Arizona Chickens

[cactusrota]

@cactusrota here's an updated pic of Nova.

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She looks gorgeous!!!! That mottling is really coming out this year, too! Very nice!

 

[BlueBaby]

I just walked my 2 smallest white hen's next door to the one's that I gave the pair for the early Christmas present. The cockerel is now a teenager trying to sow it's oat's, so I let them have these other 2 that can help him to learn manner's.

 

[13lue]

looks like we will have 4 hens and 4 roos so we will raise them up and see what turns out.

 

[starri33]

All egg's have yolks in them and are yolker's, even with the chick's that grow in them. That's why new born hatching chick's have to absorb the yolk.

lol, guess I'd better quit watching you tube.. just trying to learn all I can..

 

[starri33]

, it looks like I am fixing to be come a chicken momma to 22 more chickens..lol, a friend has someone that is moving, can't take her babies with her.. so I'm getting chickens. I do not have a separate area for quarantine, so it looks like a straight in with everyone else. if someone does stick out as sick, they will be dealt with as soon as I get them home. wish me luck and say a prayer for me, they'll be coming home either Sunday or Monday..

 

[BlueBaby]

, it looks like I am fixing to be come a chicken momma to 22 more chickens..lol, a friend has someone that is moving, can't take her babies with her.. so I'm getting chickens. I do not have a separate area for quarantine, so it looks like a straight in with everyone else. if someone does stick out as sick, they will be dealt with as soon as I get them home. wish me luck and say a prayer for me, they'll be coming home either Sunday or Monday..

What breed's are they and how old? Oh, and where will they be coming from as far as state or area?

 

[starri33]

What breed's are they and how old? Oh, and where will they be coming from as far as state or area?

They are coming in from Kingman, I'm in Golden Valley, so we're basically neighbors, from what I understand they are full grown and about the size of a bantam.. I've been taking it slow on my new coop build, but now have to put a fire under it..lol, I've found some folks that I've been hatching for that would like some of the girls, 4 to one friend and 3 to another, so that will leave me with 14 girls and a roo to add to my flock, lol.. if the 4 of the first hatch are actually hens, then I will end up with 30 hens and 3 roo's. One of the roo's might have to go. Got 6 currently in the incubator. I figure I'll add whatever I get from that batch to what I have already.

 

[BlueBaby]

They are coming in from Kingman, I'm in Golden Valley, so we're basically neighbors, from what I understand they are full grown and about the size of a bantam.. I've been taking it slow on my new coop build, but now have to put a fire under it..lol, I've found some folks that I've been hatching for that would like some of the girls, 4 to one friend and 3 to another, so that will leave me with 14 girls and a roo to add to my flock, lol.. if the 4 of the first hatch are actually hens, then I will end up with 30 hens and 3 roo's. One of the roo's might have to go. Got 6 currently in the incubator. I figure I'll add whatever I get from that batch to what I have already.

Well, good luck with them. My next door neighbor's husband is working up there in Kingman right now. They are the one's that I gave a few of my chicken's to.

 

[starri33]

Well, good luck with them. My next door neighbor's husband is working up there in Kingman right now. They are the one's that I gave a few of my chicken's to.

Thank you.. I hadn't planned on that many chickens that quick, but 30 is about the number of hens that I was wanting..lol.. so my new 24 count incubator is going to sit in it's box for a while..lol. Time for me to head for bed, I asked on one of my FB groups for left over paints for using to paint the coop, I will probably end up with enough to paint a 2000 sq ft house..lol.. so it's mix and match and see what I come up with, my biggest thing is just protection for the osb. I'll worry about making it perdy later.

 

[BlueBaby]

Thank you.. I hadn't planned on that many chickens that quick, but 30 is about the number of hens that I was wanting..lol.. so my new 24 count incubator is going to sit in it's box for a while..lol. Time for me to head for bed, I asked on one of my FB groups for left over paints for using to paint the coop, I will probably end up with enough to paint a 2000 sq ft house..lol.. so it's mix and match and see what I come up with, my biggest thing is just protection for the osb. I'll worry about making it perdy later.

Best to use a color of paint that will not absorb too much heat from the sun ray's in the summer.