Arizona Chickens

[Parront]

Prescott is so beautiful! I love the trees and grass is non-existent around here. I miss it.

Yes!
Better than the desert

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Is anyone here interested in a couple of the Double Blue Laced Barnevelder hen's? I'm going to go ahead and sell the 2 here that I have. Both of them lay brown egg's, but one of them has speckles on the brown.

Wow, I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat if I had a coop for them. I haven't even finished designing ours yet, slowpoke that I am.

I wouldn't mind driving to Maricopa to get good laying hens or pullets, maybe keep me in mind early next year if you have more to sell then?

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes!
Better than the desert

If the desert was a pleasant place to live like up there, too many people would want to move here. It would get pretty crowded quick.

Wow, I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat if I had a coop for them. I haven't even finished designing ours yet, slowpoke that I am.

I wouldn't mind driving to Maricopa to get good laying hens or pullets, maybe keep me in mind early next year if you have more to sell then?

I always seem to have some that I can sell over here, but I won't be getting anymore of the Barnevelder's. I'm mostly working with doing the Naked Neck's, but I'm bringing in Dorking's to mix with them.

 

[Parront]

If the desert was a pleasant place to live like up there, too many people would want to move here. It would get pretty crowded quick.



I always seem to have some that I can sell over here, but I won't be getting anymore of the Barnevelder's. I'm mostly working with doing the Naked Neck's, but I'm bringing in Dorking's to mix with them.

Dorkings might not like the desert heat. Dork x nn might be better! This big nn (that I have) x dorking might be a great meat bird for the desert. I keep and eat the non-NN, the desert peeps can have the NNs!

 

[BlueBaby]

Dorkings might not like the desert heat. Dork x nn might be better! This big nn (that I have) x dorking might be a great meat bird for the desert.

I know that. That is one of the main reason's why I want to mix them. I had wanted to get some before to mix back when @DesertChic from Tucson was hanging around here. It just didn't go my way back then, and then she stopped coming here. I hope that she's ok.

 

[Parront]

I know that. That is one of the main reason's why I want to mix them. I had wanted to get some before to mix back when @DesertChic from Tucson was hanging around here. It just didn't go my way back then, and then she stopped coming here. I hope that she's ok.

I know, I liked her posts & birds. The way I see it, you need to have the birds bred here, where it's cool. Then, raise them in the heat down there. Only half are NN, at best. In the winter, I send the NNs to you, you can get another generation in the winter when this area is under 17" of snow!

 

[BlueBaby]

I know, I liked her posts & birds. The way I see it, you need to have the birds bred here, where it's cool. Then, raise them in the heat down there. Only half are NN, at best. In the winter, I send the NNs to you, you can get another generation in the winter when this area is under 17" of snow!

Either that, or I will have to raise and breed them in the air-conditioned house in that spare room when it's hot.

 

[JennyHeidewald]

@BlueBaby Double Blue Laced Barnevelder hens: Argh! Dang! I wish I could, but I have no space! I was plotting to get some next year, but those are only "regular color" barnevelders. Are there photos I missed earlier in the thread? Out of curiosity's sake, how much are you asking for them? And how old are they? Maybe if I find a home for some of the current ones I have my mom will let me add two (my flock lives on her land)...*plotting*

No space is one of the hazards of Projects, I have chicks all over the place. I just brought a load of roos down to PHX last weekend, and we got stuck going back home ( PV area) in the backlog on I17. 2 hrs in the hot sun, I don't want to do that any time again soon! But I am going to have to do another run in a month or so, because my one hatch of 7 has what I think to be 6 roos. One I rehomed with someone on our way to PHX, one I am keeping, my frizzle polish cochin, Ruckus, I hope he stays nice.

 

[Parront]

@BlueBaby Double Blue Laced Barnevelder hens: Argh! Dang! I wish I could, but I have no space! I was plotting to get some next year, but those are only "regular color" barnevelders. Are there photos I missed earlier in the thread? Out of curiosity's sake, how much are you asking for them? And how old are they? Maybe if I find a home for some of the current ones I have my mom will let me add two (my flock lives on her land)...*plotting*

No space is one of the hazards of Projects, I have chicks all over the place. I just brought a load of roos down to PHX last weekend, and we got stuck going back home ( PV area) in the backlog on I17. 2 hrs in the hot sun, I don't want to do that any time again soon! But I am going to have to do another run in a month or so, because my one hatch of 7 has what I think to be 6 roos. One I rehomed with someone on our way to PHX, one I am keeping, my frizzle polish cochin, Ruckus, I hope he stays nice.

Nice to see another member from my area! It seems every time it is really hot, they shut down I-17! Last time I went to PHX I had to drive around through Wickenburg, at least I was moving. My husband called me to tell me the 17 was closed, or I would have been sitting, idling and running the AC for 2 little Naked Necks!

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby Double Blue Laced Barnevelder hens: Argh! Dang! I wish I could, but I have no space! I was plotting to get some next year, but those are only "regular color" barnevelders. Are there photos I missed earlier in the thread? Out of curiosity's sake, how much are you asking for them? And how old are they? Maybe if I find a home for some of the current ones I have my mom will let me add two (my flock lives on her land)...*plotting*

No space is one of the hazards of Projects, I have chicks all over the place. I just brought a load of roos down to PHX last weekend, and we got stuck going back home ( PV area) in the backlog on I17. 2 hrs in the hot sun, I don't want to do that any time again soon! But I am going to have to do another run in a month or so, because my one hatch of 7 has what I think to be 6 roos. One I rehomed with someone on our way to PHX, one I am keeping, my frizzle polish cochin, Ruckus, I hope he stays nice.

I have been chatting with @Parront in private messages, and I believe that she will be taking them. They are only about a year old.