Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

I'm from Gilbert, Arizona!! Live in the suburbs near Highland High School, so it's been real interesting raising chickens!

Hello, and welcome to our Arizona state thread!

 

[Gxspenst]

I like the area of gilbert for shopping when I go to the valley area. Welcome tell us about your feather friends, what breed, etc. If you like

My two baby chicks right now are Rhode Island Red bantams! I wanna clock their age at probably 1 - 2 weeks old. Their personalities are already shining through so much, and I know i'm in for a treat!

 

[BlueBaby]

My two baby chicks right now are Rhode Island Red bantams! I wanna clock their age at probably 1 - 2 weeks old. Their personalities are already shining through so much, and I know i'm in for a treat!

Your's are in the same age group as the naked neck one's that I have been hatching out over here, then! Each chick seem's to have it's own personality.

 

[Gxspenst]

Your's are in the same age group as the naked neck one's that I have been hatching out over here, then! Each chick seem's to have it's own personality.

I love naked necks!!! Oh, and totally. Can instantly tell what kind of troublemaker you have on your hands by the first week.

 

[BlueBaby]

I love naked necks!!! Oh, and totally. Can instantly tell what kind of troublemaker you have on your hands by the first week.

Mine aren't the Naked Neck Turken's though. Mine are mixes that happen to have inherited the Naked Neck gene. I like them because they lay eggs well, and can take our hot temperature summer heat here better than some other breed's. Mine are not the bantie sized like your 2.

 

[meetthebubus]

Look to the west fellow chicken arizonans..
Rosa is coming!

P.s. @SonoranChick now I'll get the storms about an hour before you lol

 

[BlueBaby]

Look to the west fellow chicken arizonans..
Rosa is coming!

P.s. @SonoranChick now I'll get the storms about an hour before you lol

According to the Ak-Chin Accu-weather we should start getting rain over here in about 50 minutes. It's windy and very cloudy right now.

 

[Geranium]

@cactusrota i'm so so sorry about your chicks. How awful.

@BlueBaby i'm so nervous i'm going to end up with roosters! She'll be three weeks tomorrow, and still no pink. Fingers crossed.

It's getting dark and cloudy here! The chicken coop won't be done until next weekend, and the girls are outgrowing their brooder, so I set up their little outside pen to be a temporary coop. I'm figuring I can put them there during the day, then at dusk put them back in the brooder but i'm going to move the brooder to the back patio so they can acclimate to the weather. But no one is going outside until the hurricane is done with us. Right now a have a scrap of kitchen counter over the little dust bath area I made so it doesn't turn into a mud bath in the coming rain. I'll shade it when they're in there.

 

[cavemanrich]

Bad news, they all arrived dead. I didn't know until I got the tracking number after they were shipped that they were outsourced from Minnesota... If I'd known that I would have never ordered them. That's just too far and too much of a climate difference. Iowa wouldn't have been as bad and I'm sure they might have survived. I'm totally bummed, and after taking pics to send in with the email to them about it, I just can't bring myself to look at the little bodies to do anything with them.

Soooo sad..
I always thought that chicks were shipped Air Mail. The distance would be no different if Minnesota , or Iowa. (insignificant)
Maybe there was a mixup in the routing of the package.

 

[cactusrota]

Oh no! That's horrible! This is precisely why I never order chicks. I did it once and the two that died in that shipment haunted me. I'm so sorry.

This is actually the third time for me and the last two times were good experiences. First was Privett right over there in NM, and second was from Cackle in Missouri. Both orders the chicks arrive bouncing like troublemakes. I was thinking that this time of year it would be safe to order from Iowa, but that didn't work out like I thought...