Arizona Chickens

[aviddamy]

I'm sure the heat can be horrible. I'm making my coop as open as I can. Basically framed chicken wire on two sides so they have plenty of air flow. I'll do everything I can to help them stay cool. Sadly I don't have a lot of shade, just on one side of my house. Once my daughters have left the nest and have taken their dogs, I'm sure the chickens will spend a lot of time on that side of the house haha. I plan to plant some shade loving plants over there for them.

 

[aviddamy]

My husband travels to Phoenix quite often. When I go, we pass through Dateland and stop at that little travel center there.

 

[a little chiken]

Hi everyone. I'm new. I live in Yuma and I'm preparing to go on my new chicken adventure. I'm getting Buff Orpingtons and some meat chickens in the mail in a bit more than a week. I've been reading everything I can get my hands on.
My brooder is up and ready to go. My coop will be finished soon and I'll keep adding to it over time. This should be fun. Wish me luck!

gonna love Chicken keeping

Haha. I just kinda take everything lightly. I gave my Drill Sgt.'s Hell and have some good stories there too. I used to say yes to anything and try anything so it leads to a lot of stories. Some trouble too but a lot of good times. All I have anymore are stories it seems as all of my friends have moved apart. Glad you like

yes it reminds me of my red neck family. sometimes our stories are all we have but boy are they fun to recount

Hello friends:

I am looking to re-home some bantam roosters. They are the Serama breed. They are approx. one year old.

I currently have 7 roosters. I need to re-home 4.

I live in the City of Maricopa.

If interested, please text me at 520-483-4444.

NO CHARGE!

Thanks,
Jack

im not a Bantam lover but Welcome

Thanks! I can't wait to see what beautiful eggs the new girls lay. I am especially looking forward to any tiny silkie eggs I might get. My RIR lays a very small egg, she used to be my smallest chicken. I still need to get a scale to weigh them. I have no idea what sizes they actually lay.

My RIR Phillie was the low hen in the pecking order until the new girls were moved outside. She's quite a pest to the new girls. She doesn't hurt them but keeps them in line. I think she is doing her best to keep her spot as number 4 of the 8.

I have found treats are the great equalizer. It's the only time they mix up at all. It's usually Bunny, my silkie, who will run right into the group of older girls to get her share of treats where the other newbies are still timid to go in and snatch something good.

My Welsummer has decided to molt her entire tail all at once as well as a a lot of her wing feathers. She has a ton of pin feathers starting. I have started giving them high protein treat mix I made up. It's a big bowl with scrambled egg, wet and dry cat food, cooked black beans, starter/grower and wild bird seed with boss. I give them a few scoops of it every other day or so to help them along with the molt.

My Welly on the back left used to have a big beautiful tail like my EE on the right.



Onyxia is doing her thing gradually and is losing feathers only as fast as she can grow them so she has a mix of old grungy feathers and new shiny ones.


Tea has a ton of new feathers coming in at the base of her wings and neck

I make FF and I make a mix up for my girls and their molt has been half of what last years was. I use 2 parts grower, 1 part scratch, 1 part COBB,1 scoop BOSS and a cup or 2 of Calf Manna. they love love love it and since I ferment its all mixed together. Molt is going very well.

 

[rhondita55]

I put some burlap over part of the run for shade and then when it gets up to 105° I turn on a little mister that just fits on the end of the water hose.

 

[Twinklin]

I make FF and I make a mix up for my girls and their molt has been half of what last years was. I use 2 parts grower, 1 part scratch, 1 part COBB,1 scoop BOSS and a cup or 2 of Calf Manna. they love love love it and since I ferment its all mixed together. Molt is going very well.

Unfortunately I can't ferment. My EE doesn't handle it well. She has a pendulous crop and it caused her chronic sour crop for many months when she was younger and she had the worst time when they were on FF. She was in a crop bra for 6 months which helped her regain some elasticity in her crop again. She's been out of the bra for a few months now and has been doing great on dry crumble and free ranging so I'm not going to risk the FF again. They seem to like the protein mix i made for them. I bought some bananas and I might make a batch of protein muffins for them too if I get to the feed store for more mealworms and calf manna.

 

[K9Dave]

I think he is a Speckled Sussex

Thanks you

I ordered them from Welp Hatchery on recommendation from another chicken person I know. They have had very good customer service so far.

Just wondering. I haven't heard of that one yet. I'm pretty new.

 

[aviddamy]

I'm new too. I checked reviews and they have good customer service so I'm good. Plus they include shipping in the price of the chicks so it was a lot cheaper than others I looked at.

 

[a little chiken]

This is our Toy poodle Princess and my Silkied AM Cher. Princess thinks she is everyone's mom




my youngest NN this is Blackberry and Blueberry

 

[City farm]

This afternoon I had an interesting thing happen. I stepped out onto the patio this afternoon and saw a long fluffy tail hanging down from the roof. I couldn't quite see the whole animal, but whatever it was, looked like it was laying on it's side. I was not being particularly quiet, so I thought it might be dead. I stood up on a stump, but still wasn't high enough to see it. So I went over to the side of the house to the storage room, walking right under it, and got my 3' long aluminum snake tongs. Went back and the animal was still there. I grabbed the tail with the tongs as far up as I could and yanked down in one smooth movement! I pulled down a very much alive FOX which hit the concrete WHUMP! and must have stunned it a bit, it snarled and spit as it staggered off into the dirt. I went into the house to get my pellet gun, but by the time I cocked it and got back outside, the fox was gone. It must have been sleeping up on the roof. It was on the roof right under where my overgrown olive trees are branching over the roof, so it was shady. I think this fox is getting WAY too comfortable here! I have been finding bits of pipe tape wrap chewed off from our solar hot water pipes onthe roof and wonder if the fox is doing that. I thought it was a packrat. I am going to try setting traps. With all the poultry here, I really do not want this fox hanging around, beautiful as it is. I was a bit up on caffeine at the time, but let me tell you, I was REALLY buzzed after pulling a fox off the roof! I do not know what possessed me to do that except I didn't know what it was and thought it might be dead, but I pulled it down quick and hard just in case. So far, I have not seen any evidence it is trying to get into the pens and we have seen this fox (I assume the same one) on several occasions over the past several weeks, although only quick glimpses through a window and then it disappears. This was actually quite funny after I thought about it a bit. I will post photos if I am successful in trapping it.

 

[City farm]

 Hi everyone. I'm new. I live in Yuma and I'm preparing to go on my new chicken adventure. I'm getting Buff Orpingtons and some meat chickens in the mail in a bit more than a week. I've been reading everything I can get my hands on.
My brooder is up and ready to go. My coop will be finished soon and I'll keep adding to it over time. This should be fun.  Wish me luck! :yiipchick