin cracking. When that happened I wrapped my hands. I learned to live with it, bathing my hands in lotions. I always had some patch on my hands or fingers...... Until I sprayed them Blukote. I did it on purpose a second and third time, as soom as it was all washed off. After the 3rd treatment it was gone and has not come back. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't? But it is gone, I still have slightly reddish area's were I wood have exposed flesh (top skin gone) foe weeks at a time. It is just a slight blush, no one can tell anything,