Arizona Chickens

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Photo's of the two birchen modern game, not gamefowl as i mentioned earlier. They are the smallest babies & precious. .

Hen

we got them From @AZChiknGoddess

They look like a character in a Tim Burton film. LOL.

 

[ChuskaMtns]

Interesting chicken trivia, which I'm sure won't surprise anyone here:
Add up all the earth's cats, dogs, pigs, and cows and there would still be more chickens. Toss in every rat on earth and the chicken still dominates. More than 20 billion chickens live on our planet at any given moment, 3 for every human being. The nearest avian competitor is the red-billed quelea, a little African finch numbering a mere 2 billion or so.

 

[ChuskaMtns]

They look like a character in a Tim Burton film. LOL.

I was thinking more along the lines of Jurassic World, definite Velociraptor qualities about them.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

@MrsFitzDarcy i had to check what breed the silver chick was, hopefully a hen. .
Silver laced Wyandottes & blue copper marans mix.. i will post a photo of her later.

I am 80% it is a pullet. The cockerels that come out of that mix mature very fast, getting a cherry red comb quite early.

 

[houdiniduck]

Well I got home from my relaxing evening to find piggy and lacey the gold and silver laced wyandotte sisters in a pile in the run. Benadryl, pedialyte and b vitamins on board... their legs don't work right and they had clear slime coming from their mouths.... they seem to be doing a little better and are in chicken hospital for now... sitting on their legs, but feet are all curled up. Any ideas? I don't know why the photo option isn't showing up on my phone at the moment.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Well I got home from my relaxing evening to find piggy and lacey the gold and silver laced wyandotte sisters in a pile in the run. Benadryl, pedialyte and b vitamins on board... their legs don't work right and they had clear slime coming from their mouths.... they seem to be doing a little better and are in chicken hospital for now... sitting on their legs, but feet are all curled up. Any ideas? I don't know why the photo option isn't showing up on my phone at the moment.

Sounds like you are in the right track. Electrolytes was the first thing I thought of.

If things get worse the AZ Veterinary Diagnostic Lab told me about a new poultry/avian vet in Phoenix. Her name is Dr. Stephanie Lamb. Google her name with DVM after it and the practice will come up.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

DePhane, it was such a pleasure meeting you and your husband. I am excited about my mosquito fish and I hope you enjoy those chicks. That white showgirl has been one of my favorites since it hatched. Those little Modern games are the cutest chickens ever! I would love to grab lunch with you if you get back to Tucson and will stop and say hi the next time I'm in Phoenix.

Well, just when we think we have WILL POWER
having my DH on our trip to Tucson for the day, & he see's the game fowl & naked neck silkies from @AZChiknGoddess
he has to have them...
so of course we want something from @desertmarcy & ended up with 4 ameraucana/ road island red mix..
AND salmon feverolls, from @MrsFitzDarcy
plus she threw in a, i think ameraucana. (correction of the chick, in the next post)
@houdiniduck is here picking up their egg's & enjoying a cup of tea in this beautiful weather

 

[ChuskaMtns]

Well I got home from my relaxing evening to find piggy and lacey the gold and silver laced wyandotte sisters in a pile in the run. Benadryl, pedialyte and b vitamins on board... their legs don't work right and they had clear slime coming from their mouths.... they seem to be doing a little better and are in chicken hospital for now... sitting on their legs, but feet are all curled up. Any ideas? I don't know why the photo option isn't showing up on my phone at the moment.

That's signs of heat stress. Their bodies need to be cooled down. I immerse their bodies, up to the neck, in cool water. Give NutriDrench, keep them in a cool, quiet room with access to cool water and feed but no hot feeds (corn, et al). I also give them watermelon and scrambled eggs.

 

[City farm]

Here are some photo's of the new brat's

The babies fell asleep quick.. they all snuggled up together to keep warm.. no light yet, it would get in the way for the photo's. The teens started in on their dust baths right away. .

So precious! I love how you just "had to go pick up more chickens in Tucson"! My dh is not as enabling as yours, he always has to ask me if I added any more chickens. I always answer "of course not" but I have my fingers crossed behind my back and the broodys that go hiding and come back with a bunch of chicks don't count either ;-)

The batch we got is going to be so cool.. I really was done raising chick's.. Maybe I meant to say, "for others" we raised so many for other friend's, plus our new flock.. Our isbar layed her first egg & it is such a neat color.. I forgot to take a photo of it.. @MrsFitzDarcy has it, I do hope it is fertile for her.. Seriously, I think we had 10-12 broodies last year.. Totally chick crazy.. Thought we were done for a while.. But those modern game did both of us in..then of course the showgirl, I mean really what is next in chicken's?? We are on the list for @desertmarcy next batch of dark layers..

 

[City farm]

Interesting chicken trivia, which I'm sure won't surprise anyone here:
Add up all the earth's cats, dogs, pigs, and cows and there would still be more chickens. Toss in every rat on earth and the chicken still dominates. More than 20 billion chickens live on our planet at any given moment, 3 for every human being. The nearest avian competitor is the red-billed quelea, a little African finch numbering a mere 2 billion or so.

I'm sure most of you have read this article. Your trivia reminded me of this;
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ered-the-World.html?device=iphone&device=ipad
With the bird flu (avian) taking out so many chicken's, I have no regrets getting our new ones yesterday.. Most of our current flock is immunine to fowl pox, fowl pox that ran threw our state of Arizona last summer.. Those mosquito's were nasty last year... A dear friend ended up with west Nile from a sting, then it went I to something else.. They were in the hospital for a week plus.. Don't forget that Vector control will give anyone free mosquito fish.. We keep them in glass containers on our patio.. Now to get more of my neighbors to do the same..