Arizona Chickens

[FeatherPugs]

So I've been feeding fermented feed for about a week now. My chickens turn their noses up at it!! They peck here and there but its not interesting to them at all. Now if I just wet their other feed they really seem to love it. I'm sure I'll save feed just doing the wet feed too but so many tout the benefits of fermented feed. So its fermented no.....wet yes. Thoughts??

 

[DesertChic]

So I've been feeding fermented feed for about a week now. My chickens turn their noses up at it!! They peck here and there but its not interesting to them at all. Now if I just wet their other feed they really seem to love it. I'm sure I'll save feed just doing the wet feed too but so many tout the benefits of fermented feed. So its fermented no.....wet yes. Thoughts??

During the warmer months the feed I give them is most definitely wet, but rarely fermented because it will spoil too quickly. I know that the standard fermentation instructions advise letting the feed ferment for three days, but that just isn't very feasible here in the desert. Instead of getting fermented feed I get moldy feed, and I won't give that to the chickens...not that they'd eat it anyway. My compromise has been to add probiotics to their wet feed, whether via a small amount of yogurt/kefir or in powdered form, and rotate other additives like chili pepper flakes, apple cider vinegar, and even cinnamon, all of which have their own health benefits. So I guess I vote "wet" over fermented.

 

[azchickens14]

Woo-hoo! My velcro rooster collar works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chang the rooster is now safe (and much quieter). He's also molting. How long does it take for them to be finished and start growing feathers back?

Yay! Which one did you buy/make?

 

[generaldsherman]

Yay! Which one did you buy/make?

made one out of 2" Velcro

 

[generaldsherman]

I have a few extra chicks for sale if anyone is looking for some. Right now I have a 2 week or so old Orpington, not sure of color but think it's a pullet. Also have a silver leghorn pullet, maybe 1 week old. I have a salmon faverolles, 1 week old, that i may want to sell as it looks like it is a cockerel. Should have a couple extra mixed breed bantam chicks, straight run, and hopefully a few extra BBS Ameraucana chicks in a few days.

 

[BlueBaby]

The way that my chicken run has been made to keep out coyotes and neighborhood dogs that run loose, my hubby came up with the idea. He used some horse panels that we were not using. He dug a trench the size of the length of the panels. Then we placed them into the trench where they would go about 1 foot below the ground surface. then we attached some of that no-climb welded wire over the outside of the horse panels also extending below the ground level, but you could also cover it with smaller opening wire, too. By having it below the surface, if the dogs or coyotes try to dig their way in, the sharp edges at the bottom will discourage them quick. The chickens stay safe!

 

[BackyardMarana]

My hens are laying fertile eggs and I am selling a dozen for $7 or $11 if you want a single color .
My rooster is a blue favaucana (blue egg gene ) he is huge and calm
My hens are
Wheaton ameraucanas
Buff Orpington
New hampshire red
Easter eggers -2 of them are blue
Black favaucana
3 mixed hens
Black astolorp
Buff laced polish
And a trio of splash marans I might put an egg or two in every dozen .I collect blue,green,white,tan,dark brown,brown the dozen will be a nice assortment .I have hatched out many of these eggs and the chick are gorgeous.let me know if tou interested thank for reading .

 

[Bobby Basham]

Does anyone sell sexlinks that don't come from the big commercial hatcheries? From all the reading I've done, they're real egg laying machines but tend to burn out around two years of age. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

 

[City farm]

Yay! Which one did you buy/make?

made one out of 2" Velcro

We used the Velcro and cut to size, worked great..

Does anyone sell sexlinks that don't come from the big commercial hatcheries?  From all the reading I've done, they're real egg laying machines but tend to burn out around two years of age. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

Nope , sorry.. Updated photos of your chicken palace?

Does anyone else find themselves talking to their chicks like they are going to respond?? I've been doing it for a while and just now realized. 

Yes, & I keep thinking I would teaches them "bug" & "treat" in other languages so when the neighbor hears me they would think I was bilingual!

My daughters dog killed our favorite chicken today. So sad, but it is good because now we are going to build a better run. I'm still not sure how she got out.

Does anyone have pictures of how they made their chicken run? I just want them to have a safe place to go outside where this dog can't reach them.

 

[City farm]

The way that my chicken run has been made to keep out coyotes and neighborhood dogs that run loose, my hubby came up with the idea. He used some horse panels that we were not using. He dug a trench the size of the length of the panels. Then we placed them into the trench where they would go about 1 foot below the ground surface. then we attached some of that no-climb welded wire over the outside of the horse panels also extending below the ground level, but you could also cover it with smaller opening wire, too. By having it below the surface, if the dogs or coyotes try to dig their way in, the sharp edges at the bottom will discourage them quick. The chickens stay safe!

Oh do show us some photo's