Arizona Chickens

[bunsnpupsnchick]

Thanks for the link. I actually bookmarked them a while ago, but so far I'm pretty happy with how my NNs are turning out. Their coloring may be unconventional for many, but their egg laying, build and temperaments have been fantastic, and now I'm beginning to focus on breeding my pure line (as opposed to my NN crosses) to SOP. This year's goal is to breed my birds to get some white NNs. I LOVE white NNs.

This is one of my meat breeding NNs, Simon:

I like how he looks. Colorful & interesting with the barring.

 

[Banaynaychicken]

I've been searching for some help/information & coming up empty. I was wondering if anyone had experienced this with one of their birds before....a hard bump on the beak just below the comb. I just had Mr Lola (Lola til discovered it was a boy) brought back to me since the gentleman who had him can't have roosters & the bump was there. Everything that I can find points to possible injury or infection or similar. I've been putting the Hen Healer stuff on it since Monday when he came back. I'm wondering if maybe I should be using a drawing salve instead. He's doing fine, eating, drinking, crowing, & doesn't seem bothered by it. It's attached though an edge looks like it's very slightly lifted.

Thoughts?

I've had this on numeral birds before, all of my hens had it and then it fell off and they were normal again, but this nes a lot bigger than the ones my hens had.

could be a calcium deposit maybe?

 

[Banaynaychicken]

hhhhhhhuuuuuu Im so excited for this weekend!

Going to be doing my first real bird show (since fair was a bust >.>) , and my dad is going to go, and I get to drive, and i'll be getting 3 new Buff Laced Polish babies, and hopefully gonna win some prizesssssssssssssssssssss

so

friggin

HAPPY!

and a weekend full of fun costs what, $15?

$30 at the most if I decide to go to Quicktrip for a hot pocket and some 50 cent refills in a QT cup.

I LOOOOVVVVEEE QT.




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Okay so @Agarrard check out this goofball. I had him in the class the other day when I was giving him pomegranates, and he was totally falling asleep like this. was hilarious.

such a doofus <3

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

I've had this on numeral birds before, all of my hens had it and then it fell off and they were normal again, but this nes a lot bigger than the ones my hens had.

could be a calcium deposit maybe?

I don't think so, it's not hard on the inside...it's softer. Closer to blood, puss, yucky stuff going solid. I'm still doing the hen healer & slowly using a pin head to scrape little bits off. It hasn't been growing back, at so far it doesn't look like it. & I think it might be shrinking a bit. Probably imagining that. lol Still, I think I might be onto something.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

hhhhhhhuuuuuu Im so excited for this weekend!

Going to be doing my first real bird show (since fair was a bust >.>) , and my dad is going to go, and I get to drive, and i'll be getting 3 new Buff Laced Polish babies, and hopefully gonna win some prizesssssssssssssssssssss

so

friggin

HAPPY!

and a weekend full of fun costs what, $15?

$30 at the most if I decide to go to Quicktrip for a hot pocket and some 50 cent refills in a QT cup.

I LOOOOVVVVEEE QT.




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Okay so @Agarrard check out this goofball. I had him in the class the other day when I was giving him pomegranates, and he was totally falling asleep like this. was hilarious.

such a doofus <3

Get the hot pockets on your way to the show.

Don't you just love when they do that? Though he does seem to have the "hey, I'm trying to nap here" look.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, my first chick in Group #2 is trying to hatch out now. More blue baby Australorp chicks are on the way! Yes, I will have some for sale if someone wants any.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

Well, my first chick in Group #2 is trying to hatch out now. More blue baby Australorp chicks are on the way! Yes, I will have some for sale if someone wants any.

Congrats!

 

[BlueBaby]

Congrats!

Thank you! Now there are 4 out of the 9 in group #2 that are partially out of the shells.

 

[azchickens14]

Thank you! Now there are 4 out of the 9 in group #2 that are partially out of the shells.

I love living vicariously through your hatches. Its SO exciting!!!

 

[Sill]

Thank you for the information about those!

I've seen some that aren't clear that state they're rated for 25 years I think..some kind of solar things, but I wasn't sure if they'd really be any better. This just give me more reason to go with metal...which I always prefer cause I love how it looks & ages!

I have fiberglass panels that let in some light, but they let in heat too. Metal would have been better.

Anyone have any idea why my ameraucana/ee girls just laid white(ish) eggs?! Not joking here....does diet impact it? Too much protein, not enough calcium, something else? I know it's not another white layer as I saw those girls in the nest box & my white layers are all small or bantam sized. Plus with 1 of the eggs there's a small spot that under light has color like it should be. The other doesn't have that.

The eggs I currently have separated out. The single is a sultan I believe, the 4 light eggs are my bantam cochin, the 11 brown are my gold sex-link, the next goups of 3 are crevecoeur &/polish, the group of blue/green/blue-green are the 3 ameraucana/ee, the last group is my black crested white polish (project color). So I pretty much know who's laying what & can identify by shape/size. I know that my darker hen lays the blue/bluer colored egg, but which of the other 2 do the others I'm not certain.

I can try for better pics if wanted. I've a terrible time capturing their correct egg color.



This is the closeup of their eggs. It kind of went white.

That's the thing with EEs, they can lay any color egg. I have one that lays true blue, another sage green. They do get paler as the season progresses so they can look almost white.

Thanks for the link. I actually bookmarked them a while ago, but so far I'm pretty happy with how my NNs are turning out. Their coloring may be unconventional for many, but their egg laying, build and temperaments have been fantastic, and now I'm beginning to focus on breeding my pure line (as opposed to my NN crosses) to SOP. This year's goal is to breed my birds to get some white NNs. I LOVE white NNs.

This is one of my meat breeding NNs, Simon:

He's beautiful! Is he mixed with Bielefelder?