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cavemanrich said:
Consider pellets VS crumbles. on your next choice of feed. Much less waste, and mess.
Another thing you may consider, and research some more. Fermented wet feed. There are benefits to it according to peeps that use it. A simpler possibility is just wet feed, and not fermented. I have not tried ether, but have read many peeps do utilize.
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Will the pellets work well for silkies and D'Uccles? I have a 50 lb bag of chick grower, should last until everyone is ready to switch to layer feed. (I assume once they are mature, even bantams go onto layer feed?)
 
Parront said:
Prescott here, just getting my first chickens in ~20 years now that we are retired. I had chickens years ago in Riverside, CA for several years. The biggest kid favorite chickens were the Orpingtons, especially because one would hatch chicks. My five-year-old could pick her up even off the nest she was broody on, never a scratch or peck. They do not lay as many eggs as some others, such as Leghorns. Easter Egger was a close second in the great pet category, Friendly & pretty eggs. Nice to meet you! Prescott and Sedona are pretty similar, climate-wise. The weather here is great for chickens! Not as hot as where I used to live in the summer.
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Thank you for the thoughtful response ! You’re the second person to recommend orpingtons :)
 
SedonaMidwife said:
Thank you for the thoughtful response ! You’re the second person to recommend orpingtons :)
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Not surprised on that! Orpingtons are very popular pet chickens. They are pretty, gold and fluffy. Friendly and calm, don't fly away, either. If they go broody, they stop laying. So that does cut down on egg production some. The fun factor of watching a mom with her chicks made up for it to us. Problem was all the little roosters that grew up from said chicks!
 
FeatherPugs said:
@AngBantamLuv 16 weeks you can change to layer feed - doesn't matter the breed.
@SedonaMidwife Most Orpingtons come golden but they do come in lavender too - I lusted for one for a short time!! I also like to raise barred rocks and austrolorpes for the cooler areas.
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Cool, thanks.. I was hoping that was the case, after I bought the 50 lbs of chick crumbles 😂 that should last until then (have 5 little beaks to feed).
 
FeatherPugs said:
@AngBantamLuv 16 weeks you can change to layer feed - doesn't matter the breed.
@SedonaMidwife Most Orpingtons come golden but they do come in lavender too - I lusted for one for a short time!! I also like to raise barred rocks and austrolorpes for the cooler areas.
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cool! I will have to check out which kinds are available near me! Lavender sounds so neat!
 
SedonaMidwife said:
Hi friends! Just joined BYC after lurking for a while :) I live in Sedona Arizona with my family and we just bought our first house 3 months ago so we can finally have chickens! (Even though it coincides with all the covid stuff I promise we were planning on homesteading long before all this craziness! 😂) I am in the process of building a coop and hoping to learn more about different breeds of chickens that do well in this northern Arizona weather. You can check out my intro post to learn more about me :) but I’d love to learn from more experienced people about which breeds work best and why! We are looking for medium to large hens who have good output and are docile enough to have around my kids and any neighborhood kids who might wander over. Any help would be greatly appreciated !
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Welcome to chickens and Arizona! I was surprised to see that Sedona is actually so much higher and cooler than Camp Verde, I used to live in Cordes and now back to black canyon. Anyway, I agree you can have pretty much any bird where you are due to your elevation. I've had a few different breeds from Privetts and some from Hoover's, and, FWIW, I got andalusians from both. The ones from Hoover's were much calmer and one even follows me around like a dog, vs the Privett andalusians were more like you'd expect a mediterranean bird. So, Anything you get from Hoover's should be quite calm, or at least much calmer than you'd expect just by reading the breed's literature. I had some of their amberlinks which were very calm. They needed a bit more help in the heat of Cordes than the sapphire gems, but were even calmer. The sapphires were also great, with just a bit less docile than the ambers. The sapphires had the larger eggs but the ambers had a much darker shell. Both those breeds (sex-links actually) laid most every day, 290 eggs per year. They all started laying about 18 weeks of age (hatched 11/14). Been wanting to try the midnight majesty marans, which appear to be a dominant black CZ, D109, and the calico princess which appears to be a chzech dominant red barred D459, they should also be calm birds that lay big eggs every day. Anyway, that's my two cents, and my wish list thrown in. Best of luck with whatever birds you end up trying!

**adding*** I also generally note, when there's a heat wave, the temps between Phx, Sierra Vista, Cordes, Prescott all get closer together. i.e, prescott doesn't enjoy a 20 degree cooler day during a heat wave, for your use in planning your coop/run and shade/cooling options. Similar, when we had the record cold/snow winter before last, Cordes was nearly as cold as Prescott where we usually would be 10 degrees warmer.
 
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