Arizona Chickens

[rockmissjess]

Love the pics. They are all so cute!

THANK YOU!!! we had alot of fun with them today outside.. spent from 10:45 this morning outside until around 5 lol

 

[City farm]

my polish hen and rooster

 

[City farm]

So glad you joined,
Shoot, we just gave away a silkie... . We will keep our ears & eyes open for you.. Someone else will probably chime in as to where to get some.. I read from the post from where I got done posting, sometimes I find that you will get the same answer more than once... Can't wait to see what you get...
We do both.. Fans & misters.. Tons of shade and ice.. Frozen treats wet the soil down

Awwwww! Hens are so tough to find. Especially older ones. I have 5 boys already so I can't do anymore Roos. Have them in their own coop. I'm in an HOA also and actually drove them to OK and had the crow reduction surgery done. It was successful on the two polish Roos. I can't really tell the difference with my EE and silkie boys though. I bring them in at night and try to have open communication with neighbors. Give them some eggs too.

Oh wow, how much did this cost? How long did it take for them to do the surgery.. More details please..

 

[City farm]

new pics taken today outside!!!! eeeeekkkk!!! so cute!!!!!

Great photos... Thank you for posting..

 

[LindaMurphy]

I am still looking for a female Buff Orpington duck. I got some magpies but I would like to give my drake a true mate. I'd rather not cross breed them. besides I don't know what I have yet but thinking they may be a pair. One keeps going after the others tail feathers ;-)

 

[kpgoldstar]

Cute pics Rockmissjess! When those girls get a little bigger they'll help you keep all that green grass in check!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I finally have a computer to work on. it is not an apple, but I am happy. You pay more fore apple because it is Apple. I have Windows 8,,,,, made a mistake in setting this up. frustrating. now I can not get to System Properties. I think I can fix it. I need yet to customize everything the way I like it. I figure about the time this Lap Top is at its lives end I will be used to it and like it. It dose have a touch screen, a little bridge to help me to adjust.

Have not had a nose bleed sense Fri evening, need to make it a week. Did get back to cleaning today, probably about 45 min. between 5 and 10 min. Tomorrow much more aggressive.

My girls are doing fine, but I am afraid for their health if I do not get out there and do some cleaning. If I do not have any nose bleeds by Friday I will get out there and start cleaning, I will use a mask for my health, with all the nose bleeds my nose may be compromised. If anyone has time next week to help me clean out my garage, the help would be appreciated. It will be some time before I have confidence in not getting a nose bleed again. I have also to get my shed cleaned out. So much to do. But right now it is my garage that is at the comes first.

It will take me some time to read throw more then a week of posts.

Also, I am looking for some one good in construction. Once I get my NEW Camper I can come to you. The project is a Coop on wheels. Not a standard tractor coop. It will be designed to 1) hold 6 standard chickens 2) fit on my truck bed, 3) be able to wheel it off the bed using a ramp, return to my truck bed with a wrench. 4) be able to close in all sides so when moving and going throw weather my girls will be save, and I can control the ventilation so that they will also be safe. 5) built in feeder and water.

I plan on using a pen found at a lot of pet stores. I will need to make a cover for it that I can put on it to protect my girls. When I start my travels I will be ta.king 4 of them with me. I will have to find homes for the rest. This will be very hard. It may turn out that I will have to raise my girls on the road for them to be happy with that kind of life. There is at lest 2 others that or doing it. One has a flock of 6 Buff Orrington's that free range when they park, always knows where they left their coop.

My goal is to maintain a max of 350 miles a day. Stopping every 3-4 hours to give them time to eat and drink.. Yes I will be keeping everyone posted on my travels and my Chickens. I will also have them on YouTube. If I get enough viewers I will get a check via PayPal from advertisers. They give and estimate of a min of a few dollars up to $100 a month. very few make more then $200.00 a month. that would really help with my travels. Of course I will be coming home ever so often. I am open for suggestion of what to call myself, or my little traveling chicken coop. OH, if anyone has any ideas as to a design, by all means send it to me. I am open to suggestions. this is a road lest traveled

 

[Demosthine]

Also, I am looking for some one good in construction. Once I get my NEW Camper I can come to you. The project is a Coop on wheels. Not a standard tractor coop. It will be designed to 1) hold 6 standard chickens 2) fit on my truck bed, 3) be able to wheel it off the bed using a ramp, return to my truck bed with a wrench. 4) be able to close in all sides so when moving and going throw weather my girls will be save, and I can control the ventilation so that they will also be safe. 5) built in feeder and water.

