Arizona Chickens

[Papas Chickens]

Are you trying to get them back in before dark? Do they find another place to sleep outside the coop? All together or just a few? What time do you let them out? I remember at first the little stinkers would not come out.. Now they actually fly out, only a few.. The jungle fowl can fly.. Put some treats in their coop, I call them with, "bugs, bugs, bugs, & treat, treat, treat" they come running.. They also love our cat food..
Will you post up your photo you posted on " what is this chicken thinking"

They didnt want to come in at all yesterday evening before dark i had to catch each one by hand, i used raisins they followed me about half way then stopped and ran back into the front yard. I have only been putting 8 out 7 pullets and 1 Roo. Ill try BOSS this evening to see if they will follow, Should i stand by there coop and call them with the BOSS or make a trail? The last chickens i had always followed us so not sure what im doing wrong. I cant keep them out all night because of our dogs, the chickens stay out of from 8 or 9 am until the evening time around 6 or 7 pm then i try to get them back in. Is that to late to try to get them in? What pic are you talking about i posted a few lol.

 

[City farm]

Are you trying to get them back in before dark? Do they find another place to sleep outside the coop? All together or just a few? What time do you let them out? I remember at first the little stinkers would not come out.. Now they actually fly out, only a few.. The jungle fowl can fly.. Put some treats in their coop, I call them with, "bugs, bugs, bugs,

They didnt want to come in at all yesterday evening before dark i had to catch each one by hand, i used raisins they followed me about half way then stopped and ran back into the front yard. I have only been putting 8 out 7 pullets and 1 Roo. Ill try BOSS this evening to see if they will follow, Should i stand by there coop and call them with the BOSS or make a trail? The last chickens i had always followed us so not sure what im doing wrong. I cant keep them out all night because of our dogs, the chickens stay out of from 8 or 9 am until the evening time around 6 or 7 pm then i try to get them back in. Is that to late to try to get them in? What pic are you talking about i posted a few lol. 

Not sure, but, if you leave them out most of the day they might think this is their new home, rather than the coop, really not sure. We have a long run for most of the day, then let them out around 5 pm.. They are use d to being in the run, food water & what not.. If I were you I would wait till they roost out front, then go a get them one, by one & put them back.. If we chase them there is no way we can get then all in at one time.. You could use a spray bottle..
I responded to your photo on the other Fourm.. I think it was your photo? Let me take a photo & post.. I can't post for a few days.. We are getting ready to have a party here.. Plus earlier this morning BYC was updating so I went to the other Fourm & signed up.. Boy oh boy all about gardening!! So I have waisted so much time already this morning..

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

"Girlfriend" the Delaware Hen was singing the song this morning for the first time but I didn't find an egg anywhere. Will they sing without laying?

What does said particular song sound like?

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Oh MY! I eat a lot of strange foods, some an acquired tast. By dear brother is pulling one on me... To make it worst, in this part of the country it is not a strange food. We are having it to marrow night! Ludefisk

Pray for me. I am afraid, but I will eat it. I can't believe he likes it......... Really!
[VIDEO]

Nice! My Writing 101 students read Cod by Mark Kurlansky. For their final paper they write a sociocultural history of a cod dish. A few did lutefisk, but I have yet to taste it myself.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

a little chickeneverybody seems to have good advice, specially Desrtmarcy, she has loads of experience. I use DE, Poultry Powder (sometimes mixed), bathing in Dawn then blow dry. So far it has worked for me. As long as I fallow up with cleaning area, spraying, powdering and so forth. The bathing was for a girl I counted more then 10 on. The figure is for every 1 there are 100 - 500 you do not see. It must be true, on the one I washed she was infested. She had colony's I discovered on her feather roots in one spot. She was sick and weakened so the mites and lice moved in, they, I am sure were making her sick. She had bugs in several stages of life dying on her. I Fallowed up every few days, (all my girls do to association). sense it was not sure of life cycle of mites for a couple of weeks.

I had a covered kennels. Doves would get in, I trapped them caught them, sprayed and powdered them, then released them.

Ugh those #@/$*&^ doves! They get in my coops and I feed them to my dogs. Hate those nasty freeloaders.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night? 

Post dinner kitchen scraps. Mine will come running.

 

[mom-to-5]

I have a mealworm question for those of you that raise your own.
I order some meal worms online, I received them two days after shipment and there were very few dead ones. I put them in a large, flat, clear plastic container with air holes in the lid. I am using oats as their substrate and have been giving fresh veggies or fruit daily (celery, carrots, cantaloupe rinds, etc) they seem to be eating very well.
I have them in the storage compartment of the coop. So they are in the heat but not in the sun.
Anyway, they seem to be dying and a fast rate. There are a lot of dark, dead ones. There are several skins I see which tells me that some are molting which is fabulous but are they dying because of the heat, lack of moisture, or???
Am I doing something wrong?
I thought I could keep them outside but maybe the heat is too much?
I want stop spending a small fortune at the local pet store buying mealworms for my girls.

 

[FeatherPugs]

They didnt want to come in at all yesterday evening before dark i had to catch each one by hand, i used raisins they followed me about half way then stopped and ran back into the front yard. I have only been putting 8 out 7 pullets and 1 Roo. Ill try BOSS this evening to see if they will follow, Should i stand by there coop and call them with the BOSS or make a trail? The last chickens i had always followed us so not sure what im doing wrong. I cant keep them out all night because of our dogs, the chickens stay out of from 8 or 9 am until the evening time around 6 or 7 pm then i try to get them back in. Is that to late to try to get them in? What pic are you talking about i posted a few lol.

I always have stood in the coop run - AND with one of the treats they love and ONLY get in the coop run. I use chick, chick, chick - they come running - even the newbies. Just watch the sunset and go about a half hour before. Keep working on it - they will get it before you know it.

 

[cyborg]

I have a mealworm question for those of you that raise your own.
I order some meal worms online, I received them two days after shipment and there were very few dead ones. I put them in a large, flat, clear plastic container with air holes in the lid. I am using oats as their substrate and have been giving fresh veggies or fruit daily (celery, carrots, cantaloupe rinds, etc) they seem to be eating very well.
I have them in the storage compartment of the coop. So they are in the heat but not in the sun.
Anyway, they seem to be dying and a fast rate. There are a lot of dark, dead ones. There are several skins I see which tells me that some are molting which is fabulous but are they dying because of the heat, lack of moisture, or???
Am I doing something wrong?
I thought I could keep them outside but maybe the heat is too much?
I want stop spending a small fortune at the local pet store buying mealworms for my girls.

Bring them inside. When I was raising them, I gave them nothing but wheat bran. I used a plastic wallyworld storage container, cut a hole in the lid and screened it. With nothing but wheat bran, no smell, no fuss. Are you sure they are dying, or maybe just pupating?
Put the "dead" ones in a separate screened box with a few scraps of cardboard and some wheat bran, they will probably hatch and start laying eggs to keep you in business.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Hear ye, hear ye, Trader Joe's in Oro Valley has fertile eggs!