Arizona Chickens

[MagicChicken]

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Mycoplasma gallisepticum is extremely common here. The severity of the infection will depend on your birds' breeding. If bred for resistance the birds may get a minor sniffle or two, like a mild cold, and then they are done with it. If the birds are not resistant Mycoplasma can be brutal. My goal for breeding is to build resistance to all the local stuff.

Mycoplasma hit my flock last summer when the humidity kicked in. Most of them only got minor sniffles. One got rattly lungs. I culled him. Now the humidity has begun to kick in again. The birds that hatched this year are starting to sneeze once in a while. If any get really sick I will cull them, but I expect them to be as resistant as their parents were.

Resistance to local diseases is one more reason to buy from a good local breeder.

 

[a little chiken]

so my hubby saw a snake in my ameraucana coop last night. YIKES!!! He searched and searched but it took off so guess I will be out tonight when it cools down to see if it is back. I hope I catch him and can relocate him across the road if it is not a rattler..

sry I wont re locate rattle snakes.


Ok I really really want to feed non GMO feeds but we cannot afford that much per bag. It is crazy like $31-38 per bag at my feed store. I feed 2 50# bags of feed a week. We also feed our goats, guinea pigs, rescued dogs, cats and rabbit. I would be interested in going in with a couple of ppl and buying some organic feed. We plan on eventually doing fodder along with our FF but we need to finish the area first. They just laid off 27 ppl at my husbands work. He was lucky but they still have not hired him on perm so although we are thankful we must wait a few more months to finish things we have planned. I hope to be GMO free chicken raiser soon. Do they eat any less of it?

 

[carnivore]

You will find that cost prohibitive unless you order a full pallet of 50 bags.

Just got an email from someone named Craig at Modesto Milling. Said flat rate of $140 and change per pallet, but I could mix different types of feed on same pallet up to a max of 50 bags per pallet, so I don't have to buy full pallets of one type of feed. Will buy at OK Feeds until my new digs are sorted out.

 

[desertmarcy]

Just got an email from someone named Craig at Modesto Milling. Said flat rate of $140 and change per pallet, but I could mix different types of feed on same pallet up to a max of 50 bags per pallet, so I don't have to buy full pallets of one type of feed. Will buy at OK Feeds until my new digs are sorted out.

Chris is their sales/buyer person. I've talked with him several times. Yes, you can mix and match on a pallet. That is what I usually do. I used to split orders with people, but then my bird numbers increased so much, I was using up a full pallet by myself in 2-3 months. And it is such a pain to have that big freight truck up my driveway, especially if timing is off and it has rained recently. If the ground is wet, the truck leaves all kinds of ruts and I worry it might break one of my PVC water lines that are not that deep. That happened once with a delivery truck, for something else, not feed. I try to order around the rainy season, but hard to not need an order at least once during July-Aug.

They sent a smaller truck one time and I thought GREAT! But then they wouldn't do it again, saying it was too much weight for it.

If it is easier for you to have a delivery truck out at your place, I bet you can find enough people to split an order. You don't want to have old feed and it is most economical to buy the max of 50 bags on a pallet. It would be great if someone else was buying in volume from them (besides the feed stores). That way if one of us miscalculates on feed, we could "borrow" from each other. I am currently buying 4 types of poultry feed from them: corn & soy free layer pullets and starter crumble, soy-free finisher pellets, and turkey starter. I've asked Chris a few times about them making a game bird pellet---like a 20% or more pellet. I don't think they will, they already have a pretty large product line.
I think the true game bird feed has to have animal protein in it. They don't use any animal protein.

 

[Mikokoke]

Sorry to hear that, I have a list of questions see if will help reasoning.
* was she behaving abnormally recently?
* what time did you see her last night? Any sign of stress? Somehow my yard was incredibly hot last night.
* any bite mark? Any insects issues, ants, scorpions?
* have you sprayed weed killer or any other chemicals recently?
* how are other girls?

 

[City farm]

@CityFarm Thankx
I have coocoo ? Marans, blue splash marans, ameraucana, barred rocks, copper marans, rhode island reds.
I love them all but the blue splash and rhodes are the friendliest and let us pet them like crazy.

I hope to hatch more blue splash and americaunas

We got a rhode island from a friend for free.. She is one of my favorite's.. What color egg do the blue splash lay?

 

[Mikokoke]

In the afternoon, she was in the nesting box and when I checked again, there was no egg and no chicken.
The last I saw her was around 2:45pm in the box. I did not notice that she was acting any differently.
Didn't notice any bite marks or any scorpions around.
We don't use any weed killer and my husband uses a Bayer bug killer that he sprayed 2 weeks ago around the house. The chickens have been at the new house for a week.
The other girls appear fine. Yesterday we had a four day egg day and before a 7 day. They seem to alternate from day to day how many eggs they have.

 

[Mikokoke]

Sorry this happened. How old was it? Are you thinking a neighbor poisoned it or ? Is your neighbor capable of getting to your chickens?

 

[Mikokoke]

I don't want to assume anything about my neighbors, but there is access to the coop since our yard is not yet fenced/walled.

 

[Mikokoke]

Sorry this happened. How old was it? Are you thinking a neighbor poisoned it or ? Is your neighbor capable of getting to your chickens?