Arizona Chickens

[Geranium]

I was out in the run yesterday at sundown and watched the chickens decide it was bedtime, and all go in the coop together and snuggle into a pile in their box. It was the most adorable thing.

 

[FeatherPugs]

@meetthebubus hope your feather baby feels better fast. I know most of my girls are somewhat hormonal! Don't look at me that way - peck That's mine - peck I want that nest - peck. It is a tough time of year for them plus the new girls are going what the heck did I do!! Plus it has been so, so wet. Not the usual sheet of rain then sun to dry things up but rain, rain, rain and dew, wet, dew, wet and so on for a few days after. Things are just starting to dry at my place after a downpour of all downpours the last time it rained. My rain gauge said it rained 1.5 inches in a 30 minute period - it was literally sheets (the desert is still squishy). My old coop roof - which was trying hard to leak broke. So now we can put up the tin I wanted in the beginning. This Sunday, I think - It'll take me all day to do a couple hour job but we'll get it done! AND I got the shade replaced after it was done in a couple rains ago. The PVC pipe was super old and the shade cloth got so soaked that it broke the PVC - crazy stuff happens after about 10 years! hahahaha! I used one of those canopies you can get at Harbor Freight for under a hundred bucks, took out one section and put it together with shorter legs, covered it with the shade cloth and done! DH didn't have to try to put one together with either PVC or wood and another hundred things that kinda go with all that stress. Chickies are happy with it now and will be really happy come hot sun time again. Stay well folks, enjoy the drying up days I know I am and I'm even looking forward to 90 degrees this weekend!

 

[meetthebubus]

@FeatherPugs wow you sound busy! Yes those girls can get grumpy I put up 2 new roosts for the eggers which helped them to stop fighting. Just them though the buffs fight at roost time no matter what lol

Poor Honey has a nasal infection or virus probably bc of the weather and that dew in the mornings, that or it's from all the winter birds that are here.
I put up a old CD inside the run to discourage those small ones that can get in and leave their droppings. That plus i leave water and old feed for them outside thd run and that stops them from coming in most times now.

I also have some other eggers that are sneezing and shaking heads so i assume this weather and getting dew on them every morning so I put oregano/cinnamon vitamins in one water, vet rx in another and regular water in a third ...gave some crushed garlic... praying it wont turn into a nightmare

I never had these issues with the buffs, but of course they stay INSIDE their coop

 

[BlueBaby]

It look's like we are all trying to do something out there in the coops and runs to fix thing's or cleanup while the weather is nicer. I was out there most of the afternoon. I think I finally got those ant's under control. I was happy that when I first went out there today I didn't find anymore ant covered dead babies that had been eaten alive. I still have 6 chicks out of 14 left from my last hatch.

 

[Diannastarr]

I hope that you get her to feeling better soon!

Hi Guys im back on with a new pc, the last newer one was not working well at all, so I got a new one just yesterday..!

 

[Diannastarr]

Welcome back! Happy to know you're able to chat with us again Dianna, we missed you

awwwwgeee thanks

 

[Diannastarr]

yes Im back , i had 3 pc's that went and I sent the last newer one back and picked out a nice HP I like it & its working great...!!!! life has been so strange not having a working pc geezer I hope every one is doing great...!! so take care all..!!!!

 

[BlueBaby]

yes Im back , i had 3 pc's that went and I sent the last newer one back and picked out a nice HP I like it & its working great...!!!! life has been so strange not having a working pc geezer I hope every one is doing great...!! so take care all..!!!!

I'm glad that you have one now that you feel works right for you now! Good to have you back here!

 

[meetthebubus]

This morning Honey is doing better, but now my precious Guava is wheezing!

I'm off to buy a dog cage to secluded her in I don't like keeping them in a plastic tub in the house, when she isn't putting in effort is very calm there is no wheezing and Piña was trying to kill her so she is inside until I come back with the crate to put her in inside the mansion

Fuzzy had wheezing this summer i took her in, gave vet rx one day later she was fine so im hoping the same for Guava (she is the bio mom of chulita, and can be seen jumping up on my lap full of Greek yogurt in that yogurt video )

 

[FeatherPugs]

@meetthebubus I have a theory for this and maybe I've said it here before. We raise chickens in a desert climate known to go 150 days without rain. So we have very little respiratory problems. At monsoons we have a really wet day we get coughs and a bit of wheezing. Goes away fast. This year we've had tons of rain so we have wayyyyy more respiratory going on. I have sneezing and coughs. As it drys out it clears up and goes away. It is the weather causing our problems - almost like they get asthma. My theory and I'm sticking to it!