Arizona Chickens

[cactusrota]

@cactusrota my husband seems to be slightly charmed by these girls
I can see adding more pullets to my flock which I want to cross with my Australorp roo. He came from @BlueBaby and his dad is big sweet boy. I'm in love! Kazoo has a similar personality. I think I want to get some pullets with the double NN gene in the future to cross with him and see what I get. Not sure how the mottling would affect that? I have a lot to learn!

I can certainly put you on the top of the list for future double gene birds that are the wrong color for my projects.. Also, though, even if you can just get a single gene rooster, if both parents are donating one gene, you can get double gene offspring.

 

[BlueBaby]

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I'm pooped! Went to get these two beautiful girls from beyond the other side of the valley, gorgeous country out there, dropped 6 other birds off @ a friends and we've been home about an hour. Naming these girls Nyx and Nova

So that's what your 2 new molted NN hen's look like? What did your hubby think of my big blue boy?

 

[BlueBaby]

I can certainly put you on the top of the list for future double gene birds that are the wrong color for my projects.. Also, though, even if you can just get a single gene rooster, if both parents are donating one gene, you can get double gene offspring.

Sorry to pop in on this one, but that is good to know about if both parents have a single gene. Thank's for the info @cactusrota

 

[DesertChic]

@cactusrota my husband seems to be slightly charmed by these girls
I can see adding more pullets to my flock which I want to cross with my Australorp roo. He came from @BlueBaby and his dad is big sweet boy. I'm in love! Kazoo has a similar personality. I think I want to get some pullets with the double NN gene in the future to cross with him and see what I get. Not sure how the mottling would affect that? I have a lot to learn!

For the record, NN + Australorp crosses are FANTASTIC! And given that you're starting with such high quality stock from @BlueBaby you really can't go wrong. I may have already shared this, but here's a photo of the NN/Aussie rooster I used to have:

 

[Diannastarr]

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I love that I have neighbors with farm animals. I chuckle when the goat belonging to my nearest neighbor starts "talking" or I hear a more distant neighbor's horses neighing and playing with their bells. Another neighbor's roosters crow like crazy, sometimes triggering mine to crow back, and another neighbor's ducks quack happily around dusk. I will take the sounds of the country over the sounds of the city any day, and I wasn't even raised in the country. I spent so much of my life in the rat race, and now I spend my time making healthy soil, growing healthy chickens and produce, and actually enjoying life instead of flying through it at breakneck speed. I've found my little patch of peace in a chaotic world, and I've no intention of surrendering it to those who simply prove incapable of appreciating the beauty of true freedom.

I SECOND THAT , i was born in NYC and progressed to living in CT on a 350 acre farm in a town with 1000 people, on my farm i raised Arabians & thoroughbred horses of Secretariat racing blood lines then i built my own home at the top of the largest water falls in new England were i raised my 5 kids in a 2000 acre Forrest, in the house i built with my own 2 hands and we all lived there very happy along with all our animals ,horses, dogs , cats, bunnies geese, goats, chickens, a cow pigs & my parrot BURT plus any other animals that came along & needed a good home , i split wood all winter & cooked & heated the house with my 100 year old french wood kitchen stove, dang i wish i had my kitchen wood stove back i loved cooking on it ...! then my health began to decline and i had to sell it all and move to a warmer climate , at first i tried to live in FL for 5 years ,but to many chemical , bugs & humanity for me & HA then i became allergic to FL, so i decided to travel all over the country and look for the place that felt like home , so we went any were i wanted to go, i home schooled my youngest child , all my kids are very bright and are all well off & actually richer then me...lol.. thank goodness for that, so we traveled every place we ever wanted to see, thats how we ended up in Bisbee AZ , but for most of my life i was a total country person , a farmer from NYC but never a hick ...lol... so we found that Bisbee was a really nice little town with nice people, who get along well , so we decided to stay , and i paid cash for the place we have now & then got a larger place just down the road thats paid infull to..! i dont like banks..!!!! so i would never have a mortgage ..! id rather pay cash , that way you really own your home...! i have a lot of people tell me they love my chickens & my neighbor told me she loves hearing my roos...lol.... go figure that ....lol.. ??? HA so i found the best place for me , its not completely out on a lot of land & remote like what i thought in wanted , but its just a hop skip & a jump from the main town at one mile hi in the mountains , out in the county , so no complaints here and i love hearing the donkey up the street..!! braying HA he reminds me of my farm , my parrot BURT he is 42 years old now & loves talking to his new chickens on his new farm ...lol..

 

[igorsMistress]

For the record, NN + Australorp crosses are FANTASTIC! And given that you're starting with such high quality stock from @BlueBaby you really can't go wrong. I may have already shared this, but here's a photo of the NN/Aussie rooster I used to have:

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I don't recall seeing a pic of that guy before, very pretty boy.

My goal would B/B/S for coloring with the naked necks and the higher egg yield of the Australorps. My biggest goal is heat tolerance and since both breeds are good for that I figured crossing would work.

This is all new to me of course so we will see how it goes.

 

[BlueBaby]

I don't recall seeing a pic of that guy before, very pretty boy.

My goal would B/B/S for coloring with the naked necks and the higher egg yield of the Australorps. My biggest goal is heat tolerance and since both breeds are good for that I figured crossing would work.

This is all new to me of course so we will see how it goes.

That's what I already started trying to do. I bet you fell in love with my little blue NN-Australorp chick that I showed you when you were here. Nice dark legs and eye color.

 

[igorsMistress]

That's what I already started trying to do. I bet you fell in love with my little blue NN-Australorp chick that I showed you when you were here. Nice dark legs and eye color.

Yes, your baby is adorable but I'm in love with your sweet roo He almost looked like he was smiling yesterday

I just want to do this for my own backyard flock project as something to do when someone goes broody. I'm not hatching eggs too much hassle for me.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes, your baby is adorable but I'm in love with your sweet roo He almost looked like he was smiling yesterday

I just want to do this for my own backyard flock project as something to do when someone goes broody. I'm not hatching eggs too much hassle for me.

You'd smile too if you were a roo and all of the sudden some more girls showed up in your coop. I hope that you were able to get some sleep.

I'll have to start marking my eggs or start using both of my incubators to keep the pure Australorps, the NN's, and my mixes separate when I do any more future hatches towards spring. I sort of need to recoup right now with what I have, and decide who is going to go with who.

 

[Bobby Basham]

For the record, NN + Australorp crosses are FANTASTIC! And given that you're starting with such high quality stock from @BlueBaby you really can't go wrong. I may have already shared this, but here's a photo of the NN/Aussie rooster I used to have:

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Are you folks referring to a NN Roo over an Australorp hen? What would the opposite yield? Just curious. --BB