Arizona Chickens

[flower]

CITY FARM and anyone with Mullberry seedings................I sure would like some seedings my one tree is small and I do not know the gender so maybe I need more trees ????

I would like to visit down in the Valley as I do have some business to attend to.

 

[carnivore]

Oh how cool, post photos of it.. That would be so awesome to do..

OK, here is a pic I snapped this morning of the mysterious "oak of the black acorn". I may have under exaggerated it a bit, when I measured it this morning, it is 23" tall. Methinks it's time for a bigger pot!

 

[carnivore]

Great, can't wait to see it done or even the process, what about that women??

Ok here is a pic of the half done haybarn floor...

 

[desertmarcy]

If anybody is considering a mulberry to grow because they want the fruit, I would highly suggest getting a known female tree from a nursery, a variety that has been breed for fruit. There are places that sell them mail order as dormant, bare root. You have to order at the right time, which of course now is not. I got mine from Burnt Ridge Nursery, I think they are in Oregon, they have several varieties. I don't know how you get any fruit from a tree, the wild birds would clean me out if the tree wasn't in my covered garden, but the tree is getting too big for the garden so I don't know what I'm doing to do with it.

If you start from seed, you wait several years just to see if you have a female or not--a lot of wasted time. I think you can also start one from a cutting, that might be an option to get a cutting from a known female tree that has fruit you like. Some of the varieties are stainless--white or pinkish fruit, not the purple that stains everything. I love mulberries, grew up with them in PA where they grew wild, we had a huge tree that was in the cow pasture across the fence--not on our property but on big King Ranch property that we treated like our own. That tree could have been a record size for a mulberry, it was huge, a whole herd of steers used to fit under it. I went back years ago to visit it and it was gone. My brother said it was cut down. Why anybody would do that is beyond me, what a travesty.

 

[jubilation]

The old Red Duroc line was originally named after the pig breed in the late 1800's because the coloring was the same. The name of this breed was changed in the early 1900's but I don't know what the name is now. We also raised the Red Duroc pigs along with White Leghorns when I was on the farm in Indiana.

 

[carnivore]

If anybody is considering a mulberry to grow because they want the fruit, I would highly suggest getting a known female tree from a nursery, a variety that has been breed for fruit. There are places that sell them mail order as dormant, bare root. You have to order at the right time, which of course now is not. I got mine from Burnt Ridge Nursery, I think they are in Oregon, they have several varieties. I don't know how you get any fruit from a tree, the wild birds would clean me out if the tree wasn't in my covered garden, but the tree is getting too big for the garden so I don't know what I'm doing to do with it.

If you start from seed, you wait several years just to see if you have a female or not--a lot of wasted time. I think you can also start one from a cutting, that might be an option to get a cutting from a known female tree that has fruit you like. Some of the varieties are stainless--white or pinkish fruit, not the purple that stains everything. I love mulberries, grew up with them in PA where they grew wild, we had a huge tree that was in the cow pasture across the fence--not on our property but on big King Ranch property that we treated like our own. That tree could have been a record size for a mulberry, it was huge, a whole herd of steers used to fit under it. I went back years ago to visit it and it was gone. My brother said it was cut down. Why anybody would do that is beyond me, what a travesty.

I ordered mine bare root from some nursery, can't even remember the name now. (I also got a persimmon tree from them that didn't make it). You can see the mulberry in the background of the oak tree pic I posted above. It is only about 7 feet tall now, and I have only got a few berries from it, if you wait for them to ripen, the birds will get them before you do!

 

[chicksurreal]

I used to live in Phoenix, but moved to Tucson in '94 for work (aircraft mech). Tucson is much more laid back than Phx, and I imagine Prescott is even more so. Used to kick around the Bradshaws a lot when I lived in Phx, but haven't been up that way in years.

As far as free time? Right now, I am bottling water, loading ammo for a rifle I haven't even bought yet, and polishing off a bottle of merlot. Life is good.

I grew up on a ranch in the Bradshaws!

Prescott is pretty laid back, I love it up there. We live further south than that now, but not too much.

Sounds like your free time is well spent. ;-)

 

[chicksurreal]

I hope you specifically bought FRUITING mulberries if you want fruit. Mulberries come male and female plants and only the females produce fruit. The male mulberries are generally sold in nurseries, because people don't want the mess from the fruit, but not in Tucson, they were banned here because of allergy problems from the male pollen. You don't need a male tree to have fruit from your female tree.

Yes! We mainly wanted them for fruit so I made sure they were the right ones. So glad I checked!

 

[K9Dave]

I trust all you Tucson and Phoenix peeps survived the recent storms?  It's all good for me in Cochise County.  I'm supplying a local mom & pop grocery with eggs, so I'm moving as many as I did as a farmers market vendor, without standing around for four hours and dealing with customers (AKA weirdos).  The "replacement" pullets are now going to just expand the flock from 20 to 35, as the older gals are still laying very well.  They go broody easily and "deeply" (if that's a good term to use).  So I made a second roost out of scrap materials.  I know, lousy craftsmanship but the chickies don't care so I don't either.  Cheers!

Did you mean to add a photo here? That's cool that you're selling you're eggs like that.

 

[City farm]

Oh boy, how blessed can you be to have a industrial electrician... when something like this happen..

Even after almost 32 years of marriage, I still, every day, consider myself blessed to have my DH! 

So good to hear.. Dido!!