Arizona Chickens

[Fishybiz]

here's some pics i took today of them in their brooder, we'll soon move them into a larger brooder..
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looks like mine that are now laying

 

[BlueBaby]

I gave this lone baby Crested Cream Legbar 1/2 of a crumbled up boiled egg tonight. She went crazy for it, and was making a happy trilling noise while she was eating it. She is still doing ok, with no pasty butt. I go in there and sit down off and on and talk to her just so that she will have some sort of company.

 

[Bobby Basham]

the Delawares seem to be doing ok in the heat here in B isbee , they sure can take care of business they are very friendly but wont be pushed around either, but mine are escape artists....lol.... every morning 3 or 4 of them are on my front porch HA waiting for breakfast to arrive so all year i have been trying to find out how they keep doing that...??? when all my other hens are all still locked up tight in their coops from the night before...?? so i have taken to calling them my little brat Houdini hens HA ....lol...
HEY RIGHT ON...!!! that sound great..!!

I envy you folks that have Delawares because their feathering is nice and they have calm and inquisitive dispositions. They were sold out, so I tried to find the other breeds that look similar because I believe in Affirmative Action and wanted an assortment of colors in my flock...LOL.

Anyhoo, I settled for that new cross breed of RAPTOR called the Austra-White. They are very skinny with long legs and very brave.

They are very sensitive to movement, and one goes after my fork (always carry a weapon) with a vengeance while I'm scraping the bedding out of the waterer and feeder. So, I end up in a French fencing match with it and keep shooing it away, but it comes right back. At least it doesn't go for my hand. Then, the mean RIR wants to get in on the action, but I think it wants a piece of me and not the fork. Now we are in a three-way and I have to stab both of them and shoo them over to the other side of the brooder.

Sheesh, what did I get myself into?

 

[Diannastarr]

my color full egg boxes, my jewelry pics got wiped out by mistake, some how i did that....lol.. sorry so im re posting them. just a few pic i was able to find

 

[BlueBaby]

I envy you folks that have Delawares because their feathering is nice and they have calm and inquisitive dispositions. They were sold out, so I tried to find the other breeds that look similar because I believe in Affirmative Action and wanted an assortment of colors in my flock...LOL.

Anyhoo, I settled for that new cross breed of RAPTOR called the Austra-White. They are very skinny with long legs and very brave.

They are very sensitive to movement, and one goes after my fork (always carry a weapon) with a vengeance while I'm scraping the bedding out of the waterer and feeder. So, I end up in a French fencing match with it and keep shooing it away, but it comes right back. At least it doesn't go for my hand. Then, the mean RIR wants to get in on the action, but I think it wants a piece of me and not the fork. Now we are in a three-way and I have to stab both of them and shoo them over to the other side of the brooder.

Sheesh, what did I get myself into?

Bobby and his chick fencing match. Maybe you'll have to write a book about it.

 

[Bobby Basham]

Bobby and his chick fencing match. Maybe you'll have to write a book about it.

You know all hell is gonna break loose again when I have to go in there to transport them to the coop.

 

[BlueBaby]

You know all hell is gonna break loose again when I have to go in there to transport them to the coop.

You have 3 choices when you do move them out there:

1.) You can wait until dark when they can't see to run away or put up as much of a fight to get away. Take them out there and sit them up on the perch.

2.) Move them out there one by one, covering their head and eyes with your hand.

3.) put them in a box that you can close and be careful that the one's that are already inside of the box don't fly out when you are putting the next one in.

 

[Bobby Basham]

You have 3 choices when you do move them out there:

1.) You can wait until dark when they can't see to run away or put up as much of a fight to get away. Take them out there and sit them up on the perch.

2.) Move them out there one by one, covering their head and eyes with your hand.

3.) put them in a box that you can close and be careful that the one's that are already inside of the box don't fly out when you are putting the next one in.

Thanks for the tips. My garage is pitch black, so the time of day doesn't matter. They don't like to be touched, so I'm not putting my hand over their head and eyes because some of them actually BITE, not that little gentle peck they used to do.

 

[BlueBaby]

Thanks for the tips. My garage is pitch black, so the time of day doesn't matter. They don't like to be touched, so I'm not putting my hand over their head and eyes because some of them actually BITE, not that little gentle peck they used to do.

You could use a towel or some sort of rag over their head then, if not your hand. Mine haven't bit me yet when I moved them. I just got 2 of the 8 week old Blue Australorps out of my large wire dog crate the I use for my chick grow out pen yesterday afternoon when @Zchickens1269 came here to get them. I got them out then handed them to her to put in her box that she brought. My rooster was watching but never bothered us.

 

[Diannastarr]

I envy you folks that have Delawares because their feathering is nice and they have calm and inquisitive dispositions. They were sold out, so I tried to find the other breeds that look similar because I believe in Affirmative Action and wanted an assortment of colors in my flock...LOL.

Anyhoo, I settled for that new cross breed of RAPTOR called the Austra-White. They are very skinny with long legs and very brave.

They are very sensitive to movement, and one goes after my fork (always carry a weapon) with a vengeance while I'm scraping the bedding out of the waterer and feeder. So, I end up in a French fencing match with it and keep shooing it away, but it comes right back. At least it doesn't go for my hand. Then, the mean RIR wants to get in on the action, but I think it wants a piece of me and not the fork. Now we are in a three-way and I have to stab both of them and shoo them over to the other side of the brooder.

Sheesh, what did I get myself into?

are you looking for more birds...? i got Colombian wyandotts pic below first because they sure are the eye candy , but are just med layers 180 to 260 eggs a year plus they were winner of the worlds fair in the US, i think during the turn of the century , they are sweet beautiful and good tempered, i have to tell you the Delewares do bite, not all of them but just a few , bite when i try to get the eggs ,so you can put on gloves to save from the bites ,a but about the Colombian wyandotts i didn't get any more because i needed more eggs so instead i went for the Delawares with that same similar coloring & because they are better layers for my egg business, they are tough birds and escape artists ..lol... so if your not concerned with the amount of eggs you will get i highly recommend Colombian wyandotts if you like the coloring on the Delawares , the Colombian wyandotts look the same , but the Colombian wyandotts are even more freaken gorgeous . and this Colombian wyandott hen below , her name is eye candy...lol...