Arizona Chickens

[LadyKotaDoria]

I wish to publicly a sure any one coming to my home, that. I will be first thing tomorrow morning making an appointment, an emergency appointment to be checked out for worms, parasites, lice, ticks and any other Possable contamination. My Sister and Nephew are worried that I have one or more parasites. My nephew sanitizes the house and kitchen after I have been there do to there loving concern.

:/ I have chickens, chickens have deceases, parasites, bacteria, and other unclean stuff, I do not ware shoes in my house, and sometimes my girls try to get in, therefore I contract these things thru my feet. Furthermore, if you wish not to come I understand. After all, no one will come into a house that a chicken has been in........ It is just not civilized, sanitary, and a thing any normal person would allow. But if you are willing to risk your health and that of family members, knowing a head of time that I have chickens, that I actually handle, I am so looking forward to this week end.


If it will make you feel safer I will pick up cans of disinfectants, masked, and a box of latex gloves, you will have to being your own hazmat suits

Umm, maybe it's just me, but that sounds like the post of a raving mad hypochondriac. Every one of those are regular problems that humans encounter, too. It is by no means a chicken thing. Dogs experience all of those, often to a far worse degree than chickens, and all the cats I've been around have been the nastiest of them all, by far!

I do sense a bit of sarcasm out of you, but your nephew and sister need a reality check, if you don't mind me saying. He is doing his family a major disservice by hypersanitizing everything. These are the types of people that will die first in the event of a real pandemic...

Now back to our regularly scheduled program...

That is true, that is why when my sisters kids had their hand sanitized after petting the dogs. She is afraid of what my company would think if they know...... I guess I'm dirty in her eyes.

I really dislike going over there, I often feel not ok. Then I wonder.. . . . I get confused. I have been isolated since 1987 with 3 years during that time I was not isolated. Only my close family . . . My sister, nephew.. . . . . . . .

 

[FeatherPugs]

Okay - so they are probably sick more often than not too.....hummmm........changing channels while petting the dog - same hand even! Gotta have 'em cause they make the world round and not square! LOL

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

See post below. An OOPS POST

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I had soom yogurt that was getting old, so I shared it with my girls. These are my youngest pullets

It is hard to see but all the girls have white beaks, it is so cute, they really in joy it.

I've made my own cottage cheese before, it is not as good with store milk, but it can be done, I would like to try my own yogurt. Doses anyone know off hand where I could get a culture, other then on line. I have had home made before and I liked it.

Beer and wine is a little more ambitious for me. I used to help a neighbor make wine. He had a press that belonged to his parents, it pressed a lot of grapes, and other stuff. I never got to try the Dandelion wine. I moved a way before it was finished. The Apricot a wine was very good, despite a small explosion. Something dealing with corking it, or with the corks. When on vacation, I would turn the bottles for them. It was very interesting.

I've never had home brewed beer. I do not like bud, Millers and other water beers, I call them. I used to love stouts and dark Al, but my tastes, I guess have changed, I now prefer the softer flavors. Beer & fried chicken, beer, kraut & Brats..... I better stop I'm starting to salivate.

Oh, just wanted to mention, I hope to have some peeps on the 31st, they are do to hatch. About half were ether not fertile or quit. The post office was a little ruff with 2 boxes when I picked them up. HE said, there is no way for him to know what is in side. Ya, I believe that. On each side, including top and bottom " Fragile fertile eggs". On all 3 boxes. Only one person could read at my post office. I hope there will be at lest 1 peep.

 

[bcluff]

I started some sweet corn and bush cucumber!! Anyone have some tips to keeping my corn from the birds let me know.... It seems that wild birds come pluck them out when they are smaller

 

[belmontyhen]

I had soom yogurt that was getting old, so I shared it with my girls. These are my youngest pullets

It is hard to see but all the girls have white beaks, it is so cute, they really in joy it.

I've made my own cottage cheese before, it is not as good with store milk, but it can be done, I would like to try my own yogurt. Doses anyone know off hand where I could get a culture, other then on line. I have had home made before and I liked it.

Beer and wine is a little more ambitious for me. I used to help a neighbor make wine. He had a press that belonged to his parents, it pressed a lot of grapes, and other stuff. I never got to try the Dandelion wine. I moved a way before it was finished. The Apricot a wine was very good, despite a small explosion. Something dealing with corking it, or with the corks. When on vacation, I would turn the bottles for them. It was very interesting.

I've never had home brewed beer. I do not like bud, Millers and other water beers, I call them. I used to love stouts and dark Al, but my tastes, I guess have changed, I now prefer the softer flavors. Beer & fried chicken, beer, kraut & Brats..... I better stop I'm starting to salivate.

Oh, just wanted to mention, I hope to have some peeps on the 31st, they are do to hatch. About half were ether not fertile or quit. The post office was a little ruff with 2 boxes when I picked them up. HE said, there is no way for him to know what is in side. Ya, I believe that. On each side, including top and bottom " Fragile fertile eggs". On all 3 boxes. Only one person could read at my post office. I hope there will be at lest 1 peep.

 

[MagicChicken]

I started some sweet corn and bush cucumber!! Anyone have some tips to keeping my corn from the birds let me know.... It seems that wild birds come pluck them out when they are smaller

If your garden is relatively small you can put chicken wire or hardware cloth cages over the seedlings to protect them. For rows of seedlings I make tunnels of chicken wire, but you have to make sure you box in the ends. Pull up the chicken wire when the seedlings start to poke out the top. In between seasons I stash all the tunnels and cages in a corner by the shed, so I can reuse them next time.

If you have a big garden I'd try bird netting over the whole thing, but you'll have to figure out how to support it.

1" mesh should keep most birds out. 1/2" mesh should keep them all out but it is probably overkill. I have a problem with spiny lizards getting their heads caught in 1" chicken wire, so I tend to go for smaller mesh openings to avoid the lizard massacre.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Holy cow, those prices! That better make at least a full case of twelve every time. And even then it's high. Estimating it out based on quantity of the items used and what I bought of the yeast, nutrient, acid blend and pectin enzyme, I'm looking at about $2 per bottle on a conservative level.

30 bottles. They range from about $80 to $170 depending on what you want. Even at the high $ range, that's less than $6/bottle. So, it's really not too pricey.

 

[MaddBaggins]

I started some sweet corn and bush cucumber!! Anyone have some tips to keeping my corn from the birds let me know.... It seems that wild birds come pluck them out when they are smaller

If you have a way to hang a bunch of old cd's/dvd's. They flash in the light and scare the birds. It's best if they are on a string so they move around.

 

[Phottoman]

One of my Buff girls has taken to roosting outside the coop at night. She gets up onto the high roost in the run, just under roof and spends her night there. She's been doing that for the last few weeks.
I've been watching all the girls, she's not an outsider or low on the pecking order. I think she just likes it better.

I read this and laughed. I have several things going on with my girls. The one surviving RIR insists on staying most nights (and I mean MOST, not all) nights in the younger birds run. The 'young' birds are almost 6 months old, she just sits on a low roost by the run door, three nights out of four, then I'll find her in the coop with her older siblings for a night, then back to the younger girls run.

And the two older leghorns (and now the new rooster too) seem to want to stay out of the coop at night, sleeping instead on one of the roosts but under the roof. It seems they only go into the coop to lay an occasional egg. And I know which eggs are theirs, because they are the only white eggs I get. And the RIR is a cross bird, she gives me those beautiful green eggs.

I have been getting a huge amount of those baby or 'starter' eggs from the new girls, but yesterday I got a good spread of eight eggs (from 21 girls) all different colors and sizes, but all are sellable larger eggs. Production is finally starting to increase.

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