Arizona Chickens

[SonoranChick]

Need a couple more of them? Want to make a trip here? I have 2 of the Australorp girls here that should be coming up on POL in a couple more months. One is a Black, and one is a Blue from the same hatch.

Not yet, although I appreciate your offer We are expanding our chicken area to include the garden and another tree. When this is complete I will be able to add to my crew, and I'm going local this time around. I think it just makes more sense. You all have talked me into trying NNs and I love my australorp more everyday! Today she just let me hold her and she closed her eyes for a while, so calm and relaxed.

 

[BlueBaby]

Not yet, although I appreciate your offer We are expanding our chicken area to include the garden and another tree. When this is complete I will be able to add to my crew, and I'm going local this time around. I think it just makes more sense. You all have talked me into trying NNs and I love my australorp more everyday! Today she just let me hold her and she closed her eyes for a while, so calm and relaxed.

Well, I will be having more of the NN's, and the NN/Australorp mixes coming as soon as the girls get back to laying. I also have 2 more Blue Australorp chicks still in the brooder trying to figure out if they are boy's or girl's yet.

I think that I might have started something over here about the molting and all of these feather's.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feather-crafts-anyone.1214139/

 

[Diannastarr]

No girls right now since I need the eggs, but how about this cockerel?
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Monroe is my only splash, and he gets hugs multiple times per day. He just loves to be held. He's heterozygous NN/EE cross and is a strong carrier of the blue egg gene.

BLUE EGGS yes thats very nice & he looks very sweet , can you sent me a full stright on head shot pic , i dont like the big combs, I likea pes or just a bit larger then a pea comb ,so i just wanted to check that his comb is the smaller kind if not a pea comb...!! i love his name , sooo cute

 

[DesertChic]

BLUE EGGS yes thats very nice & he looks very sweet , can you sent me a full stright on head shot pic , i dont like the big combs, I likea pes or just a bit larger then a pea comb ,so i just wanted to check that his comb is the smaller kind if not a pea comb...!! i love his name , sooo cute

The comb is large and floppy. I'm actually planning to breed him to a few of my other girls. Not only may the offspring have better combs (hopefully), but he should help produce a line of blues which I can then cross to create blue, black and splash. Maybe once I breed all of those guys I'll have produced what you want.

 

[Diannastarr]

my girls won't eat those feather fixers, it smells horrible too i gave it to the wild rabbits and birds lol i forgot about chick starter until it was too late, but some girls went through the molt super fast while others are taking their time... glad everyone's doing ok though

good your flock is doing well...!! i did buy that feather fixers once last year , but this year i just skipped over all of those ready mixed feeds ,i feel they just meet standards that are just a tiny bit higher then any regular layer or flock raiser feeds, and i got a hi protein 24% chick feed , i mix in some show bird conditioner , from mana pro, that way i can control what my girls are getting , and then i ferment grains & seeds , plus also sprout barley wheat & oats plus any other grains i can get , then mix all in equal amounts except for the show bird conditioner, i add that in by directions on the bag , plus fruits and vegies , greens and what ever that i have left over .

 

[Diannastarr]

The comb is large and floppy. I'm actually planning to breed him to a few of my other girls. Not only may the offspring have better combs (hopefully), but he should help produce a line of blues which I can then cross to create blue, black and splash. Maybe once I breed all of those guys I'll have produced what you want.

wow ok thats sounds great im willing to wait for one of you beatuiful NN and hopefully several of your beautiful NN's.! so any bird that comes here will live a happy healthy long life...!! with lots of love and great food...!they all become my beloved pets

 

[Diannastarr]

The comb is large and floppy. I'm actually planning to breed him to a few of my other girls. Not only may the offspring have better combs (hopefully), but he should help produce a line of blues which I can then cross to create blue, black and splash. Maybe once I breed all of those guys I'll have produced what you want.

Excellent...!!!

 

[SonoranChick]

Hey guys I am a bit worried about my little white leghorn, Lady. She is 7 months old and since week 18, she has been giving me nice big eggs every single day. She never takes a day off. This morning I got my usual egg. This afternoon I happened to be in the coop when I noticed her walking like she was constipated, and leaking a clear liquid. All of a sudden a rubber egg popped out, which was immediately devoured by everyone before I could even get it. I figured this was the end of it, but about 30 minutes later, she started walking funny again. I watched as a mini rubber egg (seemed to be just the yolk this time) came out. I grabbed it and threw it in the garden. She went about her business as if nothing had happened.
So she produced THREE eggs today?! How is this physically possible, and should I supplement her diet or anything?

 

[meetthebubus]

she still a really young layer, all sorts of weird laying can occur, i only worry about the first with the runny-ness but if she kept discarding i think it is fine, and i wouldn't think a broken shell is still in her vent, my opinion is to make sure the vent is clear and offer calcium like oyster shells if you aren't already.

hens will often have several eggs in process in their system and things can get crossed for a new hen and they can lay really large eggs, double yolks, mini eggs, eggs with a soft shell, etc but they will grow out of this and for my girls, after their first molt they are laying the most gorgeous perfect eggs ever!

 

[Diannastarr]

Too bad there isn't anyone that I know who has some type of feather hobby that could use all of these feather's.

hi blue baby , i had a guy tell me that the people who make those fancy fish hooks, the kind that have the feathers on them , i guess all the men will know what they are called , i remember my grand dad he made them , i dont know what they are called , but people who have this kind of hobby or business they might want to do buy feathers, o yes now i remember wile looking up the history of the whiting true blue, thats a breed of chicken that lays blue eggs, a Dr. Tom Whiting, a poultry geneticist specializing in developing feathers for the fly-fishing industry, developed the Whiting True Blue. ... They will breed true for egg color, but will segregate into a myriad of plumage colors.i