Arizona Chickens

[carnivore]

That's a beauty - won't last long for the chicks though - they will be perching on top of that rain within the week!!! Just my experience.  I've used a baby playpen and by the time they are three or four weeks old they are trying to fly up to perch on the edges of the playpen!!  Its a beauty though - and will be much easier to clean than the playpen!!!  Enjoy.

A little bird netting across the top would make those flights pretty short.

 

[K9Dave]

Keep me posted on any beef/pork shares in the future. We bought 1/4 beef last year from www.huwareserve.com but their prices have skyrocketed lately. We have also bought from www.doublecheckranch.com as they come to several of the valley farmer's markets.

I checked out Date Creek too. Sounds great, good prices. I read all the posts even though it only takes a day or two to get WAY behind!

I now have the seed box and will return it when I come back to the Valley to meet my newly born Granddaughter. She is due on Sept. 9 and I am thinking we will be down within a week or two of her arrival. Let me know whoever wants it and we'll make arrangements to get it in your hands.

I'm gonna make a list here for when we make the order.

 

[girlchick]

@girlchick do you want the seed box before I go back down to Phoenix? You're not that far from me, we could arrange to meet but then it would have to get back down there at some point.
Good luck with your hatch, please let us know how it goes.

I have a pecking chicken too. I posted on here and most people recommended making her into soup. She is the only one who does it and she is very deliberate about it and would even draw blood. I tried all the methods, holding her down and pinching her beak; leaving her in the coop when everyone else got to go out to free range; "pecking" her back by flicking her with my finger; giving her a good swift kick when she did it. Nothing worked. She hasn't pecked me in a few months, but she gets this look in her eye and starts to go after me, then looks at me and changes her mind. I make sure I never turn my back on her and if I need to walk by her, I skirt around a little. I only have 4 girls all raised together from chicks and they are very spoiled. She has no reason to peck me. I think she is just a bully. I don't have much of a pecking order but I have seen her peck a couple of the others on a rare occasion.

We have been enjoying the cooler temps this August and it looks as if it will remain that way for at least the next week or so. We are used to seeing 114+ days and 92 for lows this month but so far we're not anywhere near that. It's supposed to be maybe 108 or 109 by the end of this week but that's still not too bad. I think my girls are having a bit of a molt. I have 2 with no neck feathers and one who has a bunch of new feathers that are really light, she is almost mottled red/white right now. They will be one year old around the 25th of September. I was so worried about them making it through the summer but the end is on the horizon and they have done so well! I'm really pleased.

I only had one day when I got no eggs at all. Some days 1, most days 2. Last week I got 4 eggs in one day! It's been a while since that happened.

Thanks for the seed box offer, but I will pass on it this time.

I am on pins and needles..two of my eggs have pipped the shell since last night!!

No defined hole, but cracked and wiggling. Monday is day 21.

I, too, have 4 pullets that grew up together and just the one is a brat. LOL I picked each one up yesterday and petted her. The only one who didn't talk to me while I held her was the brat girl, but she sat quietly in my arms and didn't wriggle at all. Go figure.

I'm still waiting for the first egg. The girls are just 20 weeks old today, so it might be a bit longer. (I check every day tho'

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[wldlfe]

That's a beauty - won't last long for the chicks though - they will be perching on top of that rain within the week!!! Just my experience.  I've used a baby playpen and by the time they are three or four weeks old they are trying to fly up to perch on the edges of the playpen!!  Its a beauty though - and will be much easier to clean than the playpen!!!  Enjoy.

Ya, it's not done yet, they are already trying to get up on the edge. I still need to add another 16 inch's for the top, which I'm building now. I designed it so the middle slats slide out and I can clean the pen easier. Plus I can tear it down and store it without taking up too much space.

 

[kpgoldstar]

Thanks for the seed box offer, but I will pass on it this time.

I am on pins and needles..two of my eggs have pipped the shell since last night!!

No defined hole, but cracked and wiggling. Monday is day 21.

I, too, have 4 pullets that grew up together and just the one is a brat. LOL I picked each one up yesterday and petted her. The only one who didn't talk to me while I held her was the brat girl, but she sat quietly in my arms and didn't wriggle at all. Go figure.

I'm still waiting for the first egg. The girls are just 20 weeks old today, so it might be a bit longer. (I check every day tho'

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Yay! Take pics if you can when the first one emerges! Mine started laying right at about 19 weeks, but they are production hatchery reds. It was also late February so no heat stress to be bothered with.

 

[ChuskaMtns]

I am on pins and needles..two of my eggs have pipped  the shell since last night!!   No defined hole, but cracked and wiggling.  Monday is day 21.

I, too, have 4 pullets that grew up together and just the one is a brat.  LOL  I picked each one up yesterday and petted her.  The only one who didn't talk to me while I held her was the brat girl, but she sat quietly in my arms and didn't wriggle at all.  Go figure. 

I'm still waiting for the first egg.  The girls are just 20 weeks old today, so it might be a bit longer.  (I check every day tho' )

How eggciting! Take pics & post here please! I find myself checking the incubator every 5 minutes when they first pip, then end up pulling up a chair & stay glued there so I don't miss anything.

 

[a little chiken]

I'm gonna make a list here for when we make the order.

just found this on a site im on

calves for sale , 250lbs to 550lbs had pyramid 5/ preresponse , a round of blackleg 7 way started on feed will make great cattle to feed out, buy one to feed out or i can feed it out for you 9287108178

his prices start at 550-

 

[girlchick]

Yay! Take pics if you can when the first one emerges! Mine started laying right at about 19 weeks, but they are production hatchery reds. It was also late February so no heat stress to be bothered with.

YIPPEE!!! First one has hatched and is peeping and moving all over the place. It's a Black Copper Marans. I will take pics when the chick moves into a good spot under the window. It's still real wet. The other pipped egg is an Ameracauna. This is SO cool I'm about to pop. LOL

 

[girlchick]

How eggciting! Take pics & post here please! I find myself checking the incubator every 5 minutes when they first pip, then end up pulling up a chair & stay glued there so I don't miss anything.

Eggciting is an understatement! I keep peeking in every half hour or so and talking to the darned eggs and the chick. DH is trying to be cool about the whole thing, but I catch him peeking in there every time he passes the incubator. LOL Pictures will be posted later today, promise.

 

[aliciasimon]

Thanks to everyone that replied about low egg production in the summer. Relieved it is just the heat and also sad that it is the heat. We give them oyster shell but I might add a little more.

My poor girls. I do a lot of apologizing to them for how hot it is

51 days until October....not that I'm counting.