Arizona Chickens

[Diannastarr]

Well, those 2 Austra-White chicks that I hatched out are doing ok. I moved those 2 and 3 of the pure Australorp chicks outside 3 days ago into a large wire dog crate. I was just out there checking on them all, and they are doing ok. My next door neighbor who I got those 2 white eggs from (the one that the dog's killed all of their hens) would like to get those 2 chicks from me in a couple more weeks after they clean up all the weeds in the yard. They will be bringing me another bag of chick feed tomorrow for the chicks out there in my pen.

YES that is the chicks you hatched out from their birds killed by dogs ,so then how are they doing after their house burned down i bet they are really busy getting every thing all back together..? i hope they repaired the gate..? gosh how bad that was that they lost all their chickens to dogs so yeah,you at least saved those 2 eggs , from their dead white leg horns that had lucky bred to your show quality australorp roos..! and so they now have some nice Austra-White and at least they will be next door so you will be able to see if the those Austra-Whites are good in that heat over your way..?? and that would be my main interest in the Austra-Whites, to create a true heat resistant chicken beside the only other one i know of is the NN /turkins for hot places like AZ ,

Maybe we can still look around for a breeder who has the White Leghorn pullets locally? Are you planning on doing the Austra-Whites, too?

yes good idea , so i was thinking of going to the gram fair just to look around to see who had white leg horns its not that far from Bisbee.

They like us, when our kids don't!

hehehe yeah aint that the truth....lol...

 

[Diannastarr]

Seen her, IDK

hehehe ....lol... is she like the lady who walked down the street and turned into a store...lol.. get it she turned into a store....lol...

 

[Diannastarr]

Sounds like fun, only I will have to drive 2 hrs. Prescott has a very small fair.

my goodness you know i always wanted to live in prescott..!! its more the climate i like , we use to stay in our motor coach in wickenburg at the escapees its really freaken hot there...!!!! so every day we had to escaped to prescott for the cool...!!!!!

 

[BlueBaby]

YES that is the chicks you hatched out from their birds killed by dogs ,so then how are they doing after their house burned down i bet they are really busy getting every thing all back together..? i hope they repaired the gate..? gosh how bad that was that they lost all their chickens to dogs so yeah,you at least saved those 2 eggs , from their dead white leg horns that had lucky bred to your show quality australorp roos..! and so they now have some nice Austra-White and at least they will be next door so you will be able to see if the those Austra-Whites are good in that heat over your way..?? and that would be my main interest in the Austra-Whites, to create a true heat resistant chicken beside the only other one i know of is the NN /turkins for hot places like AZ ,
yes good idea , so i was thinking of going to the gram fair just to look around to see who had white leg horns its not that far from Bisbee.

Yes, those are the 2 chicks I hatched out from those 2 eggs of their White Leghorn hens. They still don't have a replacement house from the insurance. They are living in their RV's for the time being. I think that they haven't fixed the fence yet neither. They said that they want to clean the yard from all of the weeds that grew up from all of the rain from the monsoon before they take the chicks, and after they do take them, they will be kept in one of the pens that one of the surviving roosters is currently in until they are bigger. They still want to get rid of the Australorp roosters (1 Splash, and 1 Blue). I'm trying to talk them into letting Tom have them for eating bugs in his yard, so that they don't end up going to someone who will use them with fighting cocks. Too bad no one will be using them to continue the breeding.

 

[Diannastarr]

Yes, those are the 2 chicks I hatched out from those 2 eggs of their White Leghorn hens. They still don't have a replacement house from the insurance. They are living in their RV's for the time being. I think that they haven't fixed the fence yet neither. They said that they want to clean the yard from all of the weeds that grew up from all of the rain from the monsoon before they take the chicks, and after they do take them, they will be kept in one of the pens that one of the surviving roosters is currently in until they are bigger. They still want to get rid of the Australorp roosters (1 Splash, and 1 Blue). I'm trying to talk them into letting Tom have them for eating bugs in his yard, so that they don't end up going to someone who will use them with fighting cocks. Too bad no one will be using them to continue the breeding.

yes we should do what we can to save those 2 sweet rare colored Aussie roos from any bad end, im sure if others knew they were available , they would find a good new home. but no way would they be good fighters at all..!!! so tom is your friend and he would take the 2 roos, that sounds like the best idea so far..!

 

[Parront]

hehehe ....lol... is she like the lady who walked down the street and turned into a store...lol.. get it she turned into a store....lol...

Yuck yuck

 

[cactusrota]

Can't remember if I mentioned this before... Bought some Bresse eggs from a local guy last month, and ordered some naked necked eggs off ebay so I could incubate them at the same time.
I don't have room in the house so had to keep the incubator in the mews (kinda like a covered porch) outside. The roof is tin so it turned out it was getting hotter out there than I realized and I was having to crack the incubator door open during the day to keep it from overheating, and put extra water in it to prevent too low of humidity. There were still three separate temperature spikes of 107 to 110 either because the door wasn't open far enough, or not soon enough in the morning, and for I don't know how long, etc... And I was sure I had cooked the eggs, but candled them afterwards and still saw movement, so unless it was obviously dead I left them in the full time to see if any make it.
Well, these birds are some tough troopers!! They're all like "what heat? f*** that, I do what I want!"
So far I've got 13 hatched and a 14th working on it (out of 19 eggs total). That's a 70% hatch rate! Plus they hatched two days early. They weren't due until tomorrow, so I had just stopped turning them the day before. These are some hardcore birds, I tell u whut!!!

Also, I think I got a bonus light Brahma...

 

[cactusrota]

The naked necked eggs are "due" to hatch on Tuesday... we'll see what happens.

 

[Parront]

Can't remember if I mentioned this before... Bought some Bresse eggs from a local guy last month, and ordered some naked necked eggs off ebay so I could incubate them at the same time.
I don't have room in the house so had to keep the incubator in the mews (kinda like a covered porch) outside. The roof is tin so it turned out it was getting hotter out there than I realized and I was having to crack the incubator door open during the day to keep it from overheating, and put extra water in it to prevent too low of humidity. There were still three separate temperature spikes of 107 to 110 either because the door wasn't open far enough, or not soon enough in the morning, and for I don't know how long, etc... And I was sure I had cooked the eggs, but candled them afterwards and still saw movement, so unless it was obviously dead I left them in the full time to see if any make it.
Well, these birds are some tough troopers!! They're all like "what heat? f*** that, I do what I want!"
So far I've got 13 hatched and a 14th working on it (out of 19 eggs total). That's a 70% hatch rate! Plus they hatched two days early. They weren't due until tomorrow, so I had just stopped turning them the day before. These are some hardcore birds, I tell u whut!!!
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Also, I think I got a bonus light Brahma...
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Wow, I would have thought that the Bresse would be more delicate-- aren't they imported from France? I read about them, and they seemed too expensive and delicate for me, I have had regular Orpingtons and Leghorns, with a couple of sex-link thrown in, in the past. (Except, not counting non-chicken birds, multitudes of Cockatiels, pet sparrow, now Dylan the parrot). I will be interested in how those do in AZ!

 

[BlueBaby]

hehehe ....lol... is she like the lady who walked down the street and turned into a store...lol.. get it she turned into a store....lol...

That reminded me of years ago when I used to live in New Orleans. There was an old lady there named Ruthie, and everyone just called her the Duck Lady. Anyways, she would always be on a pair of roller skates going down Bourbon Street, with some little baby ducks running along behind her trying to keep up!