Arizona Chickens

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: What are "scrub" cardinals? Tohwees?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yay...another 1st egg. From Onya my Russian Orloff! I'm super excited. Plan on cooping her with her beau, Buddy & trying to hatch some her eggs. I just need a broody....or a bator!





Finally getting a few eggs everyday! Polish gal still not laying, but I have a RIR, EE, my golden lake elder & now the orloff! Only....10 girls to go, but one is WAY to young & could even be a cockerel sultan. Its hard to tell(for me always).

A sultan will have feathered feet and five toes

 

[notinoz2007]

finally caught up on 100+ pages, i seem to have an awful habit of that lately, i dont like being so far behind.
it was great to see posts from Mahonri!! and MikeyD and that TT was around thats just awesome. now we just need to hear from laree, lol. welcome all the new posters, and the new chicks! condolences to all who lost flocks to predators, i dread the day...

i am hatching some blrws for my mom - was trying to hatch silver laced brahma over light brahma - but none were fertile

I will be looking for silver laced wyandott and light or dark brahma chicks in the next few days. if anyone has any, or knows where i can get some please let me know.

 

[notinoz2007]

city farm - i sent you a pm with pictures of the boys.

 

[MagicChicken]

Quote: What are "scrub" cardinals? Tohwees?

I was guessing pyrrhuloxias...

 

[roostereggs]

Wow...those love birds are beautiful!

Were those someones pets that got loose, or are they naturally here in AZ?

 

[Angelray]

A sultan will have feathered feet and five toes

'She' does...but is showing a lot of red around the face & even has some bumps where the V comb is on males??? I will wait to see. This is my 2nd Sultan. The 1st was a rooster so I returned him to the breeder for her program & a few months later she called to offer me a replacement chick that she felt was a hen (smaller & much less red faced). I guess only time will tell. It stands with its tail like a roo!

 

[Demosthine]

Doesn't look at all like an Old English--not sure what it is; type is WAY off, and it would be dubbed if OE--but I do agree on silver duckwing.

Looking up the Old English, there are so many color variations and options. I agree, traditionally, they are dubbed if kept to standards, but the original poster to the Breeds section appears to have little to no true knowledge of his chicken. Knowing that, they'd probably not even know about dubbing or standards. It does appear to have the medium/high posture with the standard 45* angle to it, a single comb, large beak and extravagant plumage. The plumage was what initially led me towards the Old English. The Game Fowl is supposed to have black legs, while the Jungle Fowl has blue/green legs. But since the photo shows yellow legs, that led me to the conclusion it was at also a mixed breed. I was referencing Cackle Hatchery and Stromberg's when I came to the more specific Silver Duckwing Old English strain, clearly indicated by the long silver/white saddle and hackles, plus the coloring of the wings.

Just thought I'd give my line of reasoning. I could very well be wrong, but we'll never truly know what he is anyway.

 

[pipemum]

All right you convinced me, I will give it a try with my broilers first.

On another note I have joined the first egg club. Dont know who laid it but it wasnt there this morning, but when I went to check on them this afternoon there it was sitting on the floor of the run. Apparently the golf balls in the nesting boxes weren't obvious enough for them. It was pretty cool seeing that first egg ever.

Congrats on the first egg.

FF for the broilers really isn't too time consuming. I feed 2x a day, and sometimes the second serving isn't till dark since I get home so late. I just scoop and run. Of course, I only have 15 broilers at a time. Small numbers seem more manageable for everything.

I do FF for my layers too, but they do have access to dry food always as well.

I am going out of town for a few days this weekend, so it will be 3-4 days of dry food for broilers and layers alike. Someone gave me a bunch of pumpkins, so I think I'll crack a couple open in both the layer run and meatie pen and let them work on the pumpkins while I'm gone.

 

[pipemum]

I have the one hen raising chicks--the chicks are 3 weeks old now, and at some point, the hen will have to go back into the layer flock. I've already noticed that she's the low girl on the pecking pole now. When she's back in the flock fulltime, do I leave her to work it out with the other hens? Anything I have to do to reintegrate her? The broody and the layers interact when they are ranging around the yard, so it's not like they are isolated from each other...and they can see each other from the layer run to meatie pen.

The broody was trying to lead her chicks up the ramp into the layer coop, and the layers were kinda nasty to her. That's about when I started to wonder if there were going to be problems with throwing her back in the regular run. I only have 6 layers, total.

I asked if anyone had any fertile eggs, and was offered some, but have to decline due to timing. By the time I can pick eggs up, the other broody will be ready for chicks. I think I'll pick a couple chicks up from the feed store at the end of the month. Not sure what to do with the chicks when they've grown...either dinner or give away. Wish I had the space to keep a roo and just let the chickens do their thing. I'd have a big ole' flock of dual-purpose birds. Plenty of meat, and plenty of eggs...though, dang, at 6 birds I already have plenty of eggs!