Arizona Chickens

[dofnup]

@Sill @moms3cuties ... did somebody say goat + East Valley?? I'm in the East Valley, I want a goooaaaattt!!!

And now, in serious chicken news: the silence in my coop didn't last...I'm pretty sure I've got more boys ... sigh.

I know it's a long shot, but I gotta try ... anybody want a Cuckoo Marans and/or a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte rooster?

I confess I've never processed a chicken for eating ... if I have to cull more I might have to learn just so it doesn't feel like such a waste

they seem so skinny when they're juveniles, though ... is there really enough meat to make it worth the effort??

Advise me, o wise ones of the message board!!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

I hatch my eggs from my own chickens - a heritage breed that needs work.  If 30% of the eggs I collect actually hatch I'm doing well.  Many are not fertile, or they stop developing before they make it into the hatcher.  Of the eggs that do make it into the hatcher I usually get a 60-80% hatch rate.  It's not always the shipping of eggs that is the problem.  Sometimes it is the particular birds producing the eggs. 

My last hatch for this season was a set of test crosses with some new birds I brought into the flock (same breed, different line).  There were four different crosses.  The hatch rates were 0%, 0%, 25%, and 100%.  If the chicks from the 100% hatch grow out to look anything like the Standard, I will be using that pairing next year.  Hope some of them are pullets.     

What breed do you work with?

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

* Lost 1 of my Salmon Faverolles last night. :-/ Now I'm bird dogging them even more.

What do you mean by bird dogging? I got some salmon favorelles a few weeks ago. I have one with some crooked toes I probably won't use for breeding if you are interested.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

I have always wanted a Salmon Feverolles..

I may a couple extra. I'll know in a couple weeks as they feather out.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

@Sill oh yeah I agree..
On another note, look what is still ALIVE!! OH, KAY...

After just water with Root's, & just dirt, & root's with water THEN root hormone..Which none of these attempts were successful... I cut off the dead part and going to try just root hormone!!! If nothing else we are heading back to Tucson!! I love this plant, the smell and the use of it! It is probably going to do best in just water.. So if this does not work, I will cut off what is left & attempt to do just water.. It was a bit awkward in a glass jar.. I had to prop it up, & harvesting it almost fell down... Anyho.. Hope to have some to share someday.. Or a trip to see @Gallo del Cielo
Unless someone else has some of this Cuban oregano??

Hay, does anyone know where the seed box is??

What climbing vine can I grow for shade on the west side of my coop?

 

[Sill]

@Sill oh yeah I agree..
On another note, look what is still ALIVE!! OH, KAY...

After just water with Root's, & just dirt, & root's with water THEN root hormone..Which none of these attempts were successful... I cut off the dead part and going to try just root hormone!!! If nothing else we are heading back to Tucson!! I love this plant, the smell and the use of it! It is probably going to do best in just water.. So if this does not work, I will cut off what is left & attempt to do just water.. It was a bit awkward in a glass jar.. I had to prop it up, & harvesting it almost fell down... Anyho.. Hope to have some to share someday.. Or a trip to see @Gallo del Cielo
Unless someone else has some of this Cuban oregano??

Hay, does anyone know where the seed box is??

I'm so glad you got some of yours to live, mine all died! My wonderful DH bought me a used cloner since I've had such rotten luck with cuttings. Yeah I know what it was probably used for but I want it for culinary herbs and soft wood cuttings.

Ya all know that my family tells me to stop bringing plant's home..

Well, AND chicken's..
Do seed's & bulbs count?

Why of course it doesn't count!

 

[HisKoolGurl]

Anyone know where I can get a Polish or Frizzle here in Arizona?

 

[Sill]

Hi Everyone!

I don't post over here on the AZ thread very often, but wanted to post and say if anyone needs hatching eggs, I have a glut of eggs right now, and would be happy to donate some FREE to BYC'ers. So, if you have broody hen, or want to fire up the incubator and practice hatching, or just want some Aloha chickens, please contact me.

My flock includes Speckled Sussex, Buff Sussex, (and crosses) and my Alohas, which are small (Leghorn size) mixed breed containing Exchequer Leghorn, New Hampshire Red, Sussex, Swedish, a teeny dash of Buff Orp and Buff Rock, and probably some Old English Game. Very good layers, very good in our heat.

Photos here:

https://www.pinterest.com/alohachickens/aloha-chickens/

I have an ad up selling hatching eggs, but if someone comes to my door I want to sell them the FRESHEST eggs possible. Right now I have many dozens that are reaching 4-5 days old. These would be free for hatching, please message me if interested. I will feed them back to my hens and doggies in a few days if there are no claimers.

PM sent

@Sill @moms3cuties ... did somebody say goat + East Valley?? I'm in the East Valley, I want a goooaaaattt!!!

And now, in serious chicken news: the silence in my coop didn't last...I'm pretty sure I've got more boys ... sigh.

I know it's a long shot, but I gotta try ... anybody want a Cuckoo Marans and/or a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte rooster?

I confess I've never processed a chicken for eating ... if I have to cull more I might have to learn just so it doesn't feel like such a waste

they seem so skinny when they're juveniles, though ... is there really enough meat to make it worth the effort??

Advise me, o wise ones of the message board!!

It gets to where you don't mind so much because you get peace and quiet afterwards. Yeah they are skinny when young, so it's a trade off. Do you want to wait for more meat and put up with the noise or cull early and get a smaller carcass but zero crows.

What climbing vine can I grow for shade on the west side of my coop?

Depends on how much reflected heat there will be. Bouganvilla can take any amount of heat! Grapes are great since they give you fruit.

 

[houdiniduck]

Anyone know where I can get a Polish or Frizzle here in Arizona?

What kind of polish are you looking for? I have a few.

 

[houdiniduck]

Well my yard is getting really noisy. I have a bunch of rooster juveniles that are making noise, I have a polish roo who gets the collar this weekend and GASP the three month old BLRW, one of them at least, is crowing too. His crow is tiny and adorable and makes me giggle. The others, not so much. Even with the ones I am keeping I still have at least 4 that need to go. I am SOOOO over roosters. No one wants them and now I have to eat them, but like someone else said, they seem very skinny, so I am kinda not excited to cull them now, but the noise is getting out of control and I am afraid of one of my neighbors getting fed up. I REALLY need to move, but That isn't in the cards until this time next year.

My muscovy duck plans are an abysmal failure. The one hen went psycho broody, so we let her sit in the nest and do her thing with visions of ducklings dancing in our heads... and the other hen stopped laying. So fast forward 40 days and I dragged her off the nest and she had 3 rotten eggs. THREE eggs! They usually clutch up on upwards of 30 eggs. I had a few in the incubator and they all died in their shells at hatch. So now I am back to square one. Houdini just started laying again yesterday so I am taking her eggs and starting over again once I have enough to incubate a big batch. @Sill I haven't forgotten you. Hopefully I will get some live ducks this next go round in the incubator. Muscovy have been a freaking nightmare, while I drown in chickens. HAHAHHA.

We have a flat of Quail eggs to go into the incubator so that we can try our hand at a batch to raise for meat. One of my hens died. I think she laid a double yolker and got messed up or something. She was fine one minute and gone the next on the same day we got a double yolked egg.
DF made me a watering system for both the Quail and the big chicken coop. It will be a huge help as it gets hotter and hotter.

We are planning a wedding and it is severely cramping my chicken plan budget. HAHAHAHAH.