Arizona Chickens

[Timskins]

What is CX stand for?

Cornish cross.

 

[City farm]

 
City farm, congratulations on the BYC Friend award!   You deserve it.  

Congratulations City Farm!!  Well done and done just right! 

Thank you.. All of us chicken lovers have a heart to help one another.. God gives us opportunity to help someone. We feel blessed to have
them.. I think when you start helping others you feel the love from it..

 

[svalleys]

I steamed some eggs for 20 minutes and then put them in ice water the other day, they peeled great!

 

[City farm]

Just curious if anyone in desert or high desert AZ keeps Silkies?

We have lots of plants and critters that wouldn't be hospitable to them, so I am curious if anyone has tried it and what you've done to protect them if you let them free range. Thanks!

When we let out our flock I stay with them.. I use a spray bottle when they get into the garden.. Our border collie love to wrangle up the little peeps.. The rooster gives everyone a head's up when something flys above.. Not that he would be able to protect if a hawk decided to swoop down. When he does his call for
"take cover" I look to see what type of bird.. So far no hawk's.. We have a ton of shade in the back.. Now when the sparrows come our BCM chases them off.
If you don't have time I would get a good dog. Also I here that crows are good at keeping preditors at bay.. Put out corn.. I will post up a list from another member..

 

[City farm]

Just curious if anyone in desert or high desert AZ keeps Silkies?

We have lots of plants and critters that wouldn't be hospitable to them, so I am curious if anyone has tried it and what you've done to protect them if you let them free range. Thanks!

Here is her list, hope this helps... I have not read it yet.. Been so busy getting ready for Easter dinner...

http://email.backyardchickens.com/w...yobJjn-2F-2BYypS-2FUm5GaS0iH0ETTRBHsA3nGeDfSH

Wow this link look wrong, I will post & then check it

 

[maryhysong]

Here is her list, hope this helps... I have not read it yet.. Been so busy getting ready for Easter dinner...

http://email.backyardchickens.com/w...yobJjn-2F-2BYypS-2FUm5GaS0iH0ETTRBHsA3nGeDfSH

Wow this link look wrong, I will post & then check it

the link looks crazy but came up just fine for me

 

[kpgoldstar]

I also steam my eggs. 15 minutes then cover with ice water. Peels off in 2 pieces, smooth as a baby's butt!

 

[maryhysong]

well things have been terribly crazy around here the last couple of months; my work was insane; 50=70 hours a week. finallly got some days off and have been working around the place a bit; some of it in my blog in my sig line.

Have somewhere around 80 chicks, have about 25 eggs due this weekend, another 20 due the following week and just set 29 for my friend due the end of the month. Tomorrow we will set about 20-25 at work (I work with people with disabilities and we are going to hatch chicks; have 15 of them already sold) then I AM DONE hatching! for spring! I really didn't want to be hatching this late, but with my work schedule I couldn't get some of my breeding pens set up.

Now to finish getting the garden situated so I have stuff to sell the first Sat of June when our farmer's market opens, build some more grow out pens and monitor all the chicks. Mid May I'll be picking up my LGD a Maremma pup from some folks down in Maricopa. So I'll be spending lot of time training and monitoring him with the chickens.whew. yes I"m crazy and I know it ;-)

cityfarm; poor Roger and little Princess were taken off by a predator. I have one pet quality silkie from them. I have two more from Roger and Bianca from an earlier hatch. Pretty sure that the three brown chicks in the new hatch were Roger's. I moved Bianca in with some other Silkies after I lost R&P so the other chicks are probably from the other boys.


Bianca set 9 eggs, one was clear. 7 hatched yesterday plus I gave her 6 Buff Orpingtons. The last egg still looks good but doesn't look like it's far enough along to hatch; I think someone else laid it and she stole it.

 

[wondertwinpower]

Does anyone know if boxes approved for shipping chickens can be re-used? Is that allowed by the post office? Also, to piggyback on Angelray's post, how would I look up the restrictions for shipping live chickens to other states, since NPIP certification is pretty much non-existent in AZ (I know some states require NPIP at a minimum, but I don't know which ones)?
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[a little chiken]

Here is a good place to start reading about adding new chickens to the flock.

Thank you so much Gallo del Cielo I will be trying this method.