Arizona Chickens

[LadyKotaDoria]

@LadyKotaDoria Thank you for your video...I love how that chicken just decides to hop off and on the camera.

I just lost my first chick and I *really* needed a LOL first thing today!

Our first flock is older and not very friendly...one of the reasons I incubated...so they would be used to us caring for them. If they are hatched under a broody, are they too skittish to pick up?

LOL. I erased the first 3. Clare was hogging the camera. And would not stay off the camera. The 4th one I gave up. Arrest on the camera he was not popping his head in all the time.

 

[jubilation]

I'm strickly a buff gal. Love the personality and since we are not raising for meat but eggs, the buffs seem to produce really good. Need more hens since I have quite a few people wanting my eggs, not only in my area but at my church so I'm not able to keep up with the demand. There's a local discount grocers here that buys home grown, home raised eggs, vegetables, etc. and they are wanting more eggs, especially during the winter. Lots of chickens up here quit laying in the cold months but the buffs don't. My buffs lay medium to jumbo sized eggs so looking for the larger birds for the bigger eggs.

 

[Timskins]

Well you kind of said it yourself above. They are home breeders, not necessarily a business. Most home breeders are like myself, doing everything, no employees. Chicks and birds sold are generally excess or extras hatched to help pay expenses, but not in business to make money. More a hobby. That said, I always get back to people promptly, especially if it is email.

I emailed you over a week ago about ordering turkeys and never heard back......

 

[ChickTucson]

Hi,

I'm Liz. I live in Tucson. My fiance and I have 11 hens and a pheasant we rescued just yesterday from the road. He's been hit by a car, but he seems to be better today. Trying to find his real owner.

If you live in Tucson and you're missing your pretty pheasant, reply to me!

Much Love!

Liz

 

[desertmarcy]

I emailed you over a week ago about ordering turkeys and never heard back......

Well I never got an email, or I would have answered you. If it went to spam, I don't check that regularly. Did you send regular email via my website or other? I have two email addresses and would sure like to know if the one from my website is not working for some reason. Message me through BYC, that way I know it won't get lost.

I think in this day and age of instant messaging, text messaging, emails, etc etc, the personal touch gets lost. I much prefer when someone phones me to ask or talk about birds. Messages get lost in cyberspace, even phone messages get lost. I always try at least twice when I want to get ahold of someone since so many times someone has told me they did not get the first message.

Some of my turkeys are starting to lay now

 

[ChickTucson]

That is very exciting! Congratulations on your Turkeys laying.

I have a friend in Tucson, who successfully raises her Turkey hen with her chicken hens. Do you recommend that?

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I have gone back to doing more research on small breed cows. Apparently, there popularity is growing do to mini-farms and self reliance movement. They are 36" to 47" high, there is even high butter fat Jersey, and marble meat Angus. They are breed for grass feeding. I find it exciting. Everything I have read says they are more efficient to feed.
Jersey
Hereford
Lowline Angus

It is primarily down beeding.

A great link
http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...-breed-milk-cows.aspx?PageId=2#ArticleContent

http://www.bigpictureagriculture.com/2011/10/ten-miniature-cattle-breeds-for-your.html

 

[desertmarcy]

That is very exciting! Congratulations on your Turkeys laying.

I have a friend in Tucson, who successfully raises her Turkey hen with her chicken hens. Do you recommend that?

Some people do have success doing that, I have a friend who has two turkey hens with her chickens. BUT, turkeys sometimes decide they do not like a particular bird, especially roosters, and will kill them. Also, I know some other people who raise a lot of birds and tried putting their turkeys in with the chickens. They had turkey eggs, but no chicken eggs...finally, they watched and waited, and as soon as the chickens would lay, the turkeys would go over and eat their eggs. They would not eat their OWN eggs, but chicken eggs were fair game! In areas of the country where blackhead disease is a problem, you cannot keep the two types of fowl together since the chickens can carry blackhead, but the turkeys will die from it. Personally I keep mine separate. No extra problems that way.

 

[mckenzy]

Thanks so much LadyKotaDoria for the adopted addition to my backyard flock!

She's adorable. And should be laying soonish...

Any tips on trimming back a slight cross beak, anyone?

 

[Demosthine]

That is very exciting!  Congratulations on your Turkeys laying.  

I have a friend in Tucson, who successfully raises her Turkey hen with her chicken hens.  Do you recommend that?  

We've been raiding three turkeys along with our chickens and rabbits without any type of problems. They all free ranging in a yard about 5,000 square feet in size and sometimes share the coop. The turkeys have always preferred the open air as opposed to the coop, though.


Speaking of rabbits, our four babies decided to flee the brooder while we were at work. The doe that attacked them last time is behaving themselves. Guess they were reading to run free, too!