I plan on using a pen found at a lot of pet stores. I will need to make a cover for it that I can put on it to protect my girls. When I start my travels I will be ta.king 4 of them with me. I will have to find homes for the rest. This will be very hard. It may turn out that I will have to raise my girls on the road for them to be happy with that kind of life. There is at lest 2 others that or doing it. One has a flock of 6 Buff Orrington's that free range when they park, always knows where they left their coop.

When you are ready to start ideas, come on over and we'll get it started. I'm nice and handy with all that, plus I have the tools. It should be a pretty easy project. Give me a rough idea of what you have in mind, though, in terms of dimensions and designs so I can work up a couple of drawings. The logistics for what you requested is really easy. Rather than using a winch, though, I'd recommend a couple of pulleys with a hand crank. Cheaper, easier and maintenance free. It doesn't require an electrical connection or battery, either. Set up a pulley at the front of the bed and one on the coop. Secure the end of the rope at the bed's pulley and loop it through the pulley on the coop. The rope comes back forward, though the pulley and sideways to the edge of the bed. Another pulley is mounted there that will allow the rope to curve and travel along the bed, where the hand crank is mounted at the back corner. It allows you to be at the back of the truck guiding it up the ramps, while operating the crank at the same time. Both the corner pulley and the hand crank can be mounted to short boards that fit in to the pockets built in to the bed rails of virtually all trucks.. Think of it like a gambrel and pulley for hanging deer in the field when you dress them. This would actually be an excellent and inexpensive setup for what I'm talking about and it's only $12 at Harbor Freight. See the photo below. The hand crank should run you $25 or less. Also remember, you could have a stationary one on your truck like a sleeper shell would be and just add the covered ramp when you are parked. They can come and go as they please. We can make a collapsible tractor for them while they are out. If you use door hinges rather than traditional hinges, you can pull the pins out and easily separate the panels.

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Either way, like I said, it should be easy to do. Rather than having actual "sides" that you can close, it would be cheaper, easy and lighter to use a weather proof barbecue grill cover. For ventilation, you can cut several flaps in it that velcro or zip closed for really bad weather, but roll up to open in good weather, just like a standard tent would. The cover in the photo below even has built in vents on the top and has a chicken-coop shape to it. At $25, it's cheaper than a sheet of plywood, too. There are two quick and easy designs for feed and water. Use a 2 1/2 gallon bucket with a small hole drilled in it for air supply, and then run it down through some pipes to poultry nipples, just like I did in my brooder. That amount of water should easily last a week for your four chickens, would stay clean the entire time and not spill during travels. For the feed, we can build a cheap and easy feed hopper. It fills a 4" pipe from the top and has a bowl at the bottom that only allows a certain amount of food to come out based on how full the bowl is. You control the amount of feed in the bowl by raising or lowering the vertical hopper. If you use a clean-out cap at the top, a standard canning funnel from Ball will fit in the top of the pipe tightly and allow for an easier time filling it. I would assume you could go several days in between fills.

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Just a quick sketch I threw together, this could be mobile one that pulls out if we modify it slightly for the wheel wells, or the stationary one if we modify it for the ramp, but you'll get the point. The green line at the top left is the door that would open upwards and allow you access to the nesting box that is the square in the middle-left. It could also hing upwards at the bottom of the angled section to allow storage in that top section. The three round bars are roosts, nicely situated above the nesting box. The blue cylinder on the right is the bucket of water, with lines running down for two poultry nipples. The black cylinders make the feed hopper with the bowl at the bottom. The entire front, lower section could open upwards to allow easy cleaning.

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Hope that gives you some great ideas...

 

[keckhart]

City Farm - in regards to the crow reduction or "decrowing" just type those words in the search on the site. There is a vet in OK that has been trained how to do it with great success. He is a super nice guy and on BYC. He charges $150 I think.

 

[roostereggs]

Hi, neighbor!

I am also in STV, off of Gary. We don't have any Silkies yet but I will keep my eye out for them. If you get eggs, I can incubate them for you...just hatched 21/25 barnyard mixes for my neighbors starter flock. I *love* to incubate but can't keep everything that hatches.