Arizona Chickens

[Sill]

@City farm your new neighbor.

http://kjzz.org/content/39514/tempe-golf-course-soon-be-farm-and-garden

Anyone go to Singh Farms?

I had no idea, and I drive by there all the time. I wonder if we can go visit there?

A couple hours later and the chick is out.

Congrats on the new chick(s). What breed are they?

 

[carnivore]

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[wldlfe]

I had no idea, and I drive by there all the time. I wonder if we can go visit there?

Congrats on the new chick(s). What breed are they?

Chick number 2 just pipped. That one is one of the Ameraucanas. We also have some Silver Duckwing bantams about to hatch in the next day or two.

 

[desertmarcy]

I'm still thinning out my laying hens. Goal is to get the numbers down enough so I can combine my two big laying groups into one and use one pen to split up my growing Barred Rocks. I think I'm down to 61 layers and would like to get down to 50 or less. I have extra German New Hampshire and heritage Rhode Island Red hens---one year olds, hatched last spring. Also some two year old Ameraucana/Orloff crosses that have the mellow disposition of the Orloff but lay pretty blue eggs. PM me if interested.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

This may sound weird but.... sweet a hawk just landed on my chicken run fence. The girls aren't to bothered by it but it sure made all these @#$% wild birds scatter. Hope it hangs around a while.

 

[Papas Chickens]

This may sound weird but.... sweet a hawk just landed on my chicken run fence. The girls aren't to bothered by it but it sure made all these @#$% wild birds scatter. Hope it hangs around a while.

I have Hawks and Turkey Vultures land in my yard all the time, my GSP usually chases them off he caught a Vulture once i was like oh crap **** bird is bigger then him lol.

 

[girlchick]

Chick number 2 just pipped. That one is one of the Ameraucanas. We also have some Silver Duckwing bantams about to hatch in the next day or two.

YAY! Congrats! Two more weeks for me to wait.....wait....wait until hatch time here.

 

[Papas Chickens]

I have a question, my five week old girls are not eating as much as they did when they were in the grow up coop. We have ants in there run and they are always eating them and i feed them grass from my garden every few days, could that be the reason? Or could it be from the heat? One person said it could be cocci but they have been medicated for that and there is no diarrhea, weight loss or bloody feces, isnt it to hot right now for cocci? There run and coop has sand and clay bottoms witch are only wet when it rains witch is hardly ever lol except for there water hole i made for them that i fill up twice a day and they lay in that when it drains during the heat of the day. What do you guys think?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

I have a question, my five week old girls are not eating as much as they did when they were in the grow up coop. We have ants in there run and they are always eating them and i feed them grass from my garden every few days, could that be the reason? Or could it be from the heat? One person said it could be cocci but they have been medicated for that and there is no diarrhea, weight loss or bloody feces, isnt it to hot right now for cocci? There run and coop has sand and clay bottoms witch are only wet when it rains witch is hardly ever lol except for there water hole i made for them that i fill up twice a day and they lay in that when it drains during the heat of the day. What do you guys think?

Chickens eat a lot less when it's this hot out. It's not too hot for cocci, but it doesn't sound like your birds are showing any symptoms either. As long as they're acting normally, I wouldn't worry too much yet.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

This may sound weird but.... sweet a hawk just landed on my chicken run fence. The girls aren't to bothered by it but it sure made all these @#$% wild birds scatter. Hope it hangs around a while.

Was it a Coopers? I don't know what's going on with our hawk population here in Tucson, but it seems to have crashed in the past few months. I'm lucky if we have a Cooper's show up once a week. In years past I'd be more likely than not to see one out there at any give time. On a walk around the neighborhood we could see as many as five or six and now we might not even see one. We're also not seeing many Red Tailed or Harris hawks. I wonder if they're succumbing to Trichomonas from the doves? Anybody hear anything recently about this?