Arizona Chickens

[Sill]

Guess what!! Yes, finally one of the Clones laid an egg the other day. Both green eggs are from the bielefelder mixes. Beautiful green colored egg. I'm so excited. The one on the right is a oopps egg from the other bielefelder. .still pretty color.

I'm so happy with the colors you got from those girls!

 

[Sill]

I also had a first time layer! My black copper Marans pullet laid her first egg, and it's a big one for a pullet's first.

 

[MagicChicken]

Hi every one

I had 15 chicken, just pass summer deal with the heat, 2 of them dead when heat up to 114.
Now I need to learn how to deal in this winter, I am at mesa I60 and country club.
Please give me some advise what to do a head when the cool come in.
current I have 13 chicken, it too many for me every day i got about 10 egg, I like to sale some of them to some one who like to have chicken egg.
4 of them 10 month old, the rest 8 months old.
I don't want to kill or eat what i have been taking care when they was baby chick.
the chicken make to much noise when they see me that is silver wyandotte, I will sale them first

Regarding what to do with the birds when it gets cold, that depends on your coop setup. As long as the birds are in a well-ventilated space and protected from direct drafts (wind), they should be fine. Ventilation is key. If the space is too closed up there will be a lot of condensation inside the coop, which is not good. If you find you are getting condensation in the coop add more ventilation, especially near the top and bottom. Chickens usually have more problems with heat than they do with cold. You do not need to heat the coop if your birds are fully feathered. Young birds that aren't fully feathered are a different story - they need a heated area available as an option if they get too cold. But your birds are grown out and should be fine as long as the coop is sufficiently ventilated.

 

[flower]

Regarding what to do with the birds when it gets cold, that depends on your coop setup. As long as the birds are in a well-ventilated space and protected from direct drafts (wind), they should be fine. Ventilation is key. If the space is too closed up there will be a lot of condensation inside the coop, which is not good. If you find you are getting condensation in the coop add more ventilation, especially near the top and bottom. Chickens usually have more problems with heat than they do with cold. You do not need to heat the coop if your birds are fully feathered. Young birds that aren't fully feathered are a different story - they need a heated area available as an option if they get too cold. But your birds are grown out and should be fine as long as the coop is sufficiently ventilated.

Up here in the North the winter temperatures freeze the flock's water. My birds are housed in a large space with wide open screened windows. They are long lived and healthy. Think of the tiny songbirds which can bee seen sitting on the electric and telephone wires during very cold weather. Heat is a different problem.

 

[moms3cuties]

I also had a first time layer! My black copper Marans pullet laid her first egg, and it's a big one for a pullet's first.

Exciting .....seems like that ones a lighter brown egg or is that an olive egger? I guess that is brown..... Chickles still seems to be kind of sickly and I'm looking up oil of Oregano on our site and over the Internet to see how many drops to add to her water or to dilute it in some coconut oil and give it to her directly and her beak, if you will. My daughters heartbroken as this was one of the chicks she adopted two years ago on Mother's Day. BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Feeding & Watering Your Flock › Oregano oil for chickens

 

[moms3cuties]

I just found some wonderful information on Oregano Oil in the use of chickens!!
apparently it works good on worms and seems to help in peafowl too. Here's the info as I dont know how to copy the link on this! Sorry!

In BYC look up ........ Oregano oil works for cocci and worms, it works!

 

[MagicChicken]

Quote:
So true about the tiny songbirds. I love to see them all puffed out on those cold mornings. We've even had hummingbirds survive hard freezes here, down into the mid-teens. Amazing.

The water freezes in my coop/run, too. Usually not a solid freeze. Just an ice layer over the top. Usually the birds can chip through it. When we get hard freezes the birds can't get through the ice in the morning. I take out a kettle of boiling water and pour a small amount over the ice in the water founts. Doesn't take much to melt it. When we're expecting a really hard freeze I add those black rubber water bowls you get at the feed store. (They double as chicken wading pools in the summer.) It's easy to kick through the ice in those.

We're lucky here in Tucson. It can freeze at night but is usually above freezing during the day. Once I deal with the ice in the morning, the water containers usually don't refreeze until the next cold night. I'd probably put the water fount on a small heater on a thermostat if I lived in a colder area.

 

[flower]

@MagicChicken POSTED "When we get hard freezes the birds can't get through the ice in the morning. I take out a kettle of boiling water and pour a small amount over the ice in the water founts. Doesn't take much to melt it."

That is exactly what I do. Turn on the kettle when I get the coffee started. Never having been to Tucson, I had no idea that nights were as cold as freezing. Here the elevation is 5K feet. I need to look up the facts on Southern AZ

 

[Rebeccaofwaioli]

Looking for at least 4 more laying hens to supplement a growing foster family's egg production. They already have some layers, but with more kids they could use more eggs. Please let me know if you have laying hens available for $10 or less each. South Phoenix area or down towards Coolidge and Casa Grande.

 

[Sill]

Exciting

.....seems like that ones a lighter brown egg or is that an olive egger? I guess that is brown.....

Chickles still seems to be kind of sickly and I'm looking up oil of Oregano on our site
and over the Internet to see how many drops to add to her water or to dilute it in some coconut oil and give it to her directly and her beak, if you will. My daughters heartbroken as this was one of the chicks she adopted two years ago on Mother's Day.

BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Feeding & Watering Your Flock › Oregano oil for chickens

It's from my black copper marans pullet I got from you. Her eggs are getting darker with each lay. Now she's giving an egg a day so I'm happy.

Sorry about your daughter's chicken. I hope she gets better with the Oregano oil.