Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

I've been having trouble keeping up with chicken care. Plus I will be traveling a lot over the next couple of years and the neighbor who takes care of my place while I'm gone is having health issues. He can't handle the chickens any more. So I have to find new homes for them fairly quickly and I won't be getting any more for at least a couple of years. Makes me sad. But it is time.

If anyone is interested in taking any birds, let me know.

Good luck with your travel plans, and in finding a place for all of your flock. I already have 27 in my flock over here, so I don't have any room right now. I guess that I need to start selling some, too?

By the way... Have you thought about posting your chickens over in the Buy, Sell, and Trade section here? I have noticed that not all of the AZ. people even post over here in our states thread, so I don't even know if they will read your post here in this thread or not about them. Recently I did run across a couple of our people over in another thread and invited them here to this one.

 

[cactusrota]

I've been having trouble keeping up with chicken care. Plus I will be traveling a lot over the next couple of years and the neighbor who takes care of my place while I'm gone is having health issues. He can't handle the chickens any more. So I have to find new homes for them fairly quickly and I won't be getting any more for at least a couple of years. Makes me sad. But it is time.

If anyone is interested in taking any birds, let me know.

That's too bad. I've been there and will probably be there again someday as my hubby doesn't like being tied down and is eventually going to try to drag me around again. I really don't want to, though.
If you're on fb there's a couple really good AZ poultry groups there with great people that could give your kids good homes. I can hook you up if you want.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Went and pulled 70! eggs from the broody broads last evening. 42 of then showed signs of development at various stages so I plunked them in the 'bator. Worst case scenario, they all go in the trash July 5th I suppose.

Still missing all the ameraucauna eggs. Don't know if she's just on strike or stashing them.

 

[cactusrota]

Went and pulled 70! eggs from the broody broads last evening. 42 of then showed signs of development at various stages so I plunked them in the 'bator. Worst case scenario, they all go in the trash July 5th I suppose.

Still missing all the ameraucauna eggs. Don't know if she's just on strike or stashing them.

Probably stashing them, I'm sure. I've already let three broody's hatch out eggs, and have been fending off more girls that want to go broody every since. Including the one Dark Cornish that went broody first and has gone back to laying. Then it was a Jersey Giant. The newest one is a second Bresse hen trying to go broody.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Probably stashing them, I'm sure. I've already let three broody's hatch out eggs, and have been fending off more girls that want to go broody every since. Including the one Dark Cornish that went broody first and has gone back to laying. Then it was a Jersey Giant. The newest one is a second Bresse hen trying to go broody.

I had a barred rock and an EE go broody at first, then my silkie. 2 of the 3 hatched chicks that are in the brooder (hybrids, my roo is a blue bresse) Now it's both of my svart honas, and 2 of my bresse girls. They keep fighting over the nest and someone's killing newly hatched chicks, so I decided it was time to intervene.

 

[azurbanclucker]

On a related note, with the heat as high as it is now, do y'all let the girls sit eggs or do you bring them in an incubate? Seems like 105+ would not be optimal for incubation, not to mention the girls sitting in the heat all day. I think we're in for a long hot summer, so want to make sure i"m planning ahead.

 

[FeatherPugs]

I try to break my broody as soon as I can. I have one girl who seems is always broody that I knock out of the nest three four times a day!! I don't need any more chickens right now and the heat is a true factor for all of us.

 

[nicollee]

On a related note, with the heat as high as it is now, do y'all let the girls sit eggs or do you bring them in an incubate? Seems like 105+ would not be optimal for incubation, not to mention the girls sitting in the heat all day. I think we're in for a long hot summer, so want to make sure i"m planning ahead.

I've only had one broody hen that i provided eggs for, last summer I kept kicking her off the nest, finally at the end of last August I got her eggs, the results were dissapointing.. 8/10 eggs started, two hatched, one chick was disabled, two shrink wrapped before I knew how to deal with it....

 

[cactusrota]

On a related note, with the heat as high as it is now, do y'all let the girls sit eggs or do you bring them in an incubate? Seems like 105+ would not be optimal for incubation, not to mention the girls sitting in the heat all day. I think we're in for a long hot summer, so want to make sure i"m planning ahead.

Well, at that point if the nest is in a good location the hens body can help insulate the eggs from the heat, since her body heat is self regulating. But right now I have too many tubs of water set out for the birds that the chicks would find some way to drown. Plus I already have too many chicks as it is.
Two different hens that wouldn't break broodiness, I just tossed them in the next pen over with my game fowl birds for a few days and the complete different environment broke them pretty quickly.

 

[azurbanclucker]

@cactusrota The coop's shaded by our lemon tree and I have the access hatch to the nest boxes propped open to get some additional cooling and misting in there for the girls. I just wasn't sure if it was too hot to even let them sit on eggs after it hits about 105. There are still things I'm a total n00b at.