Arizona Chickens

[FeatherPugs]

Im thinking about making a barley fodder system for my girls to cut down on food costs, what do ya'll think?

What are you thinking about??? Curious as I want to do something too but all seems to take too much room.

 

[City farm]

since we've had a lot of floods here lately and a storm is coming, I wondered who has flood insurance? who do you use?

 

[FeatherPugs]

AMDRO question: I have been out/town for several days and our daughter spread amdro in several locations in the back yard. Thankfully, she kept the chickens penned up. DH now wants to let the girls out to run around. Amdro hotline is not open. Does anyone have experience having used this stuff. Worked great on the ant problem. Don't want it to kill our chickens. Thanks to anyone who can help.

I never leave it where the chickens can get it - I've always treated it like it was poison. You could put a pot over the areas where its sitting in the yard. I have done that and then sweep up the leftovers when I remove the pot after a few weeks.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Whoa. That's a lot. I would live to pick them up whenever we can get together. I have so much to learn so I want to start by asking here.

This is the little Feral Hen I plan to use to hatch them. She has claimed the entire nesting box so I think that I should move her to hatch the eggs correct? I have a little Segregation Coop that I an keep her in. So the nest she's sitting in has like 5 fake eggs and she lays on them constantly. Will she lay on the eggs when I move her to another spot? How many can she lay on at a time? She looks like a Game Hen to me and isn't very big. Not much sq ft under her. I have an incubator now too. Hmm

That is a black tailed buff Japanese Bantam hen.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Pictures of the new chickens!

S/he is like a silkie-barred something ...



How old do you think this guy/gal is?


Oh Dear, what those big chickens doing down there?


Fluffy Chick and EEer: I might have to separate them. They are pretty scared although the big hens aren't being that bad. Asserting their place, but I wouldn't ganging up or bullying.

 

[Sill]

Pictures of the new chickens!

S/he is like a silkie-barred something ...



How old do you think this guy/gal is?


Oh Dear, what those big chickens doing down there?


Fluffy Chick and EEer: I might have to separate them. They are pretty scared although the big hens aren't being that bad. Asserting their place, but I wouldn't ganging up or bullying.

Pretty!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

And here are a couple other pix of the girls(@desertmarcy take a look at your girls):

This is Croquembouche, the Blue Copper Maran. I love this pic ... the light is awesome and shows off her copper. If only the ugly spray painting wasn't on the back of the shed. (The landlady's daughter did it ... I think with permission.) I renamed her from "Bluey," which was boring. Croquembouche is a French dessert.




Crannie: She loves me now since I've been giving them treats ... in fact, she pecks my hand even without anything in it. I don't want her to get too demanding. I might have to stop hand feeding her for awhile. How do you teach chickens manners?


Crannie


More Crannie. She's my shadow now.


Silly dove caught in netting. She got out herself.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

OK, Seamus and I just put up Mr. Darcy's XL wire doggie crate. I put a smaller kittie crate inside with some shavings and put the two newbies in there. We shall see how it goes tomorrow. (It is in the pen itself.)

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

And here are a couple other pix of the girls(@desertmarcy take a look at your girls): This is Croquembouche, the Blue Copper Maran. I love this pic ... the light is awesome and shows off her copper. If only the ugly spray painting wasn't on the back of the shed. (The landlady's daughter did it ... I think with permission.) I renamed her from "Bluey," which was boring. Croquembouche is a French dessert. Crannie: She loves me now since I've been giving them treats ... in fact, she pecks my hand even without anything in it. I don't want her to get too demanding. I might have to stop hand feeding her for awhile. How do you teach chickens manners? Crannie More Crannie. She's my shadow now. Silly dove caught in netting. She got out herself.

Pretty girls!

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

I just candled my eggs from the guy in Missouri that I shipped in. Of 36 eggs only 6 were clear OMG. I have 18 Guinea eggs 3 Jaerhorn EE and some assorted bantams developing.