Arizona Chickens

[a little chiken]

These will have to do until I take some more pics and download them from my camera. My phone pics are TERRIBLE!

how eggciting. they look so adorable

 

[a little chiken]

I saw this and thought it was too good not to share. (and boy is it true!!!!!!!!!!!)



and ODD (Obsessive Duck Disorder) I have both!!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

You are so right! I am going on the road with about 6-8 chicks, selecting 3 that are the best on the road... What are the odds that I will end up with only three? I am really going to try, but I do have OCD.

 

[Sill]

Demosthine and LadyKotaDoria thanks for the meal worm culture and extra bedding! They are tucked in next to my red worm bin on the patio. I'm sure the chickens will enjoy them.

 

[AZ Turkeys]

TSC is just the Wal Mart of the "country rural lifestyle". They are opening 12 stores in AZ this year. As to poultry equipment, not anything extraordinary. The feeders and waterers all come from China. The plastic feeders and waterers are junk. Bottoms and tops don't line up easily and the ears break off the waterers pretty fast in our sun, dumping the water all over you. The galvanized stuff is way over priced, and from China, and often slightly bent as they come in boxes of 12 stacked high and squished in pallets. Most of what they offer bird wise is schlock. Treats, cheap plywood nest boxes, cheaply made hutches for one to four birds etc. As to buying birds there? Only as a last resort. All hatchery shipped. No local sourcing. No local input, and from what I have seen in a few stores in North Central AZ, no local knowledge either. Not really farmers of any kind. Just a bunch of folks who needed a job and maybe grew up on a farm somewhere else.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

TSC is just the Wal Mart of the "country rural lifestyle". They are opening 12 stores in AZ this year. As to poultry equipment, not anything extraordinary. The feeders and waterers all come from China. The plastic feeders and waterers are junk. Bottoms and tops don't line up easily and the ears break off the waterers pretty fast in our sun, dumping the water all over you. The galvanized stuff is way over priced, and from China, and often slightly bent as they come in boxes of 12 stacked high and squished in pallets. Most of what they offer bird wise is schlock. Treats, cheap plywood nest boxes, cheaply made hutches for one to four birds etc. As to buying birds there? Only as a last resort. All hatchery shipped. No local sourcing. No local input, and from what I have seen in a few stores in North Central AZ, no local knowledge either. Not really farmers of any kind. Just a bunch of folks who needed a job and maybe grew up on a farm somewhere else.

Well, they carry pretty much the same supplies that the local feed stores carry, and similar feed brands. Quite frankly, I don't know any local stores that carry locally manufactured, or even strictly US manufactured supplies, and also none whose major chick sources are not out of state hatcheries. TSC and Shoppers (similar type of store) purchase in larger volume, so prices are lower. You will have to decide for yourself if that is a plus or negative.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I am having a garage/moving sale will be May 9-11th, my girls need to be adopted out by the 15th. The only chickens I will have will be 2 chicks from my March 13th hatch, Mary and some of her chicks, and maybe not Mary.

I just have a little to put in the sale. My daughter is coming over to help me to sort and price the STUF. I have more to add but running out of room. Between headaches and bloody noses it seems to be getting done. Somehow I think the headaches are do to the mess. This coming week I will be moving STUF I am keeping to my storage unit, that will go a long way to sorting out my confused mind.

 

[AZ Turkeys]

Well, they carry pretty much the same supplies that the local feed stores carry, and similar feed brands. Quite frankly, I don't know any local stores that carry locally manufactured, or even strictly US manufactured supplies, and also none whose major chick sources are not out of state hatcheries. TSC and Shoppers (similar type of store) purchase in larger volume, so prices are lower. You will have to decide for yourself if that is a plus or negative.

Sonoran, You are correct. I was simply pointing out that TSC isn't going to really change the landscape much for us poultry folks, just bring more competition to locally owned feed stores. As to chicks, most of AZ and NM use Privett in NM as I don't believe AZ has a large scale hatchery. I do know quite a few folks who hatch on consignment or smaller batches but not as a hatchery per se.

Prices may be lower on some things because TSC can buy in volume. For some folks, Tractor Supply may be just the hens' bonnet For other folks, it won't be much. Just an observation with the new stores up here.

 

[City farm]

New to Tucson. Had chickens in Oregon, but left them behind with the new owners. (Chickens are hot in Portland!) Our new home came with a large coop that's well fortified, but no chickens. So sad. My previous flock were lap chickens and I miss them!
If anyone needs to rehome some laying hens, please let me know. Thanks!

So glad you have joined in..

We will know by tomorrow if we still have a handful of laying hens.. Another friend wants some & since we have new babies we have extra..
Are you willing to drive here?

 

[City farm]

New to Tucson. Had chickens in Oregon, but left them behind with the new owners. (Chickens are hot in Portland!) Our new home came with a large coop that's well fortified, but no chickens. So sad. My previous flock were lap chickens and I miss them!
If anyone needs to rehome some laying hens, please let me know. Thanks!

I am in Peoria, it is over 45 minutes from Chandler (first Phoenix city) to me. I need to re home every one. Black China, a Silkie, and Mary, a Buff Orpington are spoken for. I have posted picks a few days ago. The only one that will be hard for me I'd Lucy, RIR, she is a little over two. She knows her name and the word "out". She wants to check out the dog dish, so will try to get in if she can. All are good layers.

Rosa, has possibility of becoming a lap chicken even at her age (almost a year) I have not had time in the last 7 months to be with them as I would have liked.

I have 4 chicks that hatched the day my mother died, March 13. I will be keeping 2 of them. The roster was a Marrans. The 3 are from blue eggs and 1 from a chocolate brown egg. I have a new hatch to day. Do not know how many there will be, but right now 4, 2 are Naked Necks. I will be keeping them. But the rest have to go. I need all chickens (except the ones I am keeping) re-homed by May 14. I am hoping between the 7th and 14. I will miss them.

If anyone is interested please let me know, ASAP.

this was taken about 7 PM. I will check again to night before I go to bed. 1 yellow and 1 gray are the NN. There is a good chance the Late Angle was the rooster. If one or both are pullets and the eggs are a shad darker then the odds are very good.

Who layer the dark egg?