Arizona Chickens

[keckhart]

Awesome roostereggs!!! I may just take you up on that!! How soon do you have to get them into the incubator? I have two silkie Roos and two silkie hens.

 

[mckenzy]

Thanks for all the tips! Still no egg laying from the PBR but maybe she's a little broody right now... (She's doing a lot of puffy sitting around the yard)

The not sleeping in the coup is still annoying me. The coup is clean and there are no signs of anything strange going on in there... I'm going to try moving it!

 

[Stynch]

In about a month or so (after I can finally walk again.......), I am going to be looking to add a couple of pullets to my little flock. I don't have the setup nor the patience to raise them from peeps! If anyone, especially in the West Valley, has a couple of nice pullets that will be in the 5-8+ month-old range, please let me know. I am not particular about breed or egg color, as long as they would be expected to lay a decent number of decent sized eggs!!

 

[Timskins]

I have some broilers for sale.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/867189/broilers-for-sale

 

[maryhysong]

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

Oh good there you are! Was worried about you there for a bit; hope things are better; I am hoping to be down on Sat; have to go to Scottsdale in the AM to pick up a coop, might be able to make it to your place afterwards to pick up the silkie girl; PM please.

sounds like fun for the birds; new bugs every day ;-)

 

[roostereggs]

Awesome roostereggs!!! I may just take you up on that!! How soon do you have to get them into the incubator? I have two silkie Roos and two silkie hens.

The fresher the better, but I have heard up to 10-12 days old will hatch. I try to use eggs no older than a week and stored with pointy ends down in the coolest, darkest room we have where they won't get jostled. How often are your hens laying?

 

[keckhart]

They lay daily actually. They just started laying in the last month. I'd say the girls are about 7 mos old now. None have any inclination to sit on them as of yet anyway

 

[rockmissjess]

YOU GUYS HAVE TO HEAR THIS.... LOL *laughing rooster*

 

[Demosthine]

Ok, hopefully I concrete upset anybody, but here goes. We are doing a huge yardsale all day Friday through Sunday. We have to get rid of tons. Bicycles, tools, furniture, automotive, housewares, toys, baby stuff, you name it. Everything but chickens... Stop on by if you're in the Northwest Valley. 10842 West Lone Cactus Drive, Sun City.

Have a great day, ya'll.

 

[jubilation]

I have come to the absolute conclusion that I have a cockerel in my batch of chicks. All the signs are there, a little larger than the others, aggressive, doesn't want to be friendly, jumps at the others and puts his feet on their backs, no tail and comb is more developed than the others. That being said, does anyone want a Buff Orpington cockerel? He's 4 weeks old today. I just don't want to hassle with another rooster. Some of my girls are missing all their feathers on their backs from the last rooster I had. So I have some bare backed chickens. Don't intend to raise any more but if I do decide to do that in the future I would purchase an SOP Buff Orpington cockerel. Don't want to water down any more than the buffs are so would want to introduce a SOP Buff for bigger and more closely related to the original buff standards.