Arizona Chickens

[meetthebubus]

here is when i first discovered the new hatch...

 

[meetthebubus]

and one more video after a few hours old, came out because it was over 100 that day

 

[SonoranChick]

and one more video after a few hours old, came out because it was over 100 that day

So very cute!! I am in love with the chipmunk markings. Is this chick (I think you said the name was Bolita but I might be remembering that wrong) around the same age as Picasso? And how is little Picasso doing?

 

[meetthebubus]

So very cute!! I am in love with the chipmunk markings. Is this chick (I think you said the name was Bolita but I might be remembering that wrong) around the same age as Picasso? And how is little Picasso doing?

Thanks, yes Bolita but it's a debate here bc everyone has a name they like here poor chick will have 3 names lol I like Chula or chulita (choo lah) meaning pretty and theres another vote for alphie short for alpha, the first chick hatched here.... you get the picture lol

Picasso had her outer feathers when she first got here so she must be a month older??...
She can run a bit now, doesn't have a limp just a funny walk now, flies a bit, loves treat time and desires to be out of her mini enclosure with everyone but I'm afraid for her safety still. So I'm waiting till she is bigger, bc the ee's do not peck each other that much, buff orps at least my orps are huge peckers, especially at roost but they can peck and i dont want picasso hurt until she can sustain a peck


Thanks for asking

 

[K Has]

My Buff orps have gone into molt so they aren't laying at all right now, I'm getting lots of Easter egger eggs, they are young layers so their shells are strong, very pretty chicks, I just hatched one myself 2 weeks ago. If interested private message me the following is one as a chick, and the rooster who is fertilizing the eggs
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Handsome fella

 

[cactusrota]

We have the outside kind too, and they have worked for us so far (over a year now)...but @BlueBaby is right, our weather is harsh on anything plastic so it's definitely something to keep an eye on. Knowing my chickens the first thing they would do if one came off is EAT IT

You can double them up too.. they're cheap enough.

 

[BlueBaby]

@cactusrota Hubby was online reading news sites today and one of them mentioned that they have been turning those California Condors loose up in northern AZ. Hubby said that they are a huge bird, and that they would probably go after free-ranged chicken's?

 

[cavemanrich]

@cactusrota Hubby was online reading news sites today and one of them mentioned that they have been turning those California Condors loose up in northern AZ. Hubby said that they are a huge bird, and that they would probably go after free-ranged chicken's?

I always thought that vultures go after dead animals,,,,,,

 

[BlueBaby]

I always thought that vultures go after dead animals,,,,,,

Me too, and that's why I asked @cactusrota because she work's that falconry stuff.

 

[cactusrota]

@cactusrota Hubby was online reading news sites today and one of them mentioned that they have been turning those California Condors loose up in northern AZ. Hubby said that they are a huge bird, and that they would probably go after free-ranged chicken's?

I've never heard of condors being predatory. They are normally carrion eaters. They are the biggest bird on this continent, though, bigger than our eagles. And not likely to come into urban areas.