Arizona Chickens

[Chicken Feat]

WoW!!!! A Barnevelder! I've never heard of that breed let alone pronounce Barnevelder, and after a little research I belive you are correct! She's very glossy and lays medium light brown eggs and I've found tons of photos just like her. Thanks so much!

Ya learn something everyday.

Lucy is a different story. I think she's too big and too feathered to have silkie in her. She's not furry in any way like a silkie and she acts like and hangs with the other Polish. Whatever she is she's a nice chicken, quiet, calm, and a little dittzie like a polish. She reminds us of Lucille Ball with that red top.

This site is great.

Lucy looks a lot like my full polish hen, Calico. She is a buff laced polish in my opinion. Here's a couple pix of my girl.

 
You are probably right about Lucy being a cross. Not a Barnvelder as some one stated due to the Rose comb but I sure like that way she looks. Please let us know what her eggs look like ?

I suggested Barnvelder because her wattles were very small and so I assumed from the picture angle that her comb just wasn't developed yet. If she has a rose comb then I take back my Barnvelder suggestion. 

Angelray- Lucy could be a sister to your hen. Except for coloring (Lucy looks a bit more red) they are very similar. Thanks for clearing it up for me.

Twinklin - Squawk is almost a year old and lays medium sized light brown eggs. Her wattles are very small and her comb looks like a Pea comb found here...
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res11-combs.html

She looks more like a Barnevelder than any Wyandotte photo that I've found. She's a good layer and makes a ruckus when anyone leaves an egg in any of the 3 boxes I have for them. She's aggressive and a bully when it comes to food and who she sleeps beside. She also has me very well trained- she lets me know when it's time to eat or leave the run and scratch around the yard. She's the loudest hen we have but not the boss, that title goes to the smallest silkie, Omelet, she rules.

Thanks all for the info.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Does the White Album ever get old? I think not.

 

[Chicken Feat]

Does the White Album ever get old? I think not.

Never.

One of the best ever

We get old but their music is still fresh

 

[Twinklin]

Went to the state fair. I was like a giddy little kid in a candy store walking through the chickens. Soooo many beautiful birds. We were cracking up every time a little bantam rooster would crow. They're so stinkin cute. Makes it even harder to decide what type of birds I want to get this spring.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I put two Rubbermaid containers in the ground to compost in. I drilled holes in the bottom for drainage. It works great and I can keep it moist easier than when I used above ground containers.

Does anybody else NOT ferment feed? I tried it and really didn't like it (and neither did my girls), but whenever it is brought up I feel like I am missing the party, lol! Everybody seems to love it.

I don't, and have no plans to.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: It is so hard to do that. Our neighbors A few doors down have chickens.
Plus I am always going to my dearsest friends house.. I have to say I do have
chicken shoes just for our run.. Not for bio security, just for bio poo...

How about these for your newest chicken shoes?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Hilarious! And just a little bit creepy.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

Hilarious! And just a little bit creepy.

A "LITTLE BIT"?

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

My husband's favorite chicken is not doing well. She is lethargic and not eating much...losing weight. The last time this happened to another chicken the chicken had eaten a screw that had punctured it's intestine. I've checked her all over and can't find anything wrong other than her weight is way down and her comb is limp.
She wouldn't eat egg or yogurt but ate a couple of grubs when I found them for her. I'm off to the store to get meal worms but I don't have much hope for her. She is a 3 year old leghorn that use to follow my husband around all the time. We use to have a mealworm colony but the ants got it. I get so tired of the ants!

 

[Mikey D]

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Other suggestions online include boric acid, DE, boiling water, orange oil. The ants in the wash, I'm going to treat with boiling water. Apparently Texas has a big problem with leaf cutters, with huge colonies--the area they excavate to for their fungi garden can be huge enough where a collapse can cause cracks in house foundations, livestock can fall in, etc. I'm going to use Amdro Block on the outside of my fence line, and with my neighbor's okay, along his wall too. Next spring when they start to emerge, I'm going to have less hand-wringing and more action right away.

Just imagine the volume of space they must excavate! I saw colonies of leaf cutters in Central and South America that had sand mounds larger than my house, no kidding. I'm going out right now to hit them with Orange Guard.
have you seen the castings made by pouring molten aluminum down an ant hole? Quite incredible - a little rough on the ants though...

Check it out:

Ant hill castings

Yes I am done with my foundry (except for little tune ups) and as soon as the list clears up a bit - this is going on it.