Arizona Chickens

[mom-to-5]

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.

Ok, I will bring them inside. It must be the heat. I'm certain they are dead. We haven't had them but about 5-6 days and the ones that were black and soft a few days ago are now black and hard. So, they are dead. Ugh! Thinking I may have bought too many also (2000). I also have mine in a Wallyworld clear plastic tote. It's long (36") and narrow(13"), but not very tall (about 6").

 

[cyborg]

Ok, I will bring them inside. It must be the heat. I'm certain they are dead. We haven't had them but about 5-6 days and the ones that were black and soft a few days ago are now black and hard. So, they are dead. Ugh! Thinking I may have bought too many also (2000). I also have mine in a Wallyworld clear plastic tote. It's long (36") and narrow(13"), but not very tall (about 6").

Yes, I did 2000 also. Don't throw the dead ones away yet, the other mealworms will eat them if they're dead (and even if they're not, that's why you separate them). The dead may surprise you, they do get hard when they pupate.

 

[kpgoldstar]

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?

When mine were younger I had to pick them up and place them in the coop at dusk. Like they didn't know that was where they were supposed to sleep. It was so cute once they got a little more mature when they put themselves to bed! We would stand around the coop and wait for them to decide it was time then watch them gather around and go up the stairs to the roost bars. I think you sort of have to train them for a couple weeks.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Mealworms work wonders when I want to get my chickens back to the coop before it's dark. They all usually go in on their own but if I'm leaving before dark and want them in before I leave...mealworms to the rescue!

I treated my girls to dried cranberries and sunflower seeds (the shelled kind). I got them from the packet inside the Baby Kale/7 Superfoods bagged salad from Costco. Yum for humans, yum for chickies!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

ROOSTER TRAINING

I have 2 roosters of breeding age, one Black Copper Marans, and one Wheaten Ameraucana. The BCM is king of the hill, and will chase the AM away whenever he feels macho, keeping the AM away from the hens and the food, or just chasing him for the h*ll of it. Naturally, this gets all the other chickens stirred up. I discovered this morning while out in the run, if I just point my finger at the rowdy one, he freezes in his tracks. Is that cool or what?

Went out for a little greenhouse maintenance after the morning feed, (the best fertilizer is your footsteps!), and collected about a dozen and a half large, fat hornworms, and two sphinx moths (adult hornworms). I occasionally find them on my tobacco, chilis, or tomatoes, but they seem to prefer eggplants over all others. Either way, the chickens dearly love a little animal protein!

you must have a calm, strong Alfa presents. Top roosters know when there is a bigger badder rooster. I learned that watching a horseman handle horses. 1 particular horse, we all complained about. He walked over, I noted the reaction/body language of the horse. He mounted, and that nag turned into a magnificent mount, responding to every request, instantly. He dropped the rains, I was fixated on the two of them as he collected, changed leads, turned and stopped and backed this horse up. That was a powerful lesson to me. Your Alfa is Alfa when you are not there, you be superior gallo in the chicken yard.

 

[cyborg]

you must have a calm, strong Alfa presents. Top roosters know when there is a bigger badder rooster. I learned that watching a horseman handle horses. 1 particular horse, we all complained about. He walked over, I noted the reaction/body language of the horse. He mounted, and that nag turned into a magnificent mount, responding to every request, instantly. He dropped the rains, I was fixated on the two of them as he collected, changed leads, turned and stopped and backed this horse up. That was a powerful lesson to me. Your Alfa is Alfa when you are not there, you be superior gallo in the chicken yard.

Ha! He just knows that when he gets to be too much of an @$$&01#, I'll squirt him with the hose!
Maybe he associates me pointing my finger with me pointing the hose nozzle!

 

[cash money]

Let's here it for mesa I live there to as long as your chickens have plenty of water and shade and your chickens will be fine

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Lutefisk taste like rotten mulled fish.

We have left overs we have to eat first. And Monday I am invited to a BBQ in Minneapolis. So we will have it later. I have to make lefse. [VIDEO]

In Norway a village was discovered, lost to an avalanche, and abandoned. A stash of preserved cod was found. Estimated over 200 years old. A few of the dried cod (same preservation as done to day) was reconstituted, lutefisk. It tasted exactly like preserved dry cod only a yr old. It is indestructible, the archaeologists believe that it could have sat for another 200 or more years and still be good to eat....... DID THEY SAY GOOD TO EAT?

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

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

I do not think I would want to use the Trader Joes eggs. They are basically a leghorn mix and the boys are going to be scrawny.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

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