Arizona Chickens

[nuthatched]

I received a mutant today. I think it came from a sussex...
It's been so cold this past week! It was down below 40 at night in some areas up here.

 

[BlueBaby]

I received a mutant today. I think it came from a sussex...
It's been so cold this past week! It was down below 40 at night in some areas up here.View attachment 2334260

Keep an eye on the girl that layed that one. It look's like there's a reproductive issue going on there.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Those are pretty hens, Igor's Mistress! What kind are they?

Speaking of reproductive issues, I got three double yolked eggs in a week when I made breakfast using Walmart eggs. That's a bit off. Could it be something they're feeding their chickens?

I'm checking out chicken breeds, too. The Welsummer and Speckled Sussex look interesting, but this is high desert climate, and the temp is usually somewhere between Flagstaff and Phoenix. In general, you can add 12 degrees to whatever Flagstaff is and be pretty accurate. The Speckled Sussex looks like a cooler climate breed.

 

[igorsMistress]

Yes. I suddenly decided that I want all hens. I live far enough away from anybody else that crowing wouldn't bother anybody and am usually up before 5 am anyway, so rooster noise would not be an issue. It would probably give this place a welcome farm-y feel. But it sounds like the boys aren't that well behaved in addition to being noisy.

Roosters can be very nice. Just like teenaged boys they get a little crazy but that’s hormones and they grow out of it generally. They aren’t behaving badly they’re being roosters. Once you understand them and learn to work with them they are a wonderful addition.

 

[igorsMistress]

Those are pretty hens, Igor's Mistress! What kind are they?

Speaking of reproductive issues, I got three double yolked eggs in a week when I made breakfast using Walmart eggs. That's a bit off. Could it be something they're feeding their chickens?

I'm checking out chicken breeds, too. The Welsummer and Speckled Sussex look interesting, but this is high desert climate, and the temp is usually somewhere between Flagstaff and Phoenix. In general, you can add 12 degrees to whatever Flagstaff is and be pretty accurate. The Speckled Sussex looks like a cooler climate breed.

I don’t know, some sort of barnyard mix a friend found on the side of the road over the weekend. Literally in a box on a street corner in the heat.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I don’t know, some sort of barnyard mix a friend found on the side of the road over the weekend. Literally in a box on a street corner in the heat.

Oh no! Some people do horrible things to animals. Well, it looks like you got some nice birds, and that's a plus.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I'm actually looking forward to h

Roosters can be very nice. Just like teenaged boys they get a little crazy but that’s hormones and they grow out of it generally. They aren’t behaving badly they’re being roosters. Once you understand them and learn to work with them they are a wonderful addition.

I'm actually looking forward to having one, along with a flock. One of the neighbors has chickens, and the only way I know is that sometimes when I'm outside I can hear a rooster off in the distance. Inside the house, he can't be heard.

 

[igorsMistress]

Oh no! Some people do horrible things to animals. Well, it looks like you got some nice birds, and that's a plus.

They are sweet but they munched some plants so I’m going to have to protect those plants before the girls are allowed out again. Poor things, they were going to sleep with the metal rooster I have in the yard last night. Had to put them back in their coop and they don’t know how to roost I think. I’m training them to do so and at the same time training my chicks to do the same.

 

[CaroleW]

Does anyone have wyandotte ? How do they do in Arizona heat??

I have one Wyandott (called Monroe) she is a big girl compared to the rest, I thought she might have been a rooster she was so hefty and beautiful - I moved her and rest of flock up north when the heatwave started in Mesa. It's still gotten to 100 and a little above that even here up north. Monroe and rest of flock are doing great. They only started laying about the first week of August but not all laying yet. I get 6-9 eggs a day from about 17 hens (these were all hatched March 31 or so from a hatchery).

 

[BlueBaby]

Those are pretty hens, Igor's Mistress! What kind are they?

Speaking of reproductive issues, I got three double yolked eggs in a week when I made breakfast using Walmart eggs. That's a bit off. Could it be something they're feeding their chickens?

I'm checking out chicken breeds, too. The Welsummer and Speckled Sussex look interesting, but this is high desert climate, and the temp is usually somewhere between Flagstaff and Phoenix. In general, you can add 12 degrees to whatever Flagstaff is and be pretty accurate. The Speckled Sussex looks like a cooler climate breed.

Usually it's the younger hen's that have just started laying that will be laying those double yolked egg's until they get their system into correct swing. Maybe it help's them to stretch that vent out to lay a bigger egg. Nothing wrong or to worry about with that. As long as it's not what they call a lash type egg